NOTE MAKING

Read the following passage carefully

1. Note making Example – Passage 1:
Conversation is indeed the most easily teachable of all arts. All you need to do in order to become a good
conversationalist is to find a subject that interests you and your listeners. There are, for example, numberless hobbies to
talk about. But the important thing is that you must talk about other fellow’s hobby rather than your own. Therein lies the
secret of your popularity. Talk to your friends about the things that interest them, and you will get a reputation for good
fellowship, charming wit, and a brilliant mind. There is nothing that pleases people so much as your interest in their
interest.
It is just as important to know what subjects to avoid and what subjects to select for good conversation. If you don’t want
to be set down as a wet blanket or a bore, be careful to avoid certain unpleasant subjects. Avoid talking about yourself,
unless you are asked to do so. People are interested in their own problems not in yours. Sickness or death bores
everybody. The only one who willingly listens to such talk is the doctor, but he gets paid for it.
To be a good conversationalist you must know not only what to say, but how also to say it. Be mentally quick and witty.
But don’t hurt others with your wit. Finally try to avoid mannerism in your conversation. Don’t bite your lips or click your
tongue, or roll your eyes or use your hands excessively as you speak.
Don’t be like that Frenchman who said, “How can I talk if you hold my hand?”

Answer:

Title: The Art of Conversation Notes:

Conv’n—most easily tch’ble art
(a) Reqd. interest’g subject – hobbies
(b) Talk about other fellow’s int./hobby
(c) Win’g reptn. as good conversationalist
(i) good f’ship
(ii) charm’g wit
(iii) brl. mind

Fit subs, for conversationalist

(a) What subs, to avoid/select?
(b) Avoid unpl’nt subs.
(i) sickness
(ii) death
(c) Avoid talk’g about self

Qualities of a good conversationalist

(a) What to say & how to say it
(b) ment’y quick & witty
(c) pleasant & unhurt’g
(d) avoid mannerisms

Summary: Conversation is the easiest and the most effective tool than other arts. To have such attractive quality, you
need to pick a subject that interest your listners more than you. Talk to your friends on topics that can indulge your friends
in the conversation for a longer period of time. Being a good conversationalist, you have to quick and witty. You should
have a pleasant and unhurting quality. Mannerism should be avoided.
2. Note making Example Passage 2:
Good decoration reflects the personality of the people who live in the home. It should, first of all, be distinctive, just as
each person is distinctive. A home should have unity not only within each room but also throughout the house. Rooms
should, to some degree, harmonize with each other. The colour and styling of each room, particularly, should fit into the
colour and styling of the rooms which run out of it.
Attractive home furnishings set the stage for pleasant living. If they are an expression of yourself, you will have a feeling
of satisfaction every time you enter your home, and friends will share your enjoyment.
However, furnishings and surroundings expressive of just the right note of restfulness, gay informality, or elegant
simplicity are not often assembled by accident. Even enthusiasm alone is not enough. For most home decorators, it takes
poring over plans, trying colour schemes, finding ingenious ways to make the best of what you have, and shopping around
to search out just the right purchases at prices you can afford to pay. But there is keen pleasure in striving for the perfect
result, and great satisfaction in achieving it.
A successful house and successful rooms will depend upon the proper relationship of each element in it to the others and
to the whole. Therefore, in selecting each piece it is well to consider the background, the usage, the draperies, the floor
covering, the upholstering materials, the woods, shapes, colour scheme, and the “feeling” you prefer for the room.
Work and plan to enjoy your house. Limit the expenditures of time, effort and money to the extent of your abilities, so that
just running the house doesn’t dominate your life. Elegance and delicate things may be a drain you can afford only in a
limited way. If you can’t afford outside help, select a house and furnishings that require less care. Plan your activities so
that tumult and upset are limited to a few rooms—an activity room or a bedroom, or a comer of the dining room.
You’ll get more pleasure out of a house if you have a hobby connected with it—collecting glass or antiques, gardening or
indoor flower growing ceramics, art, cooking, decorating, flower arrangements, etc. And you’ll get more satisfaction and
a great deal of help from studying household activities.
You can select a pleasing combination of colours from a wallpaper, a fabric, an oriental mg, a flower or scene, or even a
picture in a magazine. If you don’t already have the furniture or mgs, it is a good idea to make up a colour scheme in this
way. Let one colour predominate. Limit a colour scheme to two or three colours, with white or gray tones.

Answers:

Title: Decorating One’s Home

Notes:
Home reflects personality of home-owner
1.1 unity & harmony bet. rooms
1.2 colour & styling sh’d match

Elements of decoration
2.1 colour schemes
2.2 draperies, rugs, upholstery, woods, shape

Plan to enjoy the House

3.1 limit time, effort & money
3.2 select fumish’gs which require little care
3.3 confine hectic activities to a few rooms
3.4 hobby connected with house—great pleasure.

Choice of Colours
4.1 one colour sh’d predominate
4.2 one can expt with colours
4.3 calm colours for restfulness; intense for liveliness
4.4 colours sh’d harmonise with furniture, draperies, carpets

Summary: The maintenance of the house reflects the personality of the people who live in that. So the distinctive
decoration is as important as one attire in good clothes. A unity in the home can only be seen if the rooms in the house
have a degree of harmony, colour and styling. Furniture is a working strategy for the pleasant living. If there is an
expression of oneself then one will have a mental satisfaction everytime one enter one’s home. To attain such satisfaction
one need to pore over plants, try colour schemes, window shopping to search the best thing for one’s home.
Note making Example Passage 3:
EXERCISE YOUR WAY TO A HEALTHY HEART
The epidemic of heart attacks has been attaining alarming proportion in recent times causing grave concern specially to
the medical fraternity.
To contain and control the increasing death and disability from heart attacks and to focus on public awareness and their
involvement at global level, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Heart Federation observed September
24th as the World Heart Day.
What causes heart attacks? Dr H.S. Wasir, Chief Cardiologist and Medical Director, Batra Hospital and Medical Research
Centre lists four main habits which adversely affect the heart health. These are lack of physical exercise, wrong eating
habits, cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, and stressful lifestyle.
The importance of physical exercise in minimising the incidence of heart attacks cannot be underestimated. “Physical
exercise,” says Dr Wasir, “plays a major role in achieving a long and healthy life in general and prevention of heart
attacks in particular.” There are several studies showing that physically active people have higher longevity than those
sedentary or physically inactive.
In fact, the review of modern medical literature sums up the role of physical activity in health as ‘Regular physical
exercise adds not only years to life but also life to years’. It is the experience of many modern day physicians that some
patients of angina (chest pain or discomfort on physical or mental exertion or after meals) do get relief with regularly done
physical exercise.
What type of physical exercise and how much, one may ask. It is the isotonic (dynamic) exercise that is beneficial for the
heart and not the isometric (static) exercise which should be avoided by heart patients. Weight lifting, carrying heavy
suitcases while travelling, pushing a car are some of the examples of isometric exercises. Examples of the beneficial type
of physical activity (dynamic exercise) are brisk walking, swimming, golf without power carts, badminton and tennis
(doubles for those with old heart attacks but fully recovered, to be started only after physician’s advice).
Walking is the best mode of doing regular physical exercise which requires no equipment, money, material or
membership of a club! 30 to 60 minutes brisk walk even on alternate day has been proven to be beneficial. Stationary
cycling or walking on a treadmill at home are the other alternatives.
Walking up the stairs instead of using a lift if going up to three or four floors or getting off the lift two or three floors
before the destination and walking up the rest through stairs. Going up several floors in a overcrowded lift with limited
fresh air to be shared by so many may also prove unhealthy.
Park a little away from the work place and walk that healthy distance.
Best time for brisk walks would be the early mornings before the traffic flow picks up and walking in the parks with thick
plantation. Jogging on the roads with heavy traffic should be avoided as you will be inhaling air polluted with the toxins
from vehicular exhaust such as dioxides of sulphur and nitrogen.
“Before starting any physical exercise programmes for the first time, one must get fully evaluated by a cardiologist so as
to avoid any harm being done by exercise if there is serious underlying heart disease needing treatment,” warns Dr Wasir.
Answers:
Title: Having a Healthy Heart
Notes:
World Heart Day. 24 Sept.
(a) to control death & disability
(b) to increase awareness

Causes of Heart Attacks

(a) lack of phy’l exercise
(b) wrong eating habits
(c) smoking & alcohol
(d) stressful lifestyle

Role of Physical Excse.

(a) prevents hrt attacks—longer life
(b) isotonic-beneficial; isometric—harmful
(c) walking: best excse.
(i) 30 to 60 mts. brisk walk
 (ii) no equipment, money, mat’l or membership of club
(iii) early morning: ideal for walking
(d) Other beneficial excses
(i) stay cycling
(ii) swimming
(iii) walk’g on treadmill

Consult cardiologist before beginning an exercise program.

Summary: In recent times, heart attack is an epidemic disease that cause grave concern to the medical fraternity. To have
control on increasing death and disability due to heart attacks, the World Health Organisation (W.H.O) and World Heart
Federation has observed September 24th as the World Heart Day to focus on public awareness. According to health expert
there are four main habits that cause heart attack, these are lack of physical exercise, wrong eating habits, smoking,
excessive alcohol consumption and stressful lifestyle. The affects of heart attack can be reduced to greater extent with the
help of regular exercise.