MaanZaa Language Club

🌸📚 Happy Teacher’s Day! 📚🌸
On this special occasion, we honor and appreciate the dedication, wisdom, and guidance of all teachers who shape young minds and inspire future generations. ✨
Your contribution to education is invaluable, and today we celebrate you. 🙏💐

🌸✨ Onam Ashamsakal! ✨🌸
Wishing you and your loved ones a season filled with joy, prosperity, and togetherness. 🌾💛
May the spirit of Onam brighten your life with harmony, happiness, and success. 🌺

— Greetings from MaanZaa Language Club 💫

MARCH 23 EXAM DISCUSSION ⬇️

📊 TASK 1: The table below shows the results of a survey of first-year students taking various courses at a particular university. It shows how many of the students considered various aspects of their course ‘very good’.

📝 TASK 2: Many people believe that it is easier to have a healthy lifestyle in the countryside. Others believe that there are health benefits of living in cities. Discuss both views and give your opinions.

Read this interesting write up about the veteran K. Karunakaran by Mr Tharoor.

NB: I'm not a politically biased person and this article has nothing to do with politics. Just enjoy the excellence of the language he has imparted in it.

https://www.theweek.in/columns/shashi-tharoor/2020/12/31/the-karunakaran-guide.html

🕳Farmer’s Well And Witty Birbal

Once a man sold his well to a farmer. Next day when a farmer went to draw the water from that well, the man did not allow him to draw the water from it. He said, “I have sold you the well, not the water, so you cannot draw the water from the well.”

The farmer became very sad and came to the Emperor’s court. He described everything to the Emperor and asked for justice.

The Emperor called Birbal and handed over this case to him. Birbal called the man who sold the well to the farmer. Birbal asked, “Why don’t you let him use the water of the well. You have sold the well to the farmer.”
The man replied, “Birbal, I have sold the well to the farmer, not the water. He has no right to draw the water from the well.”

Then Birbal smiled and said to him, “Good, but look, since you have sold the well to this farmer, and you claim that water is yours, then you have no right to keep your water in the farmer’s well. Either you pay rent to the farmer to keep your water in his well, or you take that out of his well immediately.”

The man understood that his trick has failed. Birbal has outwitted him.

Moral of the story: ‘Don’t try to cheat. You will end up paying for it regardless of how smart you think you are.

As the calendar turns to another year, the spirit of patriotism is reignited on the 26th of January, Republic Day in India. This auspicious day marks the adoption of the Constitution of India, a document that laid the foundation for the world's largest democracy. Celebrated with immense enthusiasm and fervor, Republic Day is a time to reflect on the values of justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity that guide our nation.

A fresh start is simply around the next corner. Cheers to a new year!
#2024

Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

S O C I E T Y 🙈 🙉 🙊

Idioms

People in society 🐜

📍 a self-made man - person who is rich and successful because they have worked hard, not because they were born into a rich family;
📍 the chattering classes - educated people who enjoy discussing social, political and cultural issues;
📍 a second-class citizen - someone treated as if they are less important than others in society;
📍 the grass roots - ordinary people in a political or sporting organisation, not the leaders;
📍 the silent majority - large number of people who do not express their opinions publicly;
📍 the (men in) grey suits - people in business or politics with a lot of influence or power, although they are not well known to the public;
📍 public enemy number one - smth or someone that a lot of people dislike or disapprove of;
📍 new kid on the block - someone who is new in a place or organisation and has many things to learn about it (informal).

Power in society 💉

📍 the movers and shakers - the people with power and influence;
📍 win by a landslide - win by a very large majority;
📍 rig the election - arrange an election in a dishonest way;
📍 the power behind the throne - someone with no official position in government or an organisation but who secretly controls it;
📍 being in the public eye - being famous; written about in the media and seen on TV;
📍 pull the strings - is in control, often secretly;
📍 the grey vote - the vote of older people (also, grey pound);
📍 Mr Big - the most important person in a company or organisation (informal);
📍 on the gravy train - used to refer to a way of making money quickly, easily and often dishonestly, usually through your position in society.

other ways to say ( scary)

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