Monday, January 23, 2017

Welcome to You On The Page: Speak and Understand English in 5 days

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Here, I made the page as a Notice that I want to sell the e-form of  the series of the book "Learn English Easily." List of the books are below-shown. I wrote these books eight years ago in the duration when there was terror of Maoist in Nepal.

SN 1           Speak and Understand English in five days 1
SN 2           Speak and Understand English in five days 2
SN 3           Speak and Understand English in five days 3
SN 4           Speak and Understand English in five days 4
SN 5           Speak and Understand English in five days 5
SN 6           Speak and Understand English in five days 6
SN 7           Speak and Understand English in five days 7

SN 8          Speak and Understand English in five days 8  

Details of the author

Receiver:          Nav Raj Adhikari , Ph.D.              
Designation:      Professor    
Detail address:  Rampur Campus
Organization:    Tribhuvan University
Country:           Nepal
Email:               navraj.adhikari@gmail.com


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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

NR Adhikari, Professor in Plant Breeding Department, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

You are welcome on the page 'NR Adhikari, Professor in Plant Breeding Department, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Please don't get confused by the name: NR Adhikari. In fact, any information affiliated on classes and research papers in plant science, genetics, plant breeding, English teaching, details of plants are published in my name: NR Adhikari, or Nav Raj Adhikari.

You can find some more information about Dr. N R Adhikari clicking HERE. 

Thursday, April 10, 2014

English proverbs


Proverbs are sayings of the wise people of our ancestors. They are very short and mostly single sentence. There are some proverbs in each language including English. People like using them because they are very short and convey very useful and correct advices. They are easy to remember and understand. They seem extraordinarily universal in every society giving advice to our friends and younger. Proverbs are one of the principal ways through which the people pass down their philosophy, experiences of life and wisdom from generation to generation. Proverbs preserve our most precious heritage.


Proverb settles arguments. In very disappointed stage of mind, friends and elders pacify younger and disappointed friends or younger telling the pertinent proverbs, the listener too become comfortable from listening the proverbs. Furthermore the listeners get correct guidelines for the coming days. Young to old age, uneducated to educated people can easily understand the meaning of the proverbs. The people are very interested to memorize and use them as guidelines for their lives.


Some proverbs are based on well-known fables or stories. Sometimes, unless one knows the fable or story he cannot understand proverbs and their practical implications very well. Some two proverbs may contradict in their meanings. For instance, one proverb says: "Look before you leap." This means that we must think once carefully before taking an action. But another says, "One who hesitates is lost," that is, unless we act in time, it may be too late for us to work. At the end of the passage you will see some known proverbs in English. Many of them are hundreds of years old no one knows who first told them.


Proverbs 1-5 1: Home is where the heart is. 2: In my own home I'm king. 3: Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. 4: Rome was not built in a day. 5: East or west, home is the best.


Proverbs 6-10 6: He that has no rest at home is in the world's hell. 7: A man without a home is like a bird without a nest. 8: He who is happy should remain at home. 9: He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. 10: Men make houses, but women make homes.


Proverbs 11-15 11: Home is where the great are often small and the small are often great. 12: It is neither wood nor stone, but heart, that makes a home. 13: A house is not home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. 14: Every cloud has a silver lining. 15: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Proverbs 16-20 16: He who rides on a tiger can never get off. 17: Don't count chickens before they are hatched. 18: A leopard doesn't change his spots. 19: The early bird catches the worm. 20: United we stand. Divided we fall.


Proverbs 21-25 21: First come, first served. 22: Look before you leap. 23: More haste, less speed. 24: Waste not, want not. 25: A fool and his money are soon parted. Proverbs 26-30 26: The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 27: It's no use crying over spilt milk. 28: He who hesitates is lost. 29: Rolling stones gather no moss. 30: Many hands make light work.


Proverbs 31-35 31: Out of sight, out of mind. 32: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 33: Something is better than nothing. 34: The burnt child fears the fire. 35: Don't put all your eggs into one basket. Proverbs 36-40 36: Experience is the best teacher. 37: Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing. 38: There is no new thing under the sun. 39: An empty mind is evils' workshop. 40: Do to others as you would like them to do to you.


Proverbs 41-45 41: Manners often make fortunes. 42: He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. 43: Neither a log nor a stork, good Jupiter. 44: The longer you look at it, the less you will like it. 45: Life is half spent before we know what it is. Proverbs 46-50 46: The lion is known by its claws. 47: A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. 48: You know good manners, but you use but few. 49: You never know what you can do till you try. 50: Kindness gives birth to kindness.


 Proverbs 51-55 51: I to-day, you to-morrow. 52: He that hurts another hurts himself. 53: When fortune smiles, embrace her. 54: If you have no enemies, it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you. 55: Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.


Proverbs 56-60 56: Still water runs deep. 57: If the old dog barks, he gives counsel. 58: Choose a wife on Saturday rather than on Sunday. 59: There is one basic cause of all effects. 60: An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.

Proverbs 61-65 61: An hour today is worth two tomorrow. 62: Birds of the same feather flock together. 63: Kill two birds with a stone and get the stone back. 64: Every bird likes its own nest. 65: An old man's darling is better than a young man's slave.

Proverbs 66-70 66: Seeing is believing. 67: Everything must have a beginning. 68: Well begun is half done. 69: Bees that have honey in the mouth have stings in their tails. 70: Beauty is but a blossom.

Proverbs 71-75 71: Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 72: A bad bush is better than the open field. 73: A danger that is foreseen is half avoided. 74: A rotten apple injures its neighbours. 75: He who has an art, has everywhere a part.

Proverbs 76-80 76: No joy without annoy. 77: Anger punishes itself. 78: If every man mends one, all shall be amended. 79: Anger and haste hinder good counsel. 80: To maintain is also advance. Proverbs 81-85 81: Actions speak louder than words. 82: Adversity is the touchstone of life. 83: Abundance of money ruins the youth. 84: Truth and oil are ever above. 85: He who goes borrowing goes sorrowing.


Proverbs 86-90 86: Where there is life, there is hope. 87: The word 'impossible' is in the dictionary of fools. 88: If I have lost the ring, yet the fingers are still here. 89: The money you refuse will never do you good. 90: Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverbs 91-95 91: A friend in need is a friend indeed. 92: Look at the North while going to the South. 93: Nothing is new under the sun. 94: Make hay while the sunshines. 95: Opportunity hardly comes twice.

Proverbs 96-100 96: Out of debt, out of danger. 97: Out of sight, out of mind. 98: He is well paid who is well satisfied. 99: Pain is past pleasure. 100: Next to God are parents.

Proverbs 101-105 101: Every path has a hurdle. 102: Patriotism is not enough. 103: My country, right or wrong. 104: The voice of the people is the voice of God. 105: Practice makes a man perfect.

 Proverbs 106-110 106: Plough deep while others sleep. 107: A drop of a poison affects the whole ton of wine. 108: It is easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar. 109: The proof of the pudding is in its eating. 110: Prosperity makes friends, adversity testes them.

Proverbs 111-115 111: Riches have wings. 112: No rose without thorn. 113: There is no royal road to learning. 114: They love dancing well that dance among thorns. 115: Like mother like daughter, like father like son.

Proverbs 116-120 116: Out of debt, out of danger. 117: Let praise come to you, don't run after it. 118: Never refuse good offer. 119: A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. 120: If you run after two hares, your will catch neither.

Proverbs 121-125 121: Rivers need springs. 122: At a round table, there's no dispute of place. 123: He that runs fast will not run long. 124: Scatter with one hand, gather with two. 125: The sea refuses no river.

Proverbs 126-130 126: If you advise others to keep secret, first keep it yourself. 127: Whatever there is a secret, there must be something wrong. 128: Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 129: Where there is a will, there is a way. 130: He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday.

Proverbs 131-135 131: Skill and confidence are unconquered army. 132: Who has skirts of straw, needs fear the fire. 133: If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. 134: He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity. 135: My son is my son till he has got a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.

Proverbs 136-140 136: My daughter is always mine. 137: All that glitters are not gold, many men their life have sold. 138: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 140: An empty vessel sounds much.


Proverbs instructs correctly and clearly. In very disappointed stage of mind, friends and elders pacify younger and disappointed friends or younger telling the pertinent proverbs, the listener too become comfortable from the proverbs and get correct guidelines too.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Grasp text well or Grasping English text well



It is the page of the "Grasp text well or Grasping English text well. You are welcome at the page. Practicing some of the exercises will help develop your intelligence and grasp English text well. It is for to non-native English learners.


For non-native English learning young and adult students and candidates, I designed four sections of grasping text of English well. They four sections of grasping text well are reading well, learning well, understanding well and grasping text well. Although the titles of the pages or title of the subsections look different but practice of all these four sections improves the grasping skill well.


If you are not native English learners; I strongly say and insist you to practice the four lessons and repeat these lessons when you feel to acquire the traits and skill necessary or when you feel lacking the skill.

Grasp text well (subsec 1):
Learning English well (subsec 2):
Reading English well (subsec 3):
Understanding English well (subsec 4):

The practice of the grasping text of English well helps you acquire the skill of grasping English well. Many have written theories and steps to improve the reading skill, but I designed practical lessons to improve the young as well as adult students and candidates grasping English text well.

Although the practice lesion looks time consuming; but, it certainly improves the English grasping skill extraordinarily. You too will be surprised after practice of the subdivided sections of the grasping English text well. Here grasping English text well is meant for grasping the text of English well.

Review of some structure types
1.Read the following sentences with continuous tenses and their transformations into Wh-questions.
* Nitrogen fertilizers are improving the yield of our crops.
What are improving the yield of our crops? Nitrogen fertilizers.
What are nitrogen fertilizers doing? Improving the yield of our crops.
What fertilizers are improving the yield of our crops? Nitrogen fertilizers.
What are the nitrogen fertilizers improving? Our crops.
* The tall man was helping the lady in the office.
Who was helping the lady in the office? The tall man.
Who(m) was the tall man helping? The lady in the office.
Which man was helping the lady in the office? The tall man.
What was the tall man doing? Helping the lady in the office.
Where was the man helping the lady? In the office.
2.Make questions for the subject and give short answer like the examples (*).
* Thomas Edison was selling newspapers and magazines on the trains.
Who was selling newspapers and magazines on the trains?
Thomas Edison was. (Thomas Edison.)
* Buses are going to Kathmandu every day.
What are going to Kathmandu everyday? Buses are. (Buses.)
a) Thomas Edison was experimenting.
b) Trains are leaving for New Delhi every day.
c) Mr. Adhikari was teaching mathematics when he was young.
d) Sneha is cooking food in the kitchen.
e) Planes are flying to Kathmandu every day.
f) The housewives of my neighbor are shopping in the market.
g) The young children are playing football now.
h) Buses, cars and other automobiles are moving in the highway nowadays.
i) Edison's inventions are helping us nowadays.
j) Birds were flying in the sky in the evening.
k) The farmers were using threshing machine to thresh and store rice in last November.


3.Make questions for verbs of the sentences of exercise 9 and give short answer like the examples (*) to acquire the trait of grasping text well.
*Thomas Edison was selling newspapers and magazines on trains.
What was Thomas Edison doing?
He was selling newspapers and magazines on trains.
*Buses are going to Kathmandu every day.
What are the buses doing? They are going to Kathmandu every day.
4.Make questions for the subject in the following sentences and give short answer like the examples (*) to acquire the trait of grasping text well.
* The young girls were selling newspapers.
Which girls were selling newspapers? The young ones were.
* Diesel automobiles are going to Kathmandu.
Which automobiles are going to Kathmandu? Diesel automobiles.
a) The young man was teaching mathematics.
b) Maiya's mother was cooking food in the kitchen.
c) Small planes are flying to Kathmandu every day.
d) Local people were going shopping.
e) The young children are playing football now.
f) Petrol driven buses, cars and light vehicles are moving in the streets of Kathmandu.
g) The bus staff was helping the passengers to unload their luggage.
h) Edison's inventions are helping people now.
5.Make questions for the objects of the sentences of exercise 4 like the examples (*).
The young girls were selling newspapers.
What were the young girls selling? Newspapers.
Diesel automobiles are going to Kathmandu.
Where are diesel automobiles going? Kathmandu.


6.Make questions for the verbs of the sentences of exercise 4 like the examples (*). It will help to acquire the trait to grasp text well.
The young girls were selling newspapers.
What were the young girls doing? Selling newspapers.
Diesel automobiles are going to Kathmandu.
What are diesel automobiles doing? Going to Kathmandu.


7.To acquire the trait of grasp texts well, do exercise making questions for the object complements like the examples (*).
* The young man was teaching in the auditorium.
Where was the young man teaching? In the auditorium.
* Small planes are flying to hills and mountains of Nepal everyday.
When are the small planes flying to hills of Nepal? Everyday.
a) The young girls were selling newspapers in the bus station.
b) Diesel engine automobiles are going to Kathmandu everyday.
c) His parents are living in Pokhara.
d) The bicycle was standing in the second floor.
e) Thomas Edison was experimenting in his house.
f) The students will be staying at home during the storm.
g) His father will be arriving home at six o'clock.
h) The men were talking and smoking at the bus stoppage.
i) My friends are studying English at school.
j) The writer kept writing more books during his cream period of his life.

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Learning English well



It is the page of the "Learning English well". You are welcome at the page. For sections are kept serially in the blog.

Grasp text well (subsec 1):
Learning English well (subsec 2):
Reading English well (subsec 3):
Understanding English well (subsec 4):

8. Read the following sentences with perfect verb forms and their transformations into Wh-questions to acquire the trait of learning English well.

* The bus has left.
What has left? The bus.
What has the bus done? It has left.
* All the boys and girls had worked for the team work before the final exam.
Who had worked for the teamwork before the final exam?
All the boys and girls.
When had all the boys and girls worked? Before the final exam.
What had the boys and girls done before the final exam?
They all worked for the teamwork.
* The most important message had been sent at nine o'clock.
Which message had been sent at nine o'clock? The most important one.
When had the most important message sent? At nine o'clock.
What had been done to the most important message? It had been sent.
* The new students have been practising basketball at school today?
Who has been practising basketball at school today? The new students.
What have the new students been practising at school today? Basketball.
What have the new students been doing at school today?

Practicing basketball.
Where have the new students been practising basketball today? At school.
When have the new students been practising basketball at school? Today.

9.Make questions for subject of the following sentences like the examples and answer them in short. This oral practice session helps improve the skill of learning English well.
* Prakash had worked hard. Who had worked hard? Prakash.
* The big mango tree had been shaking. What had been shaking?
The big mango tree.
a) The old bus had travelled fast.
b) Prakash had been reading newspapers.
c) Maiya's father had planted some beans.
d) My friends had arrived.
e) His mother had been cooking food.
f) His brother had reached the market.
g) Prakash was watching the crowd very eagerly.
h) The wood houses had been burning.

10.Make question for the verbs in the following sentences and answer them like the examples (*). This oral exercise helps improve the skill of learning English well.

* Prakash had driven his bike carefully.
What had Prakash done? He had driven his bike.
* The big mango tree had been shaking.
What had the big mango tree been doing? It had been shaking.
What had been happening to the big mango tree? It had been shaking.
a) His ice cream had fallen.
b) The traffic police had whistled.
c) Albert Einstein had been writing equations of Theory of Relativity.
d) The bus had travelled fast.
e) His friend had reached school.
f) Mother had been waiting Father.
g) The wood houses had been burning.
h) Mohan had been walking fast.
i) His father planted beans in the kitchen garden.
j) The deer had come to the shade and been living in it.

11.Make questions for the verbs in the following sentences and then give answer like the example (*). This oral practice helps improve the skill of learning English well.

* His father had been planting beans at the kitchen garden on Saturday.
What had his father been planting? He had been planting beans.
a) Albert Einstein had written the equations of Theory of Relativity at home that year.
b) Prakash had been visiting Bhaskar in his room this morning.
c) People had been buying fruits and newspapers at the bus stoppage everyday.
d) The young Albert Einstein had bought a few books of mathematics from the market on that year.
e) Albert Einstein had been deriving equations of mass-energy relation at home that year before.
f) Thomas Edison had been working to invent a movie camera in his laboratory before 1900.
g) He had been reading a book about science at home on Sunday.
h) He had sent a message to his friend in town that night.
i) My friend had been studying English at school during the schooling period.
j) Thomas Edison had been examining electric wires at home on Monday.
k) Albert Einstein had been playing with a magnetic compass at home when he was young.
l) Prakash had sent fifty coins of silver each of ten grams to Pokhara to his mother.
m) Einstein had written some equations to explain photo electricity for which he got Nobel Prize.
n) Albert Einstein had asked the university laboratory the address of his apartment when he forgot his address to reach there in the evening one day.
o) The university laboratory replied Albert Einstein that Albert had said them not to give his phone number and address to anyone since he had been busy for those days.

12.Make questions for the objects in the sentences of exercise 11 and give answer to it like the example (*).
* His father had been planting beans at the kitchen garden on Saturday.
Where had his father been planting beans? At the kitchen garden.
When had his father been planting beans? On Saturday

13.Read the following sentences with modals and partial modals with their transformations into Wh-questions. This practice helps improve the skill of learning English well.

* The children can go to school.
Who can go to school? The children.
Where can the children go? To school.
* Albert intended to study mathematics and physics.
Who intended to study mathematics and physics? Albert.
What did Albert intend to study? Mathematics and Physics.
* The bus conductor should have helped the passengers yesterday.
Who should have helped the passengers yesterday? The bus conductor.
Who(m) should the bus conductor have helped? The passengers.
When should the bus conductor have helped the passengers? Yesterday.

14.Make question from the following statements like the examples (*). This oral step helps improve the skill of learning English well.

* The magazines should contain news and views.
What should contain the news and views? The magazines.
* My friend might have helped my parents.
Who might have helped my parents? My friend.
a) His brother might have the book.
b) That bag must have contained the book.
c) The bus will have carried children, young men, women and old age people.
d) His father planned to plant beans.
e) Diwakar might have studied those science textbooks.
f) He may have bought the science magazines.
g) Prakash would rather have seen the movie.
h) Bhaskar must have helped his friend, Prakash.
i) He hoped to surprise Mr. Prakash.
j) The child might have destroyed the toy.

15.Make questions for the object in the following statements like the example (*). The oral practice builds your learning English.
* The magazines should contain news and views.
What should the magazines contain? News and views.
* My friend might have helped my parents.
Who(m) might my friend have helped? My parents.
a) His brother might have the book.
b) That bag must have contained the book.
c) The bus will have carried children, young men, women and old age people.
d) His father planned to plant beans.
e) Diwakar might have studied those science textbooks.
f) He may have bought the science magazines.
g) Prakash would rather have seen the movie.
h) Bhaskar must have helped his friend, Prakash.
i) He hoped to surprise Mr. Prakash.
j) The child might have destroyed the toy.