Thursday, March 6, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Monday, March 3, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
WHAT IS LANGUAGE...a discussion.
LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
Language gives you a frame to form thoughts that can be communicated and understood with clarity and simplicity. In English language we have basically four types of sentences to convey thoughts about our STATE, POSSESSION,ACTION and REALITY(OBJECTIVE sentences)...SPAR in short. So the frame to form thoughts in English language can also be called SPAR.
Now let's look at the different types of sentences in the three categories of time ie., PRESENT, PAST and FUTURE.
STATE
How's your job?
How was your job in the beginning?
How long have you been in this job?
Will you be at the place next year also?
POSSESSION
Do you have free time in office?
Did you have free time yesterday?
Will you have any holidays this week?
ACTION
Where do you work?
Do you like your job?
Are you working in your office now?
Are you leaving early today?
Have you completed today's work?
How long have you been working on this project?
When did you join this company?
Were you studying before joining here?
Will you finish this work tomorrow?
Will you be taking a half day leave tomorrow?
REALITY
How many people are there in your office?
How many people were there in your office last year?
How many people will be there in your office next year?
PASSIVE VOICE SENTENCES
Are you given feed backs every week by your clients?
Is somebody being interviewed today at our office?
Have you been asked to give a presentation today?
Were you called for the meeting yesterday?
Who was being felicitated yesterday in the afternoon function?
Will you be given any new assignments next week?
MODAL VERB SENTENCES
Can you help me?
Could you please help me?
Would you like to help me?
Shall I help you?
Should I help you?
May I help you?
Do we have to go now?
Do we ought to go now?
Do we need to go now?
I think she might not be able to come. What do you think?
You used to come here daily. What happened?
He must inaugurate the program. When to contact him, any idea...?
So these are the 38 common types of English Language Sentence Structures that is enough to communicate any thought that comes to our mind...
TO BE CONTINUED...
Saturday, March 1, 2025
SPEECH GAMES
How to play the game: All the teams would come to the front, one by one and give a speech with each member saying a sentence about a SONG, a FICTIONAL CHARACTER, a dish etc. The teams listen to the speech and then make a guess about the possible answers after discussions with their members. They write the answers on a paper and submit before the speech giving team for verification. The team that gave the speech goes through all the answers and gives points to the teams according to their answers.
Sample speeches for the teams:
"Sung by M.G. Sreekumar, composed by S.P. Venkatesh, written by Bichu Thirumala, and enacted by Jagadeesh, this is a light-hearted, slow, solo Malayalam song about the little joys of life. Shot in Kodaikanal, the song has poetic lyrics."
"Even though he sports a thick, well-groomed moustache and traditional Kerala attire, consisting of a white mundu with a light-colored shirt, he speaks Malayalam with a rural tone, displaying a rustic and rooted persona, and comes across as a confident middle-aged man with in-depth understanding of Carnatic music and Kalaripayattu, Kerala's own traditional martial art culture."
TO BE CONTINUED...
ENGLISH COURSE SYLLABUS
1. What is ENGLISH?
2. What is LANGUAGE?
3. Influence of English Culture.
4. What is a SENTENCE and Sentence Structure?
5. What is a VERB and Types of Verbs?
6. What is THOUGHT and THINKING?
7. How to "Think in English"?
8. Conversational Grammar
9. Conversational Verbs
10. Combination Test
11. Voice Modulation
12. English Sentence Pattern (ESP)
13. Sentence Making Skills (SMS)
14. Parts of Speech (8+1)
15. Language Games
16. Role plays to Practice English Conversations
17. Lexical Resources in English
18. Making CVs, Formal Letter Writing
19. Self Introduction (Using BBC Method)
20.Presentations by Students
21. Essay Writing Practice
(*Lexical Resources: Idioms, Proverbs, Phrasal verbs, Metaphors, Similes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Speeches, Songs etc.)
TO BE CONTINUED...
Friday, February 28, 2025
ENGLISH - a SUBJECT or a SKILL?
How should English be taught in our schools and colleges?
As a skill because that's what the students need in their life after school and in the world outside school. Once your academic needs are met ie., you get the certificates with the right grades/marks, skills alone matter. The essays, the dramas, the poems, the articles which you mugged up in school/college life are like files on a computer meant to be deleted. What is retained is the software, the ability to do a thing, the critical skill to face and excel in a life situation.