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Note to the Teachers

The activities given in worksheets are designed to improve the language competence of the children. Teachers are expected to administer them in their classes in addition to that use the following suggested areas in your regular classes to improve the basic language skills in the children:
Reading Comprehension
Word Attack Skills like Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms, Hetrophones, Homophones, Homographs, Contractions, Acronyms and general Abbreviations etc.

Transfer of information like gap filling, elaborating, expanding etc.
Multiple choice questions (MCQ): Needs to be reliable and credible with discreet point choice.

Jumbled up sentences/words/paragraphs/story etc
Interchange among Parts of Speech or Class Words like Nominalization, making verbs, adjectives, adverbs (Content words) etc.
Usage of Function Words like Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections etc.
One word substitution
Matching words, phrases, idioms etc
Extrapolation
Composition
News paper clippings
Collocation
Elocutions/debating/extempore/Morning assembly address
Letter to the Editor
Telephone conversation
Dialogues
Mock Radio / TV shows
Listening Skills – Radio and TV shows / Railway announcements/Airport announcements/etc
Command of Scouts and Guides /Cubs and Bulbuls/ NCC etc.
Developing paragraph / story etc. with the help of clues.
Fun with Tongue Twisters
Making more words with the help of a word given.
Usage of the words in sentences – in same/different context.
Construction of News items and designing News Paper: Source: News Paper Generator from Google
Arranging Mock Parliament
Arranging Village Fair/Market: Shopkeepers and Customers role
Mock Interview Board including GDPI
Arranging Journalist’s Interview
Article Writing
Poster Designing
Effective Projects: Assigning the students to watch/listen to some specific programmes in TV/Radio. Assigning writing and speech task on those-may be individual or group assignment.
Basic language transformations in language contexts: Voice, Direct & Indirect, Tense, Mood, Remove ‘too’, Modal Auxiliaries, Interchange among different parts of speech like using a particular words into different class content words like Noun, Verb, Adjective and Adverb, transformation among different sentence types.
Activities related to Number, Gender, Person and Case
Rapid fire type questions, quizzes and puzzles for Achievement Tests.
Effective and motivating activities on other important and basic grammar areas like Punctuation, Tense forms and Time Concept, Modal Auxiliaries, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Clause Analysis, synthesis etc
Role plays, PBL (Project Based Learning) and ABL (Activity Based Learning), Learning while doing activities with lot of fun and humour.
Creative writing and public speaking.
Crossword Puzzles, Cartoons, Drawing and Painting based activities etc
Relating classroom to outer world and nature related activities
Encouraging students to read and use the information given in the fables, Parables, Mythological stories, Science fictions, Legends, moral and inspirational, other general stories in their scholastic and co-scholastic areas and activities.
Relating Games and Sports, Scout & Guide, Cub & Bulbul, NCC etc. related activities to writing and speech tasks.
Bringing newspapers, magazines, periodicals, comics etc. for basic language skills (LSRW) and Grammar, phonetics and composition activities.
Take classroom to outside world through your activities full of real life situations.


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