Names of baby animals

Animal             Young

Alligator           hatchling
Ant                   antling
Antelope          calf, fawn, kid or yearling
Ass                   foal
Badger             cub
Bear                 cub
Beaver             kit, kitten, pup
Bee                  larva
Bird                 nestling, hatchling, chick
Bison               calf
Boar                boarlet, piglet, shoat, farrow
Bobcat            kitten or cub
Buffalo           calf, yearling, or spike-bull
Camel            calf or colt
Canary           chick
Caribou          calf or fawn
Cat                 kit, kitling, kitten or pussy
Cattle             calf, stot or yearling (m. bullcalf or f. heifer)
Chicken         chick, chicken, poult, cockerel or pullet
Cicada           nymph
Cod               codling, scrod or sprag
Cougar          kitten or cub
Coyote          whelp, pup
Deer              fawn
Dog               whelp or puppy

English short story: A Hungry Wolf

A Hungry Wolf

Once there was a wolf in a forest. One day he felt very hungry. He looked for food here and there but couldn't find any. At last he found a loaf of bread and piece of meat in the hole of a tree.

The hungry wolf squeezed into the hole and ate all the food. The food was kept by a woodcutter for his lunch. The woodcutter came to the tree to eat his lunch. But he saw there was no food in the hole, instead, a wolf.

On seeing the woodcutter, the wolf tried to get out of the hole. But it couldn't because its tummy was full and swollen with food.

The woodcutter caught the wolf and gave it a nice beatings.

English short story: A Foolish Lion

A Foolish Lion

Once upon a time, there lived a lion in a forest. He had grown old and could not run fast anymore. As days went by, it became more and more difficult for him to hunt.

One day, he was wandering through the forest in search for food, he came across a cave. He peeped in and smelt the air inside the cave. He said to himself, “Some animal must be staying here." He crept inside the cave only to find it empty. Then he decided to stay inside and wait for the animals to return.

That cave was the home of a jackal that would go out in search of food everyday and return in the evening. That evening, the jackal, after having his meal, went to his cave. But as he came closer, he felt something wrong. Everything around him was very quiet. “Something is wrong,” the jackal said to himself. “Why are all the birds and insects so silent?"

He walked towards his cave very slowly and cautiously. He looked around him, watching for any signs of danger. As he got closer to the cave, all his instincts alerted him of danger. “I have to make sure that everything is alright,” thought the jackal. Suddenly, he thought of a plan.

The clever jackal called out to the cave. “Hello my good cave, what happened to you today? Why are you so quiet?”

The jackal’s voice echoed deep inside the cave. The lion, who by now could not control his hunger any longer, thought to himself, “I think it is because I am here that the cave is silent. Before the jackal realises that something is wrong, I should do something.”

The jackal continued to call out, “Have you forgotten our agreement cave? You are supposed to greet me when I return home." The lion tried to make his voice sound hollow and called out from within the cave, “Welcome home my friend."

The birds chirped loudly and flew away on hearing the lion’s roar. As for the jackal, he shook with fear. Before the hungry lion could pounce on him and eat him up, the jackal ran for his life.

The lion waited for a long for the jackal to enter the cave. But when the jackal did not come in, the lion realised that he had been fooled. He cursed himself for his foolishness that made him lose a prey.

English short story: A Lion and a mouse

A friend in need is a friend indeed

Once upon a time there lived a lion in a forest. One day, after a heavy meal he was sleeping under a tree. After a while there came a mouse and it started to play on the lion. Suddenly, the lion got disturbed and got up with anger. He saw a small mouse standing trembling with fear. The lion wanted to kill the mouse. But the mouse requested the lion to forgive him. The lion felt pity and left him. The mouse ran away.

After a few days, a hunter came to the forest. He caught the same lion in a net and the lion could not escape. He started roaring. The mouse heard its roaring and rushed to rescue the lion. He cut the net with his sharp teeth and helped the lion escape.

Thereafter, the mouse and the lion became friends.


Moral 1: A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Moral 2: Never underestimate anyone.

Pronouns in Arabic

Pronouns in Arabic

Some basic Arabic words and expressions in English

Some basic Arabic words in English

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

Branch College of Technology, Badr  or Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

 

 

 

Branch College of Technology, Badr  or Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

Branch College of Technology, Badr  or Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

Branch College of Technology, Badr  or Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

Branch College of Technology, Badr  or Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

Branch College of Technology, Badr  also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

Branch College of Technology, Badr  also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

Branch College of Technology, Badr  also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr  also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

The Branch College of Technology, Badr also known as Badr College of Technology, Al Medina, Saudi Arabia, TVTC

 

 

 

Training and Vocational Technical Corporation (TVTC) has a Branch College of Technology for Boys in Badr, (Al Ghuzlani), Yanbu road, Al Medina Munawara.
The college is 7 minutes drive from the main city of Badr on Yanbu road.
The college is following departments:
1. Computer
2. Mechanical
3. Electricity
4. Welding
5. Air conditioning
The students are provided with monthly stipend along with all the facilities that a college must have.
College staff is highly professional, polite and cooperative.
I had a great time being a part of the organisation as an English lecturer.

Nasser Gorsi

Waking up to mom's noise

Waking up to mom's noise

When you live for 30 years in a city with your family all the time, you might take everything for granted. Sometimes, relationships get so close that our mind wants break and go away.

I am at home, sleeping in the morning when my mom wakes up early morning and starts doing household chores. The sounds of her walking here and there, opening doors, picking stuff and putting while I am asleep has always been there.

Today when I was sleeping, I heard the same sounds. My mom was working at home, walking in my room, picking some stuff and I could hear it even when I was asleep.

But when I woke up, I realised it was my roommate, a dirty, lousy guy from some remote village in Kashmir with a long beard without moustache. My sweet dream was dashed, terrible, isn’t it? You cannot feel it if you haven’t lived away from your family what a person undergoes. I felt very sad for my mom was just with me, I just had to open my eyes and see her, I could see my room where I had spent many years.

At times, I forget I am living in a desert country and get surprised as I open my eyes. It was hard to believe but I realised that may be this was my fault, may be this was destiny. But why did I leave home and family? I could become a good lawyer as my parents always wanted me to be. I could become a college or university lecturer and live a peaceful life there, at home with family.
I even yelled at her for disturbing me early mornings and now I want to be disturbed by the same sounds.

Living thousands of kilometres away from the family, friends, society that I grew up with, it becomes difficult sometimes to even realise that I am not at home.

Eating outside food every time I am hungry, the taste of homemade meals is months away. A place, where I would call my friends if lonely and they would appear at the drop of a hat. Life had become so much better there.

And there I left everything, well-settled, well-established and a running life.

Will I ever get back to home? I keep asking myself every now and then. I would admit that I always knew the consequences and that depression has been my friend for a long time. I always knew that it would haunt me time and again, still I chose it.

Nasser Gorsi