Signpost or Discourse structure

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Signpost or Discourse Structure Think of it like a roadmap for your writing or speech before the reader or listener: Speakers and writers use special techniques (called signposts) to guide their audience through their argument or message. These signposts help connect what is being said now to what was said before and what's coming next. It's like creating a clear path for the reader or listener to understand. "Discourse structure" refers to the overall organization of a text, like how a poem, newspaper article, or speech is put together to convey the message. It's just like a big picture of how language is used to communicate effectively. Just like a roadmap helps you navigate/go through a journey, these signposts and structures help your audience follow his argument or message.
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First Incredible Shock of my life- Ch 19

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19| First Incredible Shock of my life


Read and mark the questions given below:

Death is the bitter fact of life and nobody can deny it. And it is a great a fact of life. Sooner or later everyone has to depart this world after leading the luxurious or miserable days of his life. I hardly got my shave and youth was appearing on my face cuts. The first irrevocable news I got when I was there in Mayo Hospital Lahore was when my father breathed his last. It was when my board result of secondary school was announced. I couldn't see my result. Previously, I had looked after my father when he got his very first heart attack. I was preparing for my board exams. And it was the second heart attack that my father had been undergoing since we left our town. 

Broken Road Leads to Lahore

On the way to the hospital, my father had got more severe attacks and was still unconscious when reached the ICU care. After about half an hour he expired and I was praying for his relief from pain. We reached home before the evening. The dead body was lying in the mid of the courtyard. It was seventh of July and we had to arrange an ice block to keep the body stay normal till the morning. Since then I have been learning and teaching what I have learned to survive in this beautiful world. I started teaching English, Mathematics, and Statistics. It was my survival and did my best to achieve it.

The death of my father gave me a chance to stand on my foot as my mother had a very meagre asset left by my father. She was most concerned with a suitable match for her four daughters. So I had to earn myself if I wanted to study further. I decided to earn to bear my expenses studies. And I got a good start I have already narrated in chapter 9. ( Look before you leap) 

Great Desire of my Life:

During this course of time, I tried to quit but I couldn't do that. I had had my pocket money to buy books and to pay the tuition fees for college. Though I kept on studying, it took a long time to finish because I was unable to pay full time to my studies. I could not pay full time for my studies which resulted in my failure in the exams again and again. The results could not come up to my expectation. I lost my cherished dream during this survival, too. I was very much interested to choose a profession that required good grades and a lot of hard work to qualify for the entrance examination for the selection of GD Pilot in the National Air Force. 

Shattered Dreams

All my dreams were dashed to grounds due to my poor board result in the third division. Finally, I decided to study a profession that could bear my expenses. I adopted the teaching profession in order to support myself. The subject, the English language, I chose to study that helped me a lot to survive. Later, I got a chance to teach in a Federal College on an ad-hoc basis which became my mark and supported me a lot in securing other experiences in this profession. The head of the institution was very much fatherly and courteous. He guided me and instilled the professional skills which are required to keep the pace up in pedagogy. I have great regard for him. He was a man capable of looking beneath the surface of things. I owe much to that altruistic man in life. His supervision made him more energetic and optimistic about the challenges of new trials in his onward journey in life.


For the students of ECAT and FUNGAT

1. Where did the writer's father die? 



ANSWER= (A) Myo Hospital
Explanation: He died in Myo Hospital Lahore. 

2. The dead body was lying in the mid of the courtyard. "lying" is a Transitive or an Intransitive verb?  


     D
ANSWER= (D) Intransitive Verb
Explanation: It is an intransitive verb, and needs no object. 

3. What was the writer's cherished dream?

ANSWER= (C) to become a pilot 
Explanation: The writer wanted to become a pilot. 

5. What is the synonym of "irrecoverable"?     


ANSWER= (C) irreversible
Explanation: that cannot be changed, irreplaceable, irredeemable, irreparable. 

6. What is the antonym of "survival"?  

ANSWER= (D) expired
Explanation: no more alive, dead, non-existent. 

7.  What is the mood of the writer?


ANSWER= (B) gloomy
 Explanation: The writer is very sad about the death of his father.

8. What does the writer want to say in his concluding line of the passage?  

ANSWER= (B) to face the challenges manfully 
 Explanation: The writer is optimistic about his onward journey in life.  

9. About which profession is the writer talking about in the last passage?  




ANSWER= (B) pedagogy
Explanation: Study of teaching. Archaeology-study of ruins. Phonology-a study of speech sounds. anamorphic-marked by intentional distortion of an image


Click here to attempt a Comprehension Passage No 4 "Effects of Bullying"


10.  Suggest any other suitable title to the passage. 


ANSWER= (B) Will of Supreme Power  
Explanation: Sooner or later everyone is to die and death is a great leveller

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