The seed of achievement lies in the human mind'.

Q. "Disability does not mean inability". Our country has witnessed innumerable number of heroic personalities, who despite their disabilities have achieved success. It in turn displays the fact that in order to achieve anything all we need is courage and determination. Taking ideas from the unit "Achievers" and using your own ideas write a speech to be delivered in the school assembly on the topic "The seed of Achievement lies in the Human Mind" (120-150 words). You are Namit/Namita. 

ACHIEVEMENT LIES IN HUMAN MIND

Respected Teachers and dear friends. 

Everyone wants to achieve something in life. However, inspite of their disabilities, they are unable to work hard and they lose their hope and consider themselves as failures. In fact, it is their mind not body or physique that conceive various ideas. Human mind is considered as the most important part of the body that orders other organs to move immediately. As we sow a seed in soil that grows in a tree. In the same way, Our achievements also are depend on our mind that what it thinks, how and In what direction it takes the words and movements (the reactions and attitudes) of others. 

In order to achieve something, we have to make constant efforts and practise regularly. We should learn from our failures. We should have a positive outlook towards our life. To say is, we should have an arm's distance from the negative and demotivated people. We have to enhance our thinking capability and change vision of our life. That one should focus to ahead further in life by learning from past experiences one should learn and grab new opportunities instead of kneeling down and getting demotivated from past experiences. 

Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, Thomas Elva Edison, Einstein, Our freedom fighters and so on. Have you all ever heard these names ?? These are some famous personalities with disability who achieve something, who did marvellous job in their respective fields. At last, We should be courageous enough to face the challenges to achieve our goals. If we have courage and determination, we can achieve anything in life. As rightly said by our beloved former President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, "Never complain about the difficulties in life, Because a director (God) always gives the hardest roles to his best Actors". 

Thank you.

Hobbies

Q. Hobbies not only pass our time well, but also develop our creativity. Some hobbies can be very rewarding. What are your views on the issue? Describe them in the form of an article meant for your school magazine. You are Vishal/Vaishali. [Class VI BBC COMPACTA]

Hobbies                                                       

-By: Vishal

A Hobby is a favourite subject or occupation that is not one's main business. Hobbies are recreational activities pursued during leisure time. Hobbies play a very significant role in our life. Hobbies makes our mood pleasant and it brings joy to our life and refreshes us.

All of us are unique and are developing (or growing) continuously. That's why these differ from person to person and period to period. The best way to have a new hobby is to try something new. 

Hobbies widen the sphere of our cultural activities, give refinement to our tastes and show us the path that leads to our systematic mental and moral development. These pass our time and makes us creative. Moreover, it adds some charm, colour or zest to our life. Being involved in recreational activities they escaped us from stressful life which is helpful for them to become a star in their life. 

Reading, listening music, stamp collecting, singing, gardening, camping and so on are considered as some of the most common hobbies. Some of the hobbies are very rewarding but we should be very careful as it depends on the surroundings in which they live and activities they performed. 
Hobbies are the fondness of what we like to do. These should be in accordance with a person's interest. 

So, Being in interest, these provide enjoyment and pleasure. 

Q. Hobbies play a very important role in our life. They empower us in many ways. Write an article to be published in your school magazine on the topic 'Importance of Hobbies' within 100-150 words. 
Hints: 
• Improves creativity
• can become a successful profession 
• acts as stress reliever
• A productive pass time [davunit8.org 2018-19, Half yearly examination]

Q. Hobbies help us grow as a person. Hobbies help us to manage our leisure time more
productively. Taking ideas from My English Reader Unit-2 ‘Hobbies’ and using the
hints given below write an article to be published in your school magazine on the
topic ‘Importance of Hobbies’ within 150 words.
Hints: 
• improve creativity 
• make life more interesting 
• relieve stress 
• improve confidence and self-esteem
   [davunit8.org] [HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATION (2022-23) class VI]

Globalization and it's effects

 Q. World today has seen the emergence of a global market due to increased connectivity. It has led to various multinational companies opening up in India and in other developing nations. This is an era of globalisation which has brought many changes around us. Write an article in about 100-120 words on 'Globalisation and its Effects'. You are Naman/Namisha. 

Globalisation and its effects 

- By: Naman

Globalisation means linking the economy of a country with the economies of other countries by means of free trade, capital and movement of persons across the borders. The ultimate aim of globalisation is to look upon the world as a 'global village'. It has become very important for an economy to develop connections with rest of the world. This results in an unrestricted flow of goods and services, capital, people, technology and expertise among different countries of the world. 

It has significantly (in an important manner) increased the foreign trade in the India by adopting various policies. This has increased the GDP of our country. As a consequence of globalisation, there has been a considerable increase in foreign investments in India. There is an significant improvement in our foreign exchange reserves. It has promoted collaboration of foreign companies with many Indian companies. 

Further, globalisation has expanded the size of market. It has permitted Indian business units to expand their business all over the world. Now, multinational companies have no national boundaries. Indian companies are also doing their business in many countries. 

Globalisation has helped to promote the use of branded products, which led to quality improvement. It has enabled the flow of foreign technology which is very superior and advanced. It has also developed the markets of the nation. There has been tremendous improvement in various services like insurance, banking etc.and Electronics like Mobile phones, LCDS, LEDS in the country. 

Globalisation has increased employment opportunities for Indians by establishing various production and trading units of foreign nation, which has reduced the brain drain to the large extent. Moreover, the standard of living of the Indian population has improved. They are getting many products at reduced prices. 

But every coin has two coins. Globalisation has some negative effects. There has been a huge loss to domestic companies. Due to increased use of capital intensive technology, employment opportunities have reduced. Small and cottage industries are affected adversely. There is a negative effect on Indian culture and value system. Production of prohibited goods are taking place in order to earn more profits. Global companies drain talented persons of India to other nations. 

So, it is very essential to make wise conscious choices and maintain a healthy balance in the country. we need to chennelize our focus on the positive effects of globalisation and constantly cope with the negative effects.

Changing neighborhood

Q. Write an article in about 120 words on the topic “Changing Neighborhood.” You are Ankit/Ankita.
In your article you should
1. describe some important changes that you notice in your neighborhood- better transport, better homes, new shopping malls, more traffic, more crowd, more crime, less greenery
2. say how relationships between neighbours are also changing- greater distancing, lack of fellow-feeling, less interaction, less cooperation etc. [CLASS VII BBC COMPACTA]

CHANGING NEIGHBORHOOD

- By: Ankit

 (A neighborhood is one of the parts of a town where people live.) Neighborhood is the surrounding of the place where one lives. It is a place where people live and interact with each other. The people living in our neighborhood are our neighbours. Change is the law of nature. (Change is inevitable.) Life goes through a continuous process of change and neighbourhood is no exception.  Since the decades, there has been many changes in  my neighborhood. It has changed completely. 

To commence with, the major change occured in neighbourhoods is the development of better homes of people. They have designed their homes with increased and advanced facilities such as modular kitchen and modern or sophisticated gadgets. Every family member prefer its own personal vehicle as per era which has increased traffic on road and thus pollution level arrived at peak and lush green gardens are at its end. Moreover, there is an improvement in public transport system such as electronic vehicles are gaining importance day by day. People have now better transport facilities in their neighborhood to commute from one place to another. 

Population has increased manifold, which makes the neighbourhoods more crowdy. As a result, the demands of the product increases which leads to the rise of industries and thus, forests and greenery are gradually disappearing. Furthermore, open spaces are used up at very great pace. More and more complex shopping malls are gaining popularity with each passing day. Thousands of malls are set up daily from the low priced items to the high one or from the luxury items to the necessity. 

Another change occurs in neighbourhood is that the crime has increased manifold. Even in crime case their neighbours play a major role. Criminals in neighbourhoods have increased in leaps and bounds. Moreover, Neighbours have become more and more materialistic. 

Due to materialistic nature of neighbourers, the relationship among them is changing. There is greater distancing between two neighbours living to their next door. People take their neighbours as troublesome for them. Fellow feeling among them is getting vanishing with each passing day. They are becoming insensitive, pitilessness to people living in their locality. They don't like to interact, socialize anymore. Their nature have become non cooperative. 

Thus, So, we must welcome the innovative changes and discards unfavorable change from our neighborhoods. And we need to be proactive (ready before something happens) for any unfavorable change in our neighborhood.