The MOST BASIC PATTERN of 7-ENGLISH-QUESTIONS(Yes/No type)

Here all the five forms of the verb “write” are used.

1.     Do  I  write clearly? 

2.     Did  I  write clearly?                                    
3.     Am  I  writing clearly?

4.     Have  I  written clearly?

5.     Was  I  writing clearly?

6.     Will  I  write clearly?

7.     Can  I  write clearly?

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1.     Do  you  write clearly?

2.     Did  you  write clearly?

3.     Are  you  writing clearly?

4.     Have  you  written clearly?

5.     Were  you  writing clearly?

6.     Will  you  write clearly?

7.     Can  you  write clearly?

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1.     Does  she  write clearly?                                  Yes, she writes clearly.

2.     Did  she  write clearly?                                        Yes, she wrote clearly.    
                     

3.     Is  she  writing clearly?

4.     Has  she  written clearly?

5.     Was  she  writing clearly?

6.     Will  she  write clearly?

7.     Can  she  write clearly?

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SHARING DREAMS EXERCISE

Asked the students to think about a dream that they can share about their society/state/country/age group.

The groups have to then come and do a presentation/role-play/conversational drama based on their dream. 

TO BE CONTINUED...

BMH 2022

 SPAR METHOD

I

STATE

I am Vinod Kaliyath from Chelannur in Calicut. 

POSSESSION

I have a family of 4 members.

ACTION

I study in ......

REALITY

There are 60 students in our batch.

Speaking is all about having a good VOCABULARY, awareness of GRAMMAR and having IDEAS.

READING  is all about GRASPing the content, SPEAKING or taking an action and then getting a FEEDBACK or a response or reaction from the audience.

What is TIME?

TIME is Past, Present and Future.

STATE

1. I am in an English class now.

2. I was in Foundation class yesterday.

3. I will be in Sociology class tomorrow.

4. I have been in this college for 4 weeks.

YES/NO QUESTIONS

Are you in an ......?

Am I in an ....?

Was I....?

Were you....?

Will I.....?

Will you...?

Have I been....?

Have you been....?

POSSESSION

You have a class now.

You had a class today.

You will have a class tomorrow.

YES/NO QUESTIONS

1. Do you have....?

2. Did you have....?

3. Will you have...?

REALITY

1. There is a meeting now.

2. There was a meeting yesterday.

3. There will be a meeting tomorrow.

YES/NO QUESTIONS

Is there....?

Was there...?

Will there be....?

ACTIONS

1. She plays Tennis.

2. She likes Sports.

3. She is playing now.

4. She is playing a match tomorrow.

5. She has played a game today.

6. She has been playing for the whole day.

YES/NO QUESTIONS

1. Does she play....?

2. Does she like....? 

3. Is she playing now?

4. Is she playing a match tomorrow?

5. Has she played a game today?

6. Has she been playing for the whole day?

STUDY ....OBSERVATION EXPLORING IMAGINATION DISCOVERY

THINK...ASKING QUESTIONS

VERBAL LANGUAGE

7. He played Cricket yesterday.

8. He was playing in the evening.

9. He will come tomorrow.

10. He will be coming by car.

YES/NO QUESTIONS

7. Did he play .....?

8. Was he playing....?

9. Will he come...?

10. Will he be coming....?

We have studied 20 English sentences.

MODAL VERBS

1. Rekha can sing.

2. Rekha could sing.

3. Rekha shall sing.

4. Rekha should sing.

5. Rekha must sing.

6. Rekha may sing.

7. Rekha might sing.

8. Rekha would like to sing.

9. Rekha has to sing.

10. Rekha needs to sing.

11. Rekha ought to sing.

12. Rekha used to sing.

 

1. Can R sing?

2. Could she sing?

3. Shall R sing?

4. Should she sing?

5. Must R sing? 

6. May R sing?

7. Might R sing?

8. Would she like to sing?

9. Does R have to sing?

10. Does R need to sing?

11. Does R ought to sing?

12. Did R use to sing?

Non Verbal Language

PASSIVE VOICE

I write notes.

1. Notes are written by me.

2. Notes are being written by me.

3. Notes have been written by me.

4. Notes were written by me.

5. Notes were being written by me.

6. Notes will be written by me.

CONVERSATIONAL VERBS

DO DOES DID AM IS ARE WAS WERE HAVE HAS CAN WILL

MAKING 10 QUESTIONS WITH "SONG" AS THE KEYWORD

LEAVE LETTER MATTER

I request you to grant me a day's leave on ....... as I have to attend a .....

COVERING LETTER

With reference to .......daily dated ...... may I request  you to consider my candidature for the post of a Staff Nurse in your reputed hospital. My CV is attached with this letter.

cv

WORK PROFILE

A B.Sc Nursing graduate from......., ......batch looking for a job in healthcare sector. 

SPEECH ABOUT A MALAYALAM SONG

A DISCUSSION ON OLD SONGS VS NEW SONGS

SPEECH ABOUT AN ENGLISH SONG

SPEECH ABOUT A DISH

1. What is it made of...the ingredients?

2. How is it made/prepared?

3. What is the time needed to prepare?

4. What is the taste...salty, spicy, sour, sweet, bitter?

5. What is the cost?

6. What is its origin...South Indian, North Indian, Inter continental, Arabic, Italian...?

7. Is it a main dish/side/dessert?

8. Is it festival dish?

9. Do you know any restaurant/hotel famous because of this dish?

10.What makes this dish healthy?

Write a 50-word-paragraph on your favourite dish.

IMPORTANCE OF FOOD - SPEECH

SPEECH 3

SPEECH ABOUT A PERSON using adjectives.

1.AGE young old middle aged

2.HEIGHT tall short medium in height

3.BUILT PHYSIQUE fat thin medium slim well built

4. COMPLEXION dark fair wheatish

5. DRESS casuals formal traditional trendy fashionable

6. NATURE friendly shy reserved jovial serious cool short tempered

7. FACIAL FEATURES long/short/thick hair bald,bobbed, tied in plaits, 

forehead moustache thin/thick beard short/long, clean shaven

8.ORNAMENTS gold chain bracelet nose stud, ear rings.

9.ACCESSORIES specs walking stick vanity bag 

10. FOOTWEAR slippers shoes high heeled slippers  

11. HABITS

12. PURPOSE/PASSION IN LIFE   

WRITE A SMALL PARAGRAPH/SPEECH IN 50 WORDS ABOUT YOUR FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER(AN IMAGINARY CHARACTER FROM A BOOK/MOVIE/STORY/COMICAL/FANTASY) 

IMPORTANCE OF MOVIES IN YOUR LIFE AND SOCIALLY : WRITE A SHORT ESSAY IN 125 WORDS- INDIVIDUALLY

SPEECH 4

Speech about an interesting place that you have visited.

SUB TOPICS 

1. People and culture

2. Adventurus activities

3. Nature and climate

4. Facilities

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU GIVE A SPEECH

1. How far is this place?

2. How did you go there?

3. How much time did you take to reach that place?

4. What was the travelling expense?

5. What is there to see?

6. What did you do there?

7. Where did you stay?

8. How was the food and accomodation facilities?

9. Did you meet anybody at the place?

10. Did you have any memorable experience?

LAST EXERCISE

A INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION ABOUT YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

A TEAM PRESENTATION ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS IN NURSING IN THE FUTURE

GIVING THEIR OPINION EX.

On the topics given below the students have to come to the front and voice their opinions.

1. Joint family - Nuclear family
2. Mixed school - Girls'/Boys' only school
3. Old movies - New movies
4. Old songs - New songs
5. Indian culture - Western culture
6. Hostel life - Home life
7. Life in Kerala - Life in other states
8. Nursing - Other professions
9. Arranged Marriage - Love Marriage
10. Gender Equality - Good/Bad
11. Fast food - Home made food
12.Old fashion - New fashion
13. Social media - good/bad
14. Life before/after mobile phones
15. Life before/after Internet

TO BE CONTINUED...

EC OBJECT EXERCISES

1. Asked the students to form groups and each group has to say five sentences about an object seen in the room like say chair, fan etc.....taking a third person perspective. For eg., It is a fan, it has three blades...

2. Asked the students to form groups and each group has to say give a speech sharing a few thoughts of an object in the room.....taking a first person perspective. For eg., I am a fan, I have three blades.

TO BE CONTINUED...

CREST 29 th BATCH

SENTENCES IN ENGLISH ABOUT THE PRESENT

1. I am a student of CREST.

2. I have classes daily.

3. I come here in the morning.

4. There are 40 students in my batch.

5. I like discussions in class.

6. I am attending a Think in English(TE) class now.

7. After this class, I am going to have lunch.

8. I have got three TE classes till now.

9. I have been staying in Calicut for a week now.

10. I have been here since Dec 1st.

SENTENCES IN ENGLISH ABOUT THE PAST

1. I was a student of in TKM College last year.

2. I was doing my MSc. in Physics last year.

3. I completed my course in October.

4. I had six subjects in my course.

5. There were thirty students in our batch.

SENTENCES IN ENGLISH ABOUT THE FUTURE

1. In 2018, I will join the IAS academy in Trivandrum.

2. I will be preparing for IAS in 2018.

3. I will be busy with my studies in 2018.

4. I will have classes daily.

5. There will be a lot of seminars and workshops also.

So we have learnt till now 20(10+5+5) sentences in English...This makes half of our English Sentence Pattern.

A CONVERSATION ABOUT ENGLISH

I have an English class today.
What do you want to learn there?
I want to learn to use English.
You mean, you want to learn to use English language or "English" which means the culture of England.
I want to learn English language, not English.
Do you know what is English language made of...I mean what is the most important thing in English language?
Grammar, 
No...guess again. It is the sentences in English.
Oh...so how can I learn the sentences in English ?
For that you need to understand the pattern of sentences in English ie., the English Sentence Pattern (ESP)
What should I do to learn ESP?
Be conscious of the right pattern of sentences in English.
And then....
Learn to do it in a sub-conscious way....by using it often whenever you get a chance and if you don't get a chance to use English sentences then look for and even create chances on your own...once you master the logic of English sentences sub-consciously, you are on the right track.
Thanks for showing me the right track.


PASSIVE ACTION - SENTENCE STRUCTURES 
1. ELT class is attended by me.
2. ELT class is liked by me.
3. ELT class is being attended by me now.
4. ELT class is being attended by me tomorrow.
5. ELT class has been attended by me.
6. ELT class was attended by me yesterday.
7. ELT class was being attended by me in the afternoon.
8. ELT class will be attended by me.
(ELT - English language in Thoughts)

MODAL VERBS

1. Can you attend the class?
2. Could you please attend the class?
3. May I attend the class?
4. I might attend the class.
5. Shall I attend the class?
6. Should I attend the class?
7. Must I attend the class?
8. Would you like to attend the class?
9. Do I have to attend the class?
10. Do I need to attend the class?
11. Do I ought to attend the class?
12. Did you use to attend the class?


With this, we have learnt all the basic 40(20+20) sentence structures in English...This makes our basic knowledge of English Sentence Pattern(ESP) complete.

ACTIVITY BASED CLASSES

I. Asked the participants to do: MES(Making English Sentences) EXERCISES
1. Guess the ACTOR exercise...Learning to make sentences to describe a person.
2. Guess the PLACE exercise....Learning to make sentences to describe a place.
3. Guess the DISH exercise....Learning to make sentences to describe a dish.
4. Guess the MOVIE exercise....Learning to make sentences to describe an emotional incident.

II. Asked the participants to do: CONVERSATIONAL EXERCISES

1. A day in the life of a celebrity...Learning to do an imaginary conversation with a celebrity as the main character. 

2. Newspaper based exercise...Learning to do a real conversation based on a newspaper report.

III. SID (Speech-Interaction-Discussion) Exercise

Asked the student groups to:  
1. Select a topic 
2. Give a speech
3. Interact with the audience by inviting questions
4. Discuss by asking the audience whether they agree with their solution/suggestion related to the issue being discussed. The team should write the solution/suggestion on the board.

The topics given were:
1. Political Violence
2. Movies
3. Summer Heat
4. Gender Equality
5. Corruption in Institutions
6. Poverty Deaths
7. Social Media 
8. Fear of Exams

While talking about these issues they had to follow some rules like:
All the statements should be related to the society they were living in.Give enough space to your own experience in that subject. Talk about personal experiences if you can, connected with the issue. As far as possible don't generalize. Talk about specific details. Make your speech rich in ideas and ideals.

MORE EXERCISES

1. ENTERTAINING TOPIC INTRO Ex :Asked the student groups to introduce a new topic(for eg. Electric Cars) to the audience in an entertaining /engaging manner using creative communication techniques like Skits, Role Plays, Team Speeches, Conversational dramas etc...can be followed by Interaction and Discussion.

2. LIFE STORY Ex. : Asked the teams to do a Role play based on the best life story of a team member and then the audience has to guess who is that team member...can be followed by Interaction and Discussion.

3. WHAT IT TEACHES ME Ex. : Asked the teams to speak to the audience about an object in the classroom that teaches you something about life or about yourself or society and then the audience has to guess which is that object...can be followed by Interaction and Discussion.

4. IKIGAI Ex.: Asked the students to present a role-play where a eminent person shares his social mission with people and also how did he : follow his passion / pursue his profession and then find a mission to empower the people around him, his contributions to social well-being and change.

5. NO PAIN, NO GAIN Ex. : Asked the students to enact a situation that happened in their life where they had to take a tough decision regarding their future course of action and how did they succeed in making the right choice.

6. SHARING A FUNNY EXPERIENCE Ex. : Asked the students to talk about an experience from their life which was funny because it surprised them / made them feel like a fool / was silly, without any result / it lacked sense/ was an insult / something went wrong / it made people laugh.  

7. PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP / INTERACTION ALBUM Ex.

In this exercise you think/speak about a person whom you have met and :
a. Who made a striking first impression on you.
b. Then there were a few interactions which helped you understand him/her better.
c. Then talk about the impressions about that person which are lasting ones, stable and steady.

8. FRIENDSHIP IN RELATIONSHIPS Ex.

In this exercise the students, using a role-play, show a relationship that has some colours of a good friendship. For example:
a. Being non-judgmental.
b. Without comparisons
c. Help rendered without any formal request
d. Space for expressions rather than expectations
e. Ideas and thoughts instead of too much Questions 
f. Showing care over career and other aspects.
g. Conversations rather than explanations.

9.MIS/UNDERSTANDING IN COMMUNICATION 

In this exercise students talk about an experience from their life when they were misunderstood by someone or they misunderstood somebody and because of this misunderstanding in communication the relationship came to a standstill, making you/others feel sad/anxious/bitter/angry/ashamed/silly/stupid and then how did you try to mend the bridges.

10. BEFORE/AFTER AN INVENTION EXERCISE

In this exercise the students performed a role play which showed communication in a situation before/after an scientific invention was made for eg. telephone, radio, TV, mobile, Internet, Social Networking etc. Also they gave a speech and interacted with the audience about a popular brand that revolutionised an industry for eg. Nokia, Samsung, Facebook, WhatsUp, Google, IPhone, Philips etc.

11. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTER SPEECH EXERCISE

In this exercise asked the students to come to the front as a four member team and then: 
a. One of them will give a topic to the three members.
b. The person on the left/right will share a thought and then give a chance to the next person.
c. Then the person in the center will give a speech connecting both the ideas/thoughts.

12. BREAKING SOCIAL CODES EXERCISE

In this exercise the students in groups come and present a role play on: 
a. how they challanged old rules/customs/practices in society
b. how was the experience
c. were they successful 
d. whether people understood their point of view.

13. IMPERFECTIONS EXERCISE

In this exercise students speak about a situation when/where they felt they were imperfect ie ., lacked understanding, skill, knowledge, aptitude, temperament, experience, background, competence and how they helped themselves by pushing the boundaries and redefining themselves in the process.


14. MEN/WOMEN BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS EX.

Asked the students to do a role-play highlighting a particular pattern in behavior,communication,thinking or action with regard to men/women. 



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