In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: The natural oils on your skin can corrode the exterior of your guitar strings. You may even notice the strings losing color and developing bits of rust. To combat this, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water before playing to extend the life of your strings and keep them grime-free. Avoid applying perfumes or lotions to your hands before playing, as they are not suited for guitar strings and their ingredients may cause damage. When first learning to play the guitar, it's natural to press on the strings firmly as you gauge proper finger position. Once you have a better command of playing, though, you can actually use much less pressure to achieve your desired notes. Doing this will help minimize excessive pressure of your metal frets against the strings, which can cause physical wear to their exteriors and shorten their longevity. When you push a string tightly over the fret board so the pitch goes upa technique often used in rock and blues musicit strains the string. While this effect can sound desirable, doing this excessively can damage the string's internal structure, causing it to wear out more quickly. Nylon strings have a higher tolerance for string bends than metal strings, which tend to have more trouble snapping back into their original shape. If you play your guitar with your fingers rather than a pick, your nails are one of the items that most frequently touch and manipulate your strings. Uneven or jagged nails can actually cause abrasions to your strings' exteriors, which shortens their playable life. A smooth, rounded nail shape is preferable to a square shape for guitar playing. What's most important, though, is filing them smoothly, so no rough edges can scratch your strings. While some tinkering is necessary to properly tune your guitar, most amateur guitar players manipulate string tension far more than is necessary. If your guitar is in tune, try not to mess around tightening and loosening the strings just for fun. Excessive slackening and tightening wears down the interior structure of the strings, causing their integrity to break down over time. Avoiding this will help increase string life. Try to stick with one method of tuning to preserve your strings. That way you're not manipulating them excessively by switching between methodsfor example, between standard tuning and drop-D tuning.
Summary: Wash your hands before playing. Ease up on pressure. Minimize string bends. File your fingernails smooth. Don't tighten and loosen strings excessively.

Games will help students learn English by making it fun and by compelling them to think in new and different ways. Try a Jeopardy-type game that uses a point system to get your students to compete against each other. Consider a Family Feud-style game if you want your students to work together in teams. Try memorizing or guessing games that rely on flash cards. For instance, display a flash card with a hint and see if your students can guess the correct answer. An important way to teach language is to use visuals in order to build word association. By using visuals to promote word association, your students will be able to make stronger connections between ideas and new words that they are learning in your class. Consider: Pictures and photographs. Post-cards. Video. Maps. Comic books. Comic books are especially good because visuals and text are paired together. One great way to teach English as a second language is to incorporate the use of targeted language applications on smart phones. Targeted language apps are a great way to reinforce what you have taught during instruction time, as students can use them to practice their language skills and to learn new phrases and words. Targeted language apps are available on a number of smart phone operating systems. There are a wide variety of free targeted language apps, like Duolingo. Some apps provide the opportunity for multiple students to work together to learn. Social media is a great way to teach English as a second language for beginners. Social media provides a great opportunity for you to teach colloquial phrases and commonly used words. In addition, it provides an opportunity for students to observe word usage and to practice what they have learned. Try an "idiom of the day" lesson. In this, you can pick common idioms or colloquial phrases, and explain them to your class. Have your students follow popular figures on Twitter and translate their tweets. Start a social media group and have students share news pieces and explain or translate them in English.
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One-sentence summary -- Use games to reinforce the topic of the day. Use visuals to teach language. Promote the use of targeted language apps on mobile devices. Use social media.

Q: A stem statement should outline the performance expected of a student. You should use measurable verbs to form your stem statement. Your stem statement should begin by referencing the class or lesson. For example, "After this course, students will..." "After completing this lesson, students are expected to..." Example: After completing this lesson, students are expected to be able to write a paragraph using a topic sentence. Example: After completing this lesson, students are expected to be able to identify three farm animals. Your stem statement outlines the duration of time your students need to have mastered a certain skill. If you're writing an educational objective for a particular lesson, specify that lesson in the objective rather than writing something like "By the end of this course..." Instead, opt for, "By the end of today's lecture..." Example: By midterm, all students should be able to count to 20. Example: At the end of the workshop, students should produce a haiku. The verbs you use are contingent on which level of learning in Bloom's taxonomy you're conveying. You should write a variety of educational objectives that all speak to differing levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. For knowledge, go for words like list, recite, define, and name. For comprehension, words like describe, explain, paraphrase, and restate are ideal. Application objectives should include verbs like calculate, predict, illustrate, and apply. For analysis, go for terms like categorize, analyze, diagram, and illustrate. For synthesis, use words like design, formulate, build, invent, and create. For evaluation, try terms like choose, relate, contrast, argue, and support. The outcome is where you really get to the performance, condition, and criterion. You are expressing what the students are expected to do at the end of a course or lesson. What performance do you expect? Do students simply need to list or name something? Should they understand how to perform a task? Where and when will they carry out this performance? Is this for a classroom setting alone or do they need to perform in a clinical, real world environment? What are the criteria you're using to evaluate your student? What would be considered a passing grade or an appropriate performance? Once you've laid out the stem statement, chosen your verb, and identified the outcome, put it all together to form an educational objective. Say you're teaching a high school English class and, for one lesson, you're teaching symbolism. A good educational objective would be, "By the end of this lesson, students should be able to analyze the symbolism in a given passage of literature and interpret the work's meaning in their own words." The stem statement identifies that the objective should be met by the end of the lesson. The verbs used are comprehension verbs, indicating this task falls under the second level of Bloom's hierarchy of learning. The expected performance is literary analysis. The condition is, presumably, that the reading be done alone. The expected outcome is that the student will be able to read a work, analyze it, and explain it in her own words.
A: Write stem statements. Select the proper verb. Determine the outcome. Put it all together.

Problem: Article: Do so after meeting the Man in Black at the summit at the Land of the Dragons. This will be after you battle the Man in Black and head back to the Imperial City. When you climb up the throne room, you will see two large, highly conspicuous chests. Climb toward the one on the left, and open it to obtain the fourth torn page.
Summary:
Head to the Emperor's throne room. Receive the fourth torn page.