Let’s face the fact, reading is not an easy task. Especially, when you are just starting out. In fact most of us only read when exam is close or whenever we have a presentation. But what if you find a way to make reading interesting, what if there is a magic wand you can wave that get your hand and mind stick to reading and you just can’t wait to have that book in front of you. Yes, this is possible and the tips I will be sharing with you will help you do just that. These tips will work for even the laziest man in the world.
Let’s get to the point 1. Change your believe Reading is fun. Here we go. You probably looked surprised. Because you have had bad experience reading, and here I am telling you it is not only easy but fun. Most reading problems we have today are based on the perception that reading is hard. It is if you believe it is. You’ve seen reading as a stressful, time consuming work that require you to sacrifice all your happiness and deprive you of having fun. No, reading does not have to be that way. In fact you have to start having fun while you read. Which is why a change of believe is very important if you are going to be lazy at reading and still catch some fun. 2. Less hour means more productivity Break your reading into small sessions. Long continuous hours of reading is a bad habit you must stop. Research have shown that: for human being, the optimum level of assimilation while reading comes within the first 30minutes of reading. Your level of assimilation reduces as time passes. Not only the level of assimilation, but also the energy and the enthusiasm also decreases as time passes. Instead of reading for long continuous hours, that does good to no one, what you should do is to split your reading into sessions and then having short break between these sessions. Go have some fun during this short breaks. Play football, watch movie, talk to a friend or eat. 3. Read to forget Most of us make the mistake of trying to get every detail in a book at once. It takes time to assimilate 100% of the content in a book. Which is why you should cultivate the habit of repeated reading, read again and again. The only time you get scared is when you think you will not remember what you have read and you think that moment can be a waste of your time. The secret is to read to forget. If you read to forget then you will never forget and you will never be afraid of not learning anything from what you have read. 4. Know yourself Knowing yourself require knowing when you are best fit to read. Knowing when your brain assimilate best, and under what condition. Are you a silence loving reading type or a noise loving reading guru? For me it has always been in the morning and at night when everywhere is more silent. So you have to read yourself first to detect what part of the day and what condition you assimilate best. A good way to do this is to test your reading assimilation skills (RAS) under several conditions during the period of one week. And rate your performance under each condition on a scale of 1 to 5. At the end of the week you should have a good look of when you are best fit to read. 5. Never use a Reading Timetable Some of us have form the habit of forming a reading timetable, some will even hang it on their room wall to boast to friends, this is something I will advise you to quit. The only time table you should have is when to read, not what to read. Because when you have a timetable of what to read, you will be putting yourself under the pressure of having to read a particular course, whether you feel like reading it or not. What you want to do is to pick what interest you at a particular time and just read that. You might be thinking, how will I be able to cover my course work if I keep reading the same book? But the truth is, your interest will always change, the same way your taste constantly change for the type of food you want to eat. 6. A quick scanning please Scanning is one you might be familiar with. It is simply flipping through the pages of your selected book and reading the headings and sub- heading. Lot of people will neglect scanning before reading and guess what happen when they do, they waste a lot of their precious time reading irrelevant things that are not in line with their set objective, then they come out bragging about reading for X hours most of which was used reading irrelevant topics. This could be helpful to some extent but if you are like me, you want to get the most important detail in the book because probably you are working on a deadline. A good scanning habit can you save time. 7. Be Adventurous Reading is all about time and place. A good way to add some fun to reading is by being adventurous while you read. Being adventurous require you to move from one place to another. You might want to leave your desk to sitting under a tree or inside a car. This will save you from boredom that might result if you read on a single spot every time 8. Take a Break, catch some fun Taking a break will help you replenish the reduced enthusiasm and energy. While taking your break, you have to set the number of hours you will use for your break. Mind you, what you do during these breaks is very important and this will determine your level of enthusiasm. So you should engage yourself in exercise that get you excited enough that will make your brain feel relaxed. Some of the things you can do are: have a conversation with a friend, go see some sites that interest you, engage in some mind relaxing activities, eat some snacks, watch a short movie or watch small part of a long movie, if you can resist the temptation. Under no circumstance should you use more than your budgeted time. I will confess to you that I myself get caught in the act of using more time for break, it is normal and you can still survive with this but a good way not to overdo it is to always remember your set goals and what that means to you. 9. Learn the art of repeated reading As a student or employee, you have deadline to meet, test or exams to write or a presentation to give. Reading close to deadline will cause you stress, a lot of it, and will also put fear in you. As much as you can avoid reading close to deadline as you will always want to get every details at once which is very bad for assimilation. When I was in my second year in the University, there was a lot for me to cover at short period of time. So I realized this very early and I started reading before the school even resume properly for the session, this helped me alot and save me from the exam tension that most student get by reading close to the exam as I have read and re-read those books I was supposed to read. Each time you re-read a text, you get new details that you were unable to identify the previous time you read. You also get to retain the details you have gotten from your previous reading and this will serve as an assertion to what you are reading as you might have gotten the meaning wrong from the first time you read.  |
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11 Popular English Words We Use Incorrectly
Do you know that there are some words we use incorrectly and we don’t even know about it until today? Some of these words, you have used it incorrectly all your life that if you read about it now on this post, you would become embarrassed. These particular words actually mean the opposite of what we thought they mean to us, but they sound like they are not.
Let’s look through these eleven words many of us might have been using incorrectly all our life and we have to get it right once and for all:
1. Bogus (adjective): This word does not mean “big or massive” or anything relating to size. It actually means “not genuine or true”, “illegal”, “counterfeit”, etc.
Examples:
i. Tammy delivered some bogus documents to back up his claim, but he ended up not been able to defend himself.
ii. I didn’t pay him because that estimate was quite bogus.
2. Dupe (verb or noun): The way we use the noun form of this word is the problem. A person who dupes people is not someone who deceives or cheats people. A dupe is the real victim of deception. Do you understand?
Examples:
i. He was acting smart until he became the dupe.
ii. When I realized I was a dupe, I wept uncontrollably.
3. Terrific (adjective): This word is not the synonym for the words “terrible” or “terrifying”, but it means “great”, “very good”, “tremendous”, etc. It formerly meant “to cause terror” in the old days.
Examples:
i. I had a terrific feeling at the audition.
ii. He had a terrific performance at the dance competition.
4. Double date (noun)/double-date (verb): Many people believe this compound word simply means “infidelity” or “to have more than one love/date partner”. The actual meaning of this word is “a situation where two couples (say your friend and his/her love partner together with you and your love partner) go out on a date” or “to take part in such a date”.
Examples:
i. Tammy and Kenny are coming over to the bar, so it’s a double-date.
ii. We have been friends with them for many years: we’ve even been double-dating since college.
5. Restive (adjective): If you think this word has anything to do with “resting”, then you’re wrong. It actually means the opposite of that. When one is restive, then he or she is “unable to stay calm or still” or “unwilling to be controlled”.
Examples:
i. She was so hurt that she remained restive throughout the party.
ii. Let’s calm the restive ones before the issue escalates beyond control.
6. Talkative (adjective): I have also been using this word incorrectly. The word “talkative” isn’t a noun, so it is wrong to say Ibrahim is a talkative. It is an adjective which means “fond of talking a lot”.
Examples:
i. Curry is not very talkative.
ii. She was so in a talkative mood the last time we met.
7. Impeach (verb): This word is one of the most used words in our political climate and in public service. In the US, to impeach someone means “to charge a public office holder to court for a serious crime”, such as fraud; while in British English, it means “to charge someone to court for treason or another heavy crime against the state”. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean the persons charged had been removed from office. This word can also mean to “to question the validity of a practice”.
Examples:
i. He was impeached for dereliction of duty.
ii. The head of the department was impeached for not supporting the fight against corruption.
iii. I think Nigerians should impeach the immunity clause for serving governors in Nigeria.
8. Blood money (noun): The money received from rituals after murdering someone? No! This term means “money paid to assassins to kill someone”, “money paid to the family of a murdered person”, or “money paid to someone who provided information about a killer”.
Examples:
i. Barack was a popular local informant who got rich through blood money.
ii. Courtney received the blood money from the government.
9. Lousy (adjective): This word is often thought to mean “loud” or “noisy”, but it means “very bad”, “very poor’, “unpleasant”, etc.
Examples:
i. We had a lousy weekend.
ii. Mr. Trump is such a lousy person.
10. Borrow (verb): This word should not have been included in this list, but its meaning remains unclear to some people. Borrow means “to take or receive something from someone and it is expected to be returned”. Borrow is to take, that is it has to come from someone or somewhere else.
Examples:
i. Can I borrow some money from you?
ii. She borrowed my jacket but won’t return it – isn’t that unfair?
11. Lend: We all mix up this word with “borrow”. Lend means to “give out something to someone, which is expected to be to be returned”. The words ‘borrow’ and ‘lend’ are reciprocal pairs similar to give/take, teach/learn, open/close, etc. that shows both sides of a situation.
Examples:
I. I can’t lend you any more money.
II. She begged me to lend him that jacket after he borrowed my bag.
Never forget, borrow ‘comes in’, and lend ‘goes out’. You lend someone something by giving it to them; they borrow it by taking it.
In conclusion, these are some popular eleven words we use incorrectly in our everyday conversation, but I hope they are all clear now. We should learn to get rid of common mistakes in our day-to-day use of the English Language.
What do you think and which one do you use often?https://m.facebook.com/Emyamazinghttps://m.facebook.com/Emyamazing?ref=bookmarks
Let’s look through these eleven words many of us might have been using incorrectly all our life and we have to get it right once and for all:
1. Bogus (adjective): This word does not mean “big or massive” or anything relating to size. It actually means “not genuine or true”, “illegal”, “counterfeit”, etc.
Examples:
i. Tammy delivered some bogus documents to back up his claim, but he ended up not been able to defend himself.
ii. I didn’t pay him because that estimate was quite bogus.
2. Dupe (verb or noun): The way we use the noun form of this word is the problem. A person who dupes people is not someone who deceives or cheats people. A dupe is the real victim of deception. Do you understand?
Examples:
i. He was acting smart until he became the dupe.
ii. When I realized I was a dupe, I wept uncontrollably.
3. Terrific (adjective): This word is not the synonym for the words “terrible” or “terrifying”, but it means “great”, “very good”, “tremendous”, etc. It formerly meant “to cause terror” in the old days.
Examples:
i. I had a terrific feeling at the audition.
ii. He had a terrific performance at the dance competition.
4. Double date (noun)/double-date (verb): Many people believe this compound word simply means “infidelity” or “to have more than one love/date partner”. The actual meaning of this word is “a situation where two couples (say your friend and his/her love partner together with you and your love partner) go out on a date” or “to take part in such a date”.
Examples:
i. Tammy and Kenny are coming over to the bar, so it’s a double-date.
ii. We have been friends with them for many years: we’ve even been double-dating since college.
5. Restive (adjective): If you think this word has anything to do with “resting”, then you’re wrong. It actually means the opposite of that. When one is restive, then he or she is “unable to stay calm or still” or “unwilling to be controlled”.
Examples:
i. She was so hurt that she remained restive throughout the party.
ii. Let’s calm the restive ones before the issue escalates beyond control.
6. Talkative (adjective): I have also been using this word incorrectly. The word “talkative” isn’t a noun, so it is wrong to say Ibrahim is a talkative. It is an adjective which means “fond of talking a lot”.
Examples:
i. Curry is not very talkative.
ii. She was so in a talkative mood the last time we met.
7. Impeach (verb): This word is one of the most used words in our political climate and in public service. In the US, to impeach someone means “to charge a public office holder to court for a serious crime”, such as fraud; while in British English, it means “to charge someone to court for treason or another heavy crime against the state”. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean the persons charged had been removed from office. This word can also mean to “to question the validity of a practice”.
Examples:
i. He was impeached for dereliction of duty.
ii. The head of the department was impeached for not supporting the fight against corruption.
iii. I think Nigerians should impeach the immunity clause for serving governors in Nigeria.
8. Blood money (noun): The money received from rituals after murdering someone? No! This term means “money paid to assassins to kill someone”, “money paid to the family of a murdered person”, or “money paid to someone who provided information about a killer”.
Examples:
i. Barack was a popular local informant who got rich through blood money.
ii. Courtney received the blood money from the government.
9. Lousy (adjective): This word is often thought to mean “loud” or “noisy”, but it means “very bad”, “very poor’, “unpleasant”, etc.
Examples:
i. We had a lousy weekend.
ii. Mr. Trump is such a lousy person.
10. Borrow (verb): This word should not have been included in this list, but its meaning remains unclear to some people. Borrow means “to take or receive something from someone and it is expected to be returned”. Borrow is to take, that is it has to come from someone or somewhere else.
Examples:
i. Can I borrow some money from you?
ii. She borrowed my jacket but won’t return it – isn’t that unfair?
11. Lend: We all mix up this word with “borrow”. Lend means to “give out something to someone, which is expected to be to be returned”. The words ‘borrow’ and ‘lend’ are reciprocal pairs similar to give/take, teach/learn, open/close, etc. that shows both sides of a situation.
Examples:
I. I can’t lend you any more money.
II. She begged me to lend him that jacket after he borrowed my bag.
Never forget, borrow ‘comes in’, and lend ‘goes out’. You lend someone something by giving it to them; they borrow it by taking it.
In conclusion, these are some popular eleven words we use incorrectly in our everyday conversation, but I hope they are all clear now. We should learn to get rid of common mistakes in our day-to-day use of the English Language.
What do you think and which one do you use often?https://m.facebook.com/Emyamazinghttps://m.facebook.com/Emyamazing?ref=bookmarks
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