Hello Girls, Guys
This is the first day to me with you, giving you a lesson about the MOST IMPORTANT THING that is needed in learning ANY LANGUAGE. But today, I'm talking about English. So, listen (read) carefully and with attention please, so you can master the whole idea.
Let's start:-
Your boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have. That's one good reason why he is your boss.
So, that if your vocabulary is limited, your chances of success are limited.
That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by conscious building up your knowledge of words. That is because the vocabulary of the person almost STOPS growing by the middle twenties. And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made.
No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do.
All that is real and it has been discovered that the most common characteristic of outstanding success in "an extensive knowledge of the exact meaning of English words"
The extent of your vocabulary indicates the degree of your intelligence. Your brain power will increase as you learn to know more words. Here's the proof.
Two classes in a high school were selected for an experiment. Their ages and environment were the same. Each class represented an identical cross-section of the community. One, the control class, took the normal courses. The other class was given special vocabulary training. At the end of the period the marks of the latter class surpassed those of the control group, not only in English, but in every subject, including mathematics and sciences.
So we can see now that the study of words is not to do with literature. Words are your tools of thoughts. You CAN NOT even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go down this afternoon, you will find that you are saying to yourself: "I think I will go down this afternoon". You can NOT make a simple decision as this without using words. Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking. Your words are all that we, your friends, have to know and judge you by. You have no other medium for telling us your thoughts for convincing us, persuading us, giving us orders.
Words have changed the direction of history. Words can also change the direction of your life. They have often raised a man from mediocrity to success. If you consciously increase your vocabulary, you will unconsciously raise yourself to a more important station in life, and the new and higher position you have won will, in turn, give you a better opportunity for further enriching your vocabulary. It is beautiful and successful cycle.
So, the last words from me (I'm Prof. Rathad M. = Queen of English) is:-
A short time spent on reading and learning words before turn the lights out each night is BETTER than irregular hour now and then. If you can find the time to learn only three or four words a day, I can promise that after a month you will have found a new interest.
Give the words FIFTEEN MINUTES a day, and I will guarantee at the end of the month that your reading and your conversation and your life will all have a new and deeper meaning for you.
For words can make you greater.
Your little sis.
Prof. Rathad (Queen Of English)
موضوع: أول درس مني ألكم عن اللغة الأنكليزية. 
2009-08-30, 18:45
