Be an English Language Expert, Life the Toughest School

ENGLISH WORDS THAT DONT HAVE PLURAL FORM

In English linguistics, mass or un-countable nouns have syntactic property; they cannot be counted using numbers. They do not have plural form and cannot be combined with an indefinite article (a or an) or be modified by a numeral. To use them you have to specify a unit of measurement. For example: 6.Luck 22.Sugar Furniture - 7.Greed 23.Money X - I have furnitures at home. 8.Honesty 24.Chaos ✓- I have pieces of furniture. 9.Love 25.Weather Sugar - 10.News 26.Racism X- I have sugars at home. 11.Butter 27.Patriotism ✓- I have cubes of sugar. Work X - I have works for you to do. ✓- I have some work for you. 12.Bread 13.Milk 14.Mud 15.Help 16.Advice 28.Curiosity 29.Cowardice 30.Bravery 31.Scenery 32.Livestock 1.Knowledge 2.Jewelry 3.Homework 4.Courage 5.Education 17.Water 18.Fun 19.Wisdom 20.Silence 21.Tea DID YOU MAKE CORRECT SENTENCES WITH ALL THE WORDS? A Dictionary will be handy.

OXYMORON - 11)Open Secret

An interesting word 12)Tragic Comedy Oxymoron is a phrase that has two words with opposite meanings and its use make speaking very interesting. Here are some 13) 14) 15) Foolish Wisdom Liquid Gas Happily Married ly used. - commonexamples: 1) Clearly Misunderstood ARE YOU NOW AN EXPERT? 2) Exact Estimate 3) Small Crowd 4) Act Naturally 5) Found Missing 6) Fully Empty 7) Pretty Ugly 8) Seriously Funny 9) Only Choice 10)Original Copies

LIFE -

THE TOUGHEST SCHOOL You never know the class you are in, You never know the exam you will have next, and, You can’t cheat, no one has the same question paper! Prepare your child for the Road of Life.

BE INSPIRED

•If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life - Plato •Dream big dreams! If your Dream does not scare you, they are not big enough!!

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

•An Investment in Knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin •Value has a Value, only if its Value is Valued. - Bryan Dyson • When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, every

body will respect you. - Lao-Tzu

•Do not trust your position, it fails when you leave the Office. - Arnold Schwarzenegger •Confidence and Arrogance do not go together. Know the difference. Arrogance makes

you feel you are always right. Confidence is humble and quiet.

•Life is like a Coin, thrown up in the Air. You cannot really predict which side will turn

up. No one stays on top forever. It is just a matter of time and season.

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PARENTING EXPLORE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE SPHERES

*Jamila SHU’ARA

A parent is a person related to a child by descent, birth or adoption. A child is the result of conjugation from a man and a woman, but may be raised by one or both parents, or by grandparents. Parents nurture their child in line with societal norms. The pride of every parent is to watch children grow into healthy, happy, and exceptional adults. To achieve this, children need to be properly cared for, guided, loved, disciplined, taught, and encouraged through childhood to adulthood. Parenting is an incredibly challenging but intrinsically fulfilling experience especially when you watch your young children grow into responsible adults.

Behavioural Psychologists encourage parents and even teachers to expose children to different experiences as they nurture them through life. Successful adults use knowledge to their advantage in the world. Intelligence gives you knowledge and skills. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is a test in the cognitive domain, used to determine the level of: comprehension, memorization, recall of information and even the ability to solve mathematical problems. IQ gauges how we commit information into memory to logically answer questions, make predictions, or just meander the corridors of life.

The twenty-first century is knowledge driven and parenting is challenged by massive volume of free information, easy access to the Internet, Information Technology Tools and Gadgets, and globalization. In guiding children’s lives and career paths, parents contend with a tempting option of “recreating an exact chip of the old block” by making their children adopt their profession. In many African families, the child’s opinion hardly matter in career choices as financial support in higher education is a patrilineal responsibility. So, in the choice of career paths, innate abilities that could have been positively explored for economic gains are jettisoned by overzealous parents who insist on their way or the highway.

Psychologists and Educationists encourage parents to explore innate multiple intelligence options to guide the child’s career paths. This is based on the premise that everyone is gifted with different types of innate intelligence which if allowed to develop at an early age, adds value to life’s experiences as one gets older. These innate attributes include the under-listed: •linguistic intelligence (word smart) –ability to learn or use spoken and written languages, high capacity to analyze information and create products such as speeches, books, and memos. Career choices for ‘word-smart children’ include: Lawyer, Author, Journalist, Compere or Events Host. •mathematical intelligence (number/reasoning smart) capacity to analyze problems, carry out mathematical operations, and investigate issues scientifically, develop equations and proofs, make calculations, and solve abstract problems. Career choices for ‘number smart children’ include: Mathematician, Accountant, Statistician, and Computer Analyst. •spatial intelligence (picture smart) ability to understand, recognize and manipulate large-scale and fine-grained spatial images and patterns of wide space used by navigators and pilots, or for more confined areas used by sculptors, surgeons, chess players, graphic artists, or architects. Career choices for ‘picture smart children’ include: Pilot, Sailor, Surgeon, Architect, Interior Decorator, Graphic Artist. • bodily- kinesthetic intelligence (body smart) ability to manipulate the body or its parts to create products, perform skills, or solve problems. Career choices for ‘body smart children’ include: Dancer, Athlete, Model, Physical Therapist.

musical intelligence (music smart) –

the ability to recognize and create musical pitch, rhythm, timbre, and tone and the dexterity in performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. Suggested Career choices for ‘music smart children’ are singer, musician, DJ.

interpersonal intelligence (people smart) –

ability to recognize, understand and appreciate people’s moods, desires, motivations, and intentions to work effectively with them. Suggested Career choices for ‘people smart children’ include Salesperson, Public Relations Manager, Teacher, Psychologist.

intrapersonal intelligence (self-smart) -

ability to recognize personal moods, desires, motivations, and intentions and isolate important life goals and how to achieve them. Suggested careers to excel with intrapersonal intelligence: Therapist, Psychologist, Counselor, Entrepreneur, Clergy.

naturalist intelligence (nature smart) -

expertise in the recognition and classification of the numerous species (flora and fauna) and distinguish different types of plants, animals, and weather formations that are found in the natural world. Careers you could dominate with your naturalist intelligence Botanist, Biologist, Astronomer, Meteorologist and Geologist.

EVERY QUOTIENT MATTERS

Parents who expose children to different cognitive and psycho-social experiences give them a better head start to succeed in whatever careers they eventually choose. To do this, children must be given opportunity to learn from play. Sports, extra curricula activities, excursion, family vacation, trips, all engage and expose the learning faculties of children. Educationists encourage parents to apply a robust cocktail of cognitive, emotional, social and adversity quotients to prepare the child for the arduous Road of Life. Cognitive Quotient: develops child’s intellectual capacities and smartness as listed above. Emotional Quotient: supports the child’s ability to maintain peace with others, manage the use of time, be responsible, honest, humble, genuine, considerate and respect social boundaries. Social Quotient: helps the child to build, nurture and maintain a network of friends. Adversity Quotient: strengthens child’s psyche and the ability to withstand the challenges in life without giving up, jumping ship, abandoning family, losing the mind, or committing suicide.

When children are exposed to rich experiences while growing up, they imbibe the confidence needed to understand the implication of life’s choices. They naturally become sober, humble and accept maturational roles and responsibilities that make them into successful adults.

TAKE AWAYS FOR THE ROAD OF LIFE

From an early age, parents should teach: 1.Honesty - a person without candour is a loose cannon! 2.Respect and remorse - the best of character gives respect and admits when they are wrong. 3.Appreciation of genuine love - pure love is unconditional. 4.Industry and entrepreneurship - this is self empowerment 5.Dignity of labour - to each his own! 6.Service to others - life is sweeter when you make someone else happy.

HAPPY PARENTING!

*Dr. Jamila SHU’ARA, FNIM, FHEPAN, is the Director of Strategy & Special Duties