0001-ENGLISH: Skills / Words / Structures

1. How to learn : The most important point in learning a language is to learn the techniques of learning. There are many techniques to be learned such as how to learn a new word, how to use the word and how to learn a rule of grammar and so on.

There are many questions as I know grammar or word but I can't use it, When I need a particular word or structure, it is not used at the right moment. LEARN TO LEARN is the ultimate solution. In many cases, the problem is attitude. You need to think big. Today, you live in a global village. If you feel that you need world-class English, you can learn faster. If you are learning to use English effectively, have patience and work hard for the long term.

2.Words: A word has its own world. First, it needs your help. If the word is new for you, it needs more help and attention. If you want that the word should come to serve you whenever you need it. Don't challenge the existence of the word. Help the word to be helped for your whole life.

Check the words you have not used in last one or two years:
fortunate, unfortunate, possible, probable. certain, sure, delighted, dismayed, glad, happy,
pleased, relieved, sad, sorry, able, unable, apt, inclined, liable, prone, prepared, reluctant,
prompt, quick, slow, convenient, dangerous, difficult, easy, hard, possible, impossible, safe,
unsafe, advisable, inadvisable, desirable, essential, good, important, necessary, unnecessary,
vital, cruel, generous, mean, selfish, wicked, clever, foolish, idiotic, sensible, silly,stupid, absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous, unreasonable, funny, strange, curious, astonishing, surprising, pointless,
useful, useless and odd.

3. Structures:
be is used to express physical or mental condition-
He was excited/ calm. They are happy/ unhappy.

With certain adjectives, e.g. quite/ noisy, good/ bad, wise/ foolish, it is possible to use the continuous form of be e.g. Raju is being foolish, which means Raju is talking or acting foolishly now i.e. the subject is showing this quality at this time but Raju is foolish, which means that
Raju always talks or acts foolishly.

Other words: annoying, cautious/rash, clever /stupid, difficult, economic /extravagant, formal, funny, generous /mean, helpful/ unhelpful, irritating, mysterious, optimistic/pessimistic, polite,
selfish /unselfish.
With some of these, e.g. stupid, difficult, funny, polite, the continuous form may imply that subject is deliberately acting in this way:

You are being stupid may mean You are not trying to understand.
He is being difficult usually means He is raising unnecessary objections.
He is being funny usually means He is only joking. Don't believe him.
She is just being polite probably means She is only pretending to admire your car /clothes etc.