Step II: Learning English: Basic concepts

Hi friends, Thanks a lot for the likes. I am overwhelmed to see the number of likes and page views increasing day by day… Thanks to the power of infinity J

Now, let’s come to the topic…

Friends, if you are reading this blog for the first time, I would like you read last two blogs as well so that you can understand the fundamentals of English learning.

For those who have been following this post right from the beginning, folks, hope you followed the guidelines given in the last blogpost and tried to acquire the basic vocabulary. If yes, then you are all ready to move to step II. J

Step II is basic sentence structure. The basic sentence structure has three parts:

1. Subject is usually a Noun/pronoun. E.g. Shekhar, Delhi, Almirah, He, I, we etc…

2. Verbs are of two types: Helping verb and main verb.

E.g. of helping verbs are is/am/ are/ was/were etc.

E.g. of Main verbs are go, eat, sleep and so on.

3. Noun/verb/adjective: Hope you learnt the basic vocabulary of noun/verb/adjective suggested in the last post J

The following table will help you understand the agreement of subject and helping verb:

	Present				Past				Future
He, she, it, singular noun	does	V1+s/es	is	has	did	V2	was	had	will/shall
I	do	V1	am	have	did	V2	was	had	will/shall
We, you, they, plural noun	do	V1	are	have	did	V2	were	had	will/shall

V¹ - stands for first form of verb

V²- stands for second form of verb

Singular noun- 1 person/place/thing

Plural noun- more than 1 person/place/thing

So Folks, try to grab the concepts explained above. We would learn the types of sentences in the next post. Promise me that you would try to work on the concepts explained above. J

Feel free to ask me questions by posting them comment on this post. I would try to help you in every way possible. That’s my promise!

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Happy learning!!!

 

Learning English Step by Step: Beginning of a course

First of all, I would like to thank everyone for liking this blog! I am overwhelmed to see the number of likes and page views increasing day by day… Thanks a lot.

Now, before I start writing on this topic, I would like to define the target audience of this blog. During my training years, there were some sentences which I heard over and over again:

·       “Ma’am, English samajh to lete hai par bolni nahi aati”

·       “Ma’am, English bol to leta hu but hesitation hoti hai”

·       “Ma’am, English aati to hai but confident nahi hu isliye suru se suru karke English sikhna chahata hu”

·       Ma’am, English aati hai but thoda aur polish karna chahata hu” etc. etc.

If you have also said one of these sentences sometime in your life, then, this blog is for you

Chalo phir suru se suru karte hai J

My further posts would be based on the modules I prepared during my training years. So, if you promise to stay with me throughout my posts, I promise that you would be able to observe improvement in your language skills day by day. All you have to do is to follow the guidelines step by step and follow the suggestions. Also, feel free to ask me questions by posting them as comment on this post and I would try to help you in every way possible. That’s my promise!

Now, Let’s start :

Step 1: Grab a list of basic vocabulary: a few basic words from each part of speech. You would need to take help of a grammar book and prepare the list based on your level. e.g.

Nouns: Names of things that you can see around you but do not know what they are called in English such as names of things in your kitchen, washroom, drawing room, names of various relations, professions, diseases etc. (In case you are not able to find their English name, post your question, I would try to help you out )

Pronoun : Understand the use of all the pronouns (Would explain the ‘Use of pronouns’ in another blogpost). There are basically four categories of pronouns, you do not need to know their names, all you need to know is the use of pronouns

Similarly, basic vocabulary of various verbs, preposition, conjunctions, determiners, Adjectives, Adverbs and so on

You do not have to learn these topics in detail at this stage; all you need to do is to find the examples of these parts of speech and understand their meaning.  For instance, you should know the meaning of various adverbs such as immediately, seldom, rarely, often etc.

Once you grab the basic vocabulary depending on your level, you are all set to learn various sentence structures.

Next blogpost would be on various sentence structures and how to get mastery over them.

But before I write the next blogpost, promise me that you would refer to a grammar book and try to learn the vocabulary of various parts of speech as per your language level. You can refer to a dictionary to find out the answers or post your questions; I would try to help you in every way possible!

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Happy learning!!!  

A Tribute to Teachers

 

"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." -- Nikos Kazantzakis

Indeed! Reading these lines make me feel so good… It makes me feel-I am one of the luckiest people on the earth… All my life, Almighty has blessed me with wonderful teachers…Teachers who facilitated my crossing and teachers who encouraged me to create my own bridges…  

Teacher- A word that brings in many wonderful thoughts to my mind, a word that cannot be defined in a few words… My friends, I owe a lot to my teachers... Do you? If you do, please express it to them!

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In addition to teaching subjects, they teach us values: they teach us to appreciate things around us, they teach us to face problems with a smile, they teach us time management, change management, anger managementJ, they teach us… Well! The list is endless!

Their encouragement, motivation, appreciation, criticism, rebukes go a long way in making us confident individuals who can stand and face the world tomorrow! 

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I wish to thank all my teachers for making my life meaningful!

Happy Teacher’s Day ma’am…

And Happy Teacher’s Day MaaJ!

 

Journey of a Content Writer and a Trainer

Grade VII turned out to be a turning point of my life! A below average student, with negligible knowledge of English language, became a fan of an English teacher and that’s how the journey began!

I slogged myself day and night in order to improve my English language skills knowing that the only way to approach her is by being a good student!

(An exclusive blog on how I improved my Language skills- Coming soonJ ).

Thanks to the Almighty above, she noticed my hard work and we started talking to each other. With the passage of time, she became my “guru” guiding me in every way possible.

To express my gratitude towards her, I wrote a free verse and shared it with my friends. My friends really liked it and suggested me to send it for publishing… An under-confident student that I was, I shrugged off the idea completely! After a few days, due to persistent ‘pressure’ from my friends, I sent it just to close up this matter with my friends!

Surprisingly, it got published in the student edition of a leading newspaper!  The attention that I received from my headmistress, my teachers and my classmates simply ‘delighted’ me and encouraged me to write more! I wrote another piece, sent it and that got published too! Then I sent another and another and another…..

The regular publishing of poems/articles made me a ‘popular’ student of my school. It also brought some felicitations and awards my way from the newspaper authorities as well as from my school! Looking back, I ‘savoured’ my journey from a below average student to a ‘popular’ student

Phase II

BUT! It all came to an end when I completed schooling because student edition used to publish write-ups of school students only! New environment of college, where I was ‘no one’ hit me badly. After going through ‘identity crisis’ for a few months, I started writing shayari which some teachers/students of my college liked and I started comparing some functions of my college in shayarana andaaz. I became known in college, not as ‘well known’ as I was in school. But my School ‘English teacher’ always motivated me.

While I was pursuing Bachelors in education, one of my acquaintances asked me if I was interested in working as a translator, as one of her relative wanted some text to be translated from Hindi to English! Another asked me to write some promotional creative SMSs for her relative… Yet another asked me if I was interested in writing science chapters for her friend who is working as an editor for a publishing house!  My ‘English Teacher’ asked me if I would write contents for her friend’s website!

Feeling a little hesitant and apprehensive in the beginning, I told all of them that I would give their work a try! I tried and most of them liked the work too! That’s how I started writing professionally! During college vacations, I worked as a full time content writer in KPO process…

I also taught English in various institutes during my college days and school days too. After completing my education degree, I worked as an English teacher and then as an English Trainer and continued writing for some clients …

Now-a- days, I am working as a freelance trainer, content writer, Editor, Proof Reader, for various clients such as web developers, educational organizations, Book publishers and the likes!  

Contact me @ preetihans16@gmail.com