H.S.C.

ENGLISH PROGRAM

1. Writing creatively from experience or imagination # PAPER – 2; QUESTION NO – 12

2. Writing an expository piece giving a description # PAPER – 2; QUESTION NO – 14

PARTY  Picnic Party  Birthday Party  Wedding Party/Marriage

Ceremony

DAY  International Mother Language Day (21st February)

Victory Day (16th December)
 Independence Day (26th March)
 First day at college
 First day of Bengali year (Pahela Baishakh)

JOURNEY  Bus/Boat/Train  Excursion (Pleasure trip)  Study tour

VISIT  Book Fair  Historical Place 

Village home

VACATION  Summer Vacation  Winter Vacation

Celebrating cultural program in college campus.

Describing a social event of ours in abroad.
Writing about Bangladeshi culture, People, Weather, Food habit.

PROBLEM  Population problem  Gender discrimination

 Natural calamity (flood)  Greenhouse effect
 Cutting tree (deforestation)  Unfair means in exam
 Environmental pollution (sound/water)  Arsenic menace
 Dowry system  Price hike/rise/spiral
 Street accident  Child labor
 Removing illiteracy  Traffic jam
 Load shedding  Green House Effect
 COURSE INSTRUCTOR: S. S. SAURAV
BBA; UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA
410, EAST GORAN, DHAKA. CONTACT: 0189854855, 0152372226.

eNgLiSh QuOtAtIoN

 CHILDHOOD MEMORIES:
1. “Time marches on but memories stays
Torturing silently the rest of our days.”
-----Lord Tennyson
2. “Bliss was in it that dawn to be alive
But to be child was very heaven.”
-----William Wordsworth
3. “I doubled if I should ever come back
I shall be telling all this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages … … …”
-----Robert Frost
 MEMOREBLE EVENT IN LIFE:
1. “But what of all your other days?
Just stop and think a minute
Doesn’t every single one
Have something golden in it?”
2. “Man could not forget his glorious and joyous past. It is coherent
really.”
-----M. K.
Rawlings
 TREE PLANTATION/DEFORESTATION:
1. “I favor forest,
For it helps me discover my soul-
A very mysterious animation.”
 -----M. K. Rawlings
2. “There is a great relationship between man and forest,
for forest sings the song of man’s soul.”
-----John Keats
3. “This is the dead land. This is the cactus land.”
-----T. S. Eliot
 SCIENCE: WONDERS/BLESSINGS:
1. “Science is reality,
Science is bonafide,
Science is your constant friend,
Science is always creative.”
-----Albert Einstein
2. “The whole civilization has been glorified and enriched
with the wonders of science.”
-----Burtrand Russell
 DIGNITY OF LABOR:
1. “The dignity of labor makes a man self-confident and high
ambitious. So, the evaluation of labor is essential.”
-----Virgil
 WINTER MORNING:
1. “The winter morning to be is a great wonder,
As it enlightens my mind, heart and soul.”
-----M. K. Rawlings
 DISCIPLINE:
1. “Discipline is the key stone to success which is
compulsory to follow to balance the systems.”
-----Napoleon Bonaparte
2. “Discipline maintains systems,
Systems maintain development,
Development vibrates human life.
So, discipline must be followed.”
-----M. K. Gandhi
 PRICE HIKE:
1. “The increasing of price is a destructive sign in the constructive
economy.”
-----Henri Fayol

2. “The fluctuation of rate is not desirable,

stabilized rate is a boon,
and increasing rate is a bona.”
-----Paul Samuelson
 TRAVELLING/VISIT TO HISTORICAL PLACE:
1. “Travelling makes one know the mystery of lord’s creation,
Travelling gets us self-confident.”
-----Ibn-I-Batuta
2. “Travelling is universal,
Travelling is educative,
Travelling is inspiring.”
-----Marcopolo
 MOONLIT NIGHT:
1. “Although it’s lonely night
It is moon-lit night
I find myself,
To me, it’s a great natural help.”
-----William Wordsworth
2. “Nights of natural beauty focus a silhouette on me,
I remember the feelings of a moon-lit night
I salute
I light might.”
-----John Keats
 AIM IN LIFE:
1. “If you plan for a year, saw a seed,
If you plan for a decade, plant a plant,
If you plan for a century, teach the people.”
-----Chinese proverb
 FAVORITE HOBBY:
1. “God Almighty first planted a garden and indeed it is the purest
of human pleasures.”
-----Francis Bacon
 PHYSICAL EXERCISE:
1. “Build up your body, if you want to build up your mind.”
-----Ancient Greek slogan
2. “Health is the greatest of all possessions;
a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.”
--- --- Bickerstaff

 POSTMAN:
1. “Post man, post man, don’t be late,
Pass the letter over the gate.”
----- (Rhyme)
 GLOBALISATION:
1. “Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.”
----- Rousseau
 ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION:
1. “Environment pollution is a great threat to the existence of living
beings on the earth.”
-----Peter Walliston
2. The contamination of the atmosphere has victimized normal
existence which must be eradicated for our betterment.”
-----Almond and Coleman
3. “Ecology is the study of structure and function of nature.”
-----E. Odum (1963)
4. “Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and
abundance of organisms.”
-----Andrewarth (1961)
5. “Ecology is the scientific study of the interactions that determine the
distribution and abundance of organisms.”
-----Charles J. Krebs (1994)
6. Water pollution occurs when the water is altered in composition
or condition directly or
indirectly as a result of the activities of man.”
-----Key (1956)
 POPULATION PROBLEM:
1. “Optimum population is a boon. Over population is a bane.”
-----Aristotle
 2. “Man might do anything good for man, if he lies in an optimum
level.”
-----Source: Human Resource
Development
3. “Man multiplies like mice in a barn.”
-----Cantillon
4. “By nature human food increases in a slow arithmetical ratio,
man himself increases in a quick geometrical ratio.”
-----Thomas Robert Malthus

 INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY:

1. “This day will help to raise awareness among the nations of the world about
the enduring value of their languages.”
----- Kofi Anan: Secretary General, UN

 GENDER DISCRIMINATION:
1. “Half of all things that are good and great on earth are done by men and
another half are done by women.”
----- Kazi Nazrul Islam
 CULTURE:
1. “Education is a piece of diamond and
Culture is the emission of light therefrom.”
----- Rabindranath Tagore
2. “Culture is related to life – So it’s semblance can’t be defined forever.
Like human life culture is also a spontaneous affair.”
----- Sunity Kumar Chatterjee
 CHILD LOBOR:
1. “Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.”
----- Robert Henri
 LOAD SHEDDING:
1. “Electricity is itself a great power that could easily vibrate the whole
universe.”

----- Michael Faraday

 TELEVISION:
1. “It’s a great opportunity given by science that television has enormously
contributed us in the formation of public opinion.”
----- Bill Clinton (Election – 1996, USA)
 INDEPENDENCE DAY: 26th MARCH:
 1. “Our Independence Day has been a golden factor in our life which
inspires us to raise our heads in high esteem.”
----- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
 VICTORY DAY: 16th DECEMBER:
1. “The Victory Day of the Liberation War brought holy exuberance for the
Bengalee which must be put into equipment.”
----- Dr. Kamal Hossain
2. “The holy spirit of the Liberation War could lead the Bengalee reach
the highest pinnacle of success.”
----- Anthony Masckurenhus
 DOWRY SYSTEM:
1. “Dowry System paves the way to woman – oppression.”
----- Jen Austin
2. “Dowry System is a hateable system which privilizes woman – persecution.”
----- M. K. Gandhi
 UNFAIR MEANS IN EXAM:
1. “Our general circumstances are responsible for our students’ being
corruptive in the examination.”
----- Dr. Md. Farasuddin:
(X – Governor, Bangladesh Bank)
 READING NEWSPAPER:
1. “Reading maketh a full man.”
----- Francis Bacon

 FRIENDSHIP:
1. “The noble mind’s delight and pride,
To men and angles only giv’n,
To all the lower a world denied.”
----- Samuel Johnson
2. “Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.”
----- David Grayson
 REMOVING ILLITERACY:
1. “ Illiteracy is ignorance which is the curse of God;
Knowledge the wing wherewith to fly to heaven.”
----- William Shakespeare
2. “Education rationalizes a man’s soul, heart and mind
Education basically flourishes the spine of any people.”
----- Plato
3. “Education is indispensable for it ennobles,
purifies and directs man’s advancement.”
----- Mathew Arnold
 FLOOD:
1. “Floods are destruction, constructive work is disturbed.
So, floods must be controlled by joint Endeavors.”
----- Flood Expert Team, SAARC
2. “Floods are perilous,
Floods are heinous,
 Floods are baneful,
To control floods is hopeful.”
----- (Nature scientist)
 NATURAL CALAMITY/DISASTER:
1. “Calamity is man’s true touchstone.”
----- Beaumont & Fletcher
 JOURNEY BY BUS/BOAT/TRAIN:
1. “It’s human nature to go, to see, to understand.” (text page-120)
2. “Life is an adventure- dare it.” (text page-120)

 VALUE OF TIME:
“I have defeated the Austrians mainly because they could not realize the value of
only five minute’s time.” - - - - Napoleon Bonaparte

 HONESTY:
“Honesty is the best policy.” ----- Franklin

 DIGNITY OF LABOR:
“… if any would not work, neither should he eat.” ----- (The Bible)

 PATRIOTISM:
“I love my life, true, but not more than I love my motherland.”---- Edwin Arnold