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Understanding Noun: Big Step Forward to Explain Literary Texts

 I wanted to do it very long ago, but I could not. Now, finally I am settled to do it. In our country students are taught English Language through English Literature. General practice is to teach literature and grammar separately. I mean it is very rare that literature and grammar are interlinked in some intelligent way. Consequently, most of our students find English a difficult branch of knowledge, and they underperform in this subject. I have made up my mind that I will prepare lessons by interlinking literature and grammar. This is the first in this series of lessons. In this lesson we will discuss nouns. We will discuss everything that students need to know about nouns, so they could handle them to understand and produce language. We will discuss: ·          What are nouns? ·          Where a noun comes in a sentence? ·          How many kinds are t...

Teaching of Vocabulary

Teaching of Vocabulary at High School & College Vocabulary is one of the most important sub-skills of language. The more vocabulary of a language you have, the more effectively you understand a speech and produce the language in order to convey your meanings. The sad thing about our country is at high school and college level we use very much obsolete techniques to teach and learn vocabulary. Consequently, most of our students remain weak in vocabulary with limited number of words at their disposal to convey meanings. Do we learn or teach vocabulary as something vital? I have worked with countless students, and it is indeed a very rare thing that I meet students who are very good at using words in their writing and speaking. I am talking of students who have completed their high school and college and are studying at higher levels. Because of poor vocabulary students find it very hard understand text. So, their comprehension also suffers. Mostly these weaknesses make them carrier...

Changing Direct Speech into Indirect Speech Worksheet # !

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Changing Direct Speech into Indirect Speech Quiz # 1

Changing Direct into Indirect Quiz # 1 Index => Changing Direct into Indirect Quiz # 1 Quiz Show all questions <=   => You said to him, “I teach in a college.” Correct indirect of this speech is: ?   You told him that you had taught in a college. ?   You told him that you have taught in a college. ?   You told him that you taught in a college. ?   You told him that I taught in a college. They said to us, “We are good human beings.”Correct indirect of this speech is: ?   They told us that we were good human beings. ?   They told us that they were good human beings. ?   They told us that they are good human beings. ?   They told us that we are good human beings. He said to me, “You are late.” Correct indirect of this speech is: ?   He told me that I ...

Active Voice & Passive Voice Quiz # 1

Active Passive Conversion Test # 1 Index => Active Passive Conversion Test # 1 Quiz Show all questions <=   => Government is making this repoert public. Passive Voice of this sentence is: ?   This report is made public by government. ?   This report is being made public by government. ?   Government will make this report public. ?   Government was making this report public. He lost his life on border. Passive Voice of this sentence is: ?   He is losing his life on border. ?   His life is lost on border by him. ?   His life was lost on border by him. ?   His life were lost on border by him. I never misss a chance. Passive Voice of this sentence is: ?   A chance is never missed by me. ?   A chance was never missed by me. ?   A chance are never missed by me. ?   ...