Four ways of learning English:
1. Follow an online news portal
2. Follow an online dictionary/Download a dictionary app (OALD, Merriam-Webster, Collins)
3. Work on your grammar - use books like Raymond Murphy's
4, Watch English language movies/listen to radio broadcasts online
1. Basic English :
About the course, learning to speak - formal and informal
Resources: Obama's Speech, Basic English PPT, Rules of Public speaking
2. Learning to Use Verbs
patriotism, vocabulary on nationalism,
Text: Letter to My Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru
Resources: Verbs PPT, List of irregular verbs 1, List of irregular verbs 2, Using Infinitives
Vocabulary: Patriotism
3. War and Peace
Discussion: Poetry, War and Peace
Text: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson, PPT War and Peace
Vocabulary: War terms in the poem , Talking about War
Grammar Topics: Agreement of the Verb with the Subject, past tense, Agreement of the Verb 2
Lesson 4: Endangered Species
Text: Elephant and the Cassowary by Ruskin Bond
Vocabulary: How do we remember words?, Vocabulary PPT
Grammar Topics: Collocations and Phrasal Verbs
Lesson 5: Future Tense
Text: Texts: An Astrologer's Day by R K Narayan
Grammar Topics: Expressing time: Verbs and Tenses: Future Tense and its uses.
Speaking Activities: Knowing your future, asking questions
Lesson 6: India past and present
Topics: Sports and environment in Colonial and present day India
Grammar: Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases
Composition: Compare/Contrast essay
Text: Kunwar Singh from My India
Lesson 7: Resumes and CVs
Lesson 8: Writing Reports
Topics; Various Kinds of Reports
UN report, Wipro Annual report,
Digital Content regulation report,
Facebook Moderation Newspaper report
Cloud computing and insights (IBM)
Following reports for format:
Lesson 9: Group Discussion
Lesson 10: Blogging it
Writing an Essay - Harvard Writing Centre
Mental Health: A therapist's view
Lesson 11: God and Faith
Text: Pied Beauty by GM Hopkins
Lesson 12: Love Poems and Relationships
Topics: What is a love poem? How to write a love poem? How did Shakespeare write his sonnets?
Comprehension: Relationships
Text: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Lesson 13: Final Reading