This document provides tips and strategies for making learning English more interesting and effective. It suggests choosing topics of personal interest to read about daily, asking and answering your own questions, casual debates with classmates, thinking creatively about topics, and speaking about lessons publicly. Steps for better reading comprehension are outlined, such as carefully re-reading while underlining difficult words and thinking about understanding. The document also models writing styles and poems as examples and encourages developing public speaking skills through practice.

1. It’s EASIER
Said than done.
Learning English
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2. Learning English is not EASY
It’s not tough either

3. You Can Make it
Interesting

4. Chose topics of interest
• Daily dose of reading
• Time of reading
• Topic/subject of reading
• Daily dose of Writing
• Daily dose of Speaking
• Daily dose of listening
• Observing and questioning

5. Auto Learners

6. Some ways to make it interesting
1. Ask questions
Normally we get questions from others and
we try to answer it and
learning becomes tougher.
Now you prepare your questions and
find write your answers
to your own questions

7. Try this paragraph

8. Try this paragraph

9. Casual Debate
Post Lunch free time,
Assemble in the class and Choose
a topic of common interest.
Form two team A B and a Monitor
Debate seriously
Record everything,
Choose a feasible frequency

10. Steps for better comprehension
• Read carefully
• Think what you have understood
• Read again while you underline the tough
words
• Look up the dictionary
• Write down the most suitable meaning
underneath the paragraph
• Read again and think how better is your
understanding now

11. Steps for better comprehension
The new Plus Two (XII) text books have been
prepared by the Kerala State Council of
Educational Research and Training (SCERT). Those
who have not received the new text books can
download the pdf versions available from this
page for reference. The Reference for the first &
Second chapter available here till the text book
distribution is completed. Click the below link and
refer the new text book for Higher Secondary
Second Year (Plus Two) for better comprehension.

12. Can I ask you some questions?
1. What is the expansion of SCERT?
2. What is meant by pdf? Expand it.
3. One sentence in this paragraph is
grammatically inaccurate which sentence and
how?
4. Better comprehension- What is that?

13. Let’s do another exercise

14. Some ways to make it interesting
2. Think out of the box
Think of an incident you witnessed where women
Were discriminated from getting their
Think of an old social ritual of gender discrimination
(use mobile CS to continue, Mathrubhumi)

15. Some ways to make it interesting
2. Before going for a detailed study of a lesson
think of your present knowledge of that topic.
Simply write down whatever you
know about that topic
After doing the lesson thoroughly
with the help of your teacher,
read the paragraph you have written
Think of ways to better it on your own and
Write down paragraph on the new ideas you gained

16. New Lesson:

17. IMPORTANT
• Check the spelling of the author’s name
• Write the points you have understood
• Try Speaking about it publicly
• Can you write a stanza like that on any theme?

18. My Version
Men are weathered and strong
Men protects the world
And men works very hard
Men bring home honey and make life sweeter.

19. A mother’s prayer
“Take me not, till the children grow”
Can you explain what does it mean?

20. Think out of the box
About Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Prolific Irish author of more than a hundred novels, numerous poems, and five
autobiographical works. Her publications include Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of
Derrymore; The Land of Mist and Mountain; and Philippa's Lover.
Before Fame
She was associated with the Celtic Revival Movement, which sought to resurrect
classic Irish literature and values.
Trivia
Her Irish Catholic family all but disowned her for marrying a Protestant barrister.
Distancing herself from her roots, she pursued her literary career in England.
Family Life
She was born on a County Dublin dairy farm as the seventh child of Andrew Cullen
Tynan.
Associated With
She was a close associate of William Butler Yeats. Rumor has it that the two may
have been engaged at one point.

21. Jim Corbett

22. Listening
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpPL5-
9xY5E

23. Narrative Skills
Can you narrate effectively the story of
MATCHBOX
in your own words?
Who translated it into English?

24. Ashapurna Debi Gupta
Most of her writings marked a
spirited protest both for men and women,
against the inequality and injustice stemming from the
gender-based discrimination and narrowness of
outlook ingrained in traditional Hindu society.
Ashapurna Devi's stories lay threadbare the
oppression women have to face and made a fervent appeal
for a new social order, though not subscribing to
the modern theoretical feminism of western mode.
Her magnum opus, the trilogy
Pratham Pratishruti (1964),
Subarnolata (1967) and
Bakul Katha (1974),
symbolises an endless struggle for
women to achieve equal rights.

25. Horegallu
What do you
understand by the
word Horegallu?

26. Horegallu

27. Horegallu

28. Advertisement

29. Drink your tea to its lees?

30. Bit o’ grammar

31. Bit o’ grammar

32. Bit o’ grammar

33. Bit o’ grammar

34. Public Speaking Skill
Can you prepare a speech
on women empowerment and
deliver it effectively?

35. Lemme remind you
Read everyday
Prepare your own notes
Develop them to paragraphs
Try delivering speeches
Watch movies and listen to speeches
Observe everything keenly
Learn on your own
YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

36. THANK YOU
VERY MUCH
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