ENGLISH THE LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD TODAY

LANGUAGE IS…….. A TOOL- SOMETHING USED TO DO A JOB. IN THIS CASE TO COMMUNICATE. A SKILL- AN ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING WELL BECAUSE YOU HAVE LEARNED AND PRACTISED AN ART- TO REPRESENT OR EXPRESS IDEAS BEAUTIFULLY.

SKILLS TO BE LEARNT MACRO SKILLS LISTENINGSPEAKINGREADING WRITING

LISTENING LISTEN TO ONE ENGLISH NEWS SEGMENT EVERYDAY. MONITOR WHAT YOUR WARD WATCHES ON T.V. ENSURE THAT HE DOES NOT PICK UP SLANG AND INDECENT LANGUAGE.

SPEAKING ENCOURAGE YOUR WARD TO SPEAK ENGLISH AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. BE A ROLE MODEL – SPEAK THE LANGUAGE YOURSELF DISCOURAGE THE USE OF SLANG.

READING WE REMEMBER WHAT WE ENJOY READING. ENCOURAGE YOUR WARD TO READ. READ INDIAN AUTHORS WHO WRITE IN ENGLISH OR GOOD ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF HINDI BOOKS AND NOVELS.

READING STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ABLE TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES. COMPREHENSION GOES HAND IN HAND WITH READING. TEXT SHOULD BE READ ALOUD. A DICTIONARY MUST BE USED TO FIND MEANINGS AND USAGE OF NEW UNFAMILIAR WORDS.

WRITING A GOOD WRITTEN PIECE HAS TWO COMPONENTS – CLARITY AND HONESTY. FORMAL LANGUAGE SHOULD BE USED TO WRITE. ATTENTION TO BE PAID TO PROPER PUNCTUATION MARKS, NEATNESS AND FORMATS.

WRITING GOOD WORDS, IDIOMS, PHRASES, PROVERBS, QUOTATIONS USED WHILE DOING WRITING SKILLS ADD TO ITS QUALITY AND GET THE STUDENT BROWNIE POINTS. A ROUGH DRAFT MUSST BE MADE BEFORE WRITING THE FINAL PIECE. GOOD HANDWRITING AND NEATNESS ARE ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.

MICRO SKILLS SKILLS PRONUNCIATION GRAMMAR VOCABULARY SPELLINGS

PRONUNCIATION CLOSELY RELATED TO LISTENING AND SPEAKING TAKE HELP OF A DICTIONARY WHENEVER IN DOUBT CORRECT PRONUNCIATION WILL REDUCE SPELLING ERRORS.

SPELLINGS CLOSELY RELATED TO READING AND AFFECTS WRITING. BREAK UP THE WORD. READ AND LISTEN CAREFULLY. PRONOUNCE EACH SYLLABLE CAREFULLY AND CLEARLY.

SOME MISSPELT WORDS BOUNDARIES GOVERNMEMT INTERESTED WRITING THEIR GRAMM A R PRINCIP AL TOG E THER DESCRIBE DEFINITE CHIEF OCCASION CAREFUL HABIT ACCEPT –EXCEPT

GRAMMAR INTEGRAL TO ACCURACY. INFLUENCED BY LISTENING AND READING AFFECTS WRITING. PRACTICE MAKES THE CHILD PERFECT. CAN BE IMPROVED - PLAY VARIOUS WORD GAMES.

VOCABULARY GOOD VOCABULARY MAKES COMMUNICATION EASY AND EFFECTIVE. READ VORACIOUSLY. USE THE DICTIONARY WHENEVER REQUIRED. REGULAR USE OF THESAURUS FOR SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS.

READ READ READ NEWS PAPER ARTICLES MAGAZINES STORY BOOKS CROSSWORDS WORD PUZZLES

DICTIONARY OR THESAURUS DICTIONARY – GIVES PRONUNCIATION, ORIGIN, PART OF SPEECH AND USAGE THESAURUS – LISTS SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS FOR A GIVEN WORD THE TWO COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER

TIPS FOR A BETTER VOCABULARY BE A WORD EXPLORER – LOOK OUT FOR NEW WORDS BE A WORD DETECTIVE – FIND OUT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN ABOUT A NEW WORD BE A WORD USER – FIND WAYS TO USE NEW WORDS

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