Paragraph Name : The Uses and Abuses of Facebook

Answer: Facebook is one of the greatest and the most wonderful inventions of modern technology. Actually, Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friend, family, and business. Users are able to search for friend and acquaintances by e-mail address, school, university, or just by typing a name or location for search. E- mail notifications let users know when new friend have chosen to add them to their list or when someone has sent a message to them within the system. A popular feature on Facebook is the ability to share photographs uploaded from a phone, camera, or hard drive. As with other private information, users have the option to allow only friends to see their pictures or anyone. There is an unlimited amount of storage available, which is a major advantage of Facebook’s photograph sharing capabilities. But it is now almost equally used and abused. Many young boys and girls become addicted to it and give more time on it than studies. Again, sometimes privacy is not ensured. Few immoral people post obscene pictures. Seeing these pictures, the tender minds of the youngsters are severely damaged. A long term bad effect can be seen in those adolescents. Besides, various crimes are being through it. For this reason, a few days ago the authority has closed its network sine die. In fact, it gives us entertainment but it should not be turned into a national obsession encouraging narcissism. Despite these few bad sides of Facebook, it has great importance for the communication of modern people at present. So we all should take all possible steps so that this blessing may not turn into a curse.

English Word Meaning in Bangla: civilisation- সভ্যতা, connect- সংযুক্ত করা, intend- উদ্দেশ্য, ability- সামর্থ্য, allow- অনুমতি দেয়া, tender- কোমল, severely- মারাত্মক ভাবে, available- সহজলভ্য, addicted- আসক্ত, privacy- গোপনীয়তা, crime- অপরাধ, curse- অভিশাপ।

Paragraph Name: Bangabandhu Satellite-1

Answer: A satellite refers to an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or another planet in order to collect information or for communication. The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 is the first Bangladeshi geostationary communications Satellite. The Satellite has been named after the father of the nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It was designed and manufactured by Thales Alenia Space and its launch provider was SpaceX. Its launch station was Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, USA and the ground control stations are in Betbunia and Gazipur in Bangladesh. The satellite was expected to be located at the 119.1 East longitude geostationary slot. With a total mass of 3700 kg and powered by 2 deployable solar arrays and batteries, the expected longevity of the satellite is 15 years. The satellite provides Ku-band and C-band television broadcast and data relay services across Bangladesh and neighboring areas. This satellite will bring about enormous development and uninterrupted telecommunication system in Bangladesh. At present, the country’s television channels have been renting bandwidth from Chinese, Indian and Singaporean satellites at a cost of about 14 million a year. It is expected that Bangladesh will not only save such amount of money in the future, but also would earn a lot by letting other countries to lease the unused bandwidth. The launch of satellite Bangabandhu-1 by Bangladesh brings both prospects and challenges as it is expected to help the country save Foreign currency, while the challenges remain in effectively running the venture.

English Word Meaning in Bangla: artificial- কৃত্রিম, orbit- কক্ষপথ, geostationary- ভূ-সমলয়, launch- উৎক্ষেপ, longitude- দ্রাঘিমারেখা, mass- ভর, longevity- আয়ুষ্কাল, broadcast- সম্প্রচার, enormous- বিশাল, uninterrupted- নিরবিচ্ছিন্ন, prospect- সম্ভাবনা।

Paragraph Name : My Visit to A Book Fair

Answer: A fair is a collection of various things for entertainment arranged in stalls on a large open ground where a huge number of people gather and enjoy themselves. In other words, a fair can be defined as an exhibition of different types of products. Recently, I have visited a fair. It was the book fair popularly known as Ekushey Boi Mela. It was held on the premises of the Bangla Academy. I went there with my parents. In the fair, I saw hundreds of bookstalls selling and displaying different types of books. Almost all of the bookstalls were arranged by various famous publishers of our country. A few bookstalls were also organised by some leading cultural organisations of the country. As it was evening there was a huge rush of people in the fair. So, it was difficult to walk freely at that time. I along with my parents, went to a number of bookstalls. Outside the Bangla Academy premises,there were some attractive handicrafts made of cane and clay which attracted me much. While moving around we met prof. Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, a sagacious writer of Bengali literature. I bought three books written by Rabindranath Tagore. I also attended a seminar organised by the Bangla Academy. After passing some hours there, we started for home just after the sunset. Such a fair will certainly help our writers to enrich Bangla literature more.

English Word Meaning in Bangla: arranged – সজ্জিত stall- দোকান defined- সংজ্ঞায়িত premises- আঙ্গিনা handicraft- হস্তশিল্প cane- বেত clay- কাদামাটি enrich- সমৃদ্ধ করা various- বিভিন্ন gather- একত্রিত হওয়া attend- উপস্থিত থাকা।

Paragraph Name : Tree Plantation

Answer: Tree plantation refers to planting trees at a large scale in a planted way. Trees are our friends. They give us food and shelter as well as soothe our eyes with their green colour. They give us various kinds of fruits. they give us firewood as fuel for cooking. They give us timber for furniture, doors and windows, boats, electric poles, railway slippers,etc. They give us rubber too. Trees take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Sufficient trees cause sufficient rainfall and prevent drought. Trees along the roadside the and coastal areas prevent erosion and tidal bore. But many inconsiderate people cut down trees at random for their selfish interest. So, we lose trees. Hence, tree plantation must be taken as a project. The more we plant trees, the more our environment will be balanced and greener. In Bangladesh, tree plantation is compulsory as we not have adequate forest areas required to maintain the ecological balance. Making people conscious of it by holding various seminars and meetings, tree plantation campaign may be successful. The mass media like TV and radio can play great roles to inspire tree plantation. To make life and environment healthy, the is no alternative to tree plantation.

English Word Meaning in Bangla: soothe- প্রশান্তি দেওয়া, produce- উৎপন্ন করা, sufficient- পর্যাপ্ত, at random- নির্বিচারে, inconsiderate- অবিবেচক, mass media- গনমাধ্যম, inspire- উৎসাহিত করা, tidal bore- জোয়ারের প্লাবন, refer- নির্দেশ করা, planned- পরিকল্পিত, shade- ছায়া, fuel- জ্বালানি।