3. Pre-Viewing Task:
Answer the following questions:
1. How many years of Independence has
India completed?
2. What do you think has India achieved
so far?
3. What do you think will India achieve in
the coming times?
4. Will India become the SuperPower
Country?
4. While-Listening Task
• Listen to the audio clip carefully.
• You will not be able to listen or view this video here - Please download this video
from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiItWDN2Cs8)
• Pair work: wwyp write about your
understanding of the audio clip in 5-7
sentences.
5. Handouts of the
Transcript
• Compare your write up with the
transcript.
• Now re-view the audio-visual clip…
• (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzJj-PL-kPs)
8. Vocabulary Task
Synonyms
* Match the words given in column A with B:
Column A
1. Strain
2. Leash
3. Skepticism
4. Lurk
Column B
A. Cynicism
B. Creep around
C. Pull
D. Control
Click here for Answer
9. Vocabulary Task
Antonyms
* Match the words given in column A with B:
Column A
1. Optimism
2. Dynamic
3. Pulsating
4. Rise
Column B
A. Lethargic
B. Fall
C. Pessimism
D. Lacking energy
10. Etymology
• Origin of words:
• 1. Canter: to move or ride at a
canter. [Origin: 1745–55; short for
Canterbury to ride at a pace like that
of Canterbury pilgrims]
11. • Word History: Most of those who have majored in
English literature, and many more besides, know that
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were told by a group of
pilgrims on their way to Canterbury to visit the shrine
of England's famous martyr Thomas à Becket. Many
pilgrims other than Chaucer's visited Canterbury on
horse, and phrases such as Canterbury gallop,
Canterbury pace, and Canterbury trot described the
easy gait at which they rode to their destination. The
first recorded instance of one of these phrases,
Canterbury pace, is found in a work published before
1636. However, in a work written in 1631 we find a
shortened form, the noun Canterbury, meaning "a
canter," and later, in 1673, the verb Canterbury,
meaning "to canter." This verb, or perhaps the noun, was
further shortened, giving us the verb canter, first
recorded in 1706, and the noun canter, first recorded in
1755.
12. • Boycott: to abstain from buying or
using: to boycott foreign products.
• [Origin: after Charles C. Boycott
(1832–97), English estate manager
in Ireland, against whom nonviolent
coercive tactics were used in 1880
]
13. • Word History: Charles C. Boycott seems to have
become a household word because of his strong sense
of duty to his employer. An Englishman and former
British soldier, Boycott was the estate agent of the
Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. The earl was
one of the absentee landowners who as a group held
most of the land in Ireland. Boycott was chosen in the
fall of 1880 to be the test case for a new policy
advocated by Charles Parnell, an Irish politician who
wanted land reform. Any landlord who would not
charge lower rents or any tenant who took over the
farm of an evicted tenant would be given the
complete cold shoulder by Parnell's supporters.
Boycott refused to charge lower rents and ejected
his tenants. At this point members of Parnell's Irish
Land League stepped in, and Boycott and his family
found themselves isolated—without servants,
farmhands, service in stores, or mail delivery.
Boycott's name was quickly adopted as the term for
this treatment, not just in English but in other
languages such as French, Dutch, German, and
Russian.
14. READING TASK:
Put the following words/phrases in the appropriate
boxes:
[straining at the leash, eager to spring forth, leash, optimism,
skepticism, wants, hopes, follows, leads]
• One India
• ____________
• ___________
• ____________
• ____________
• Other India
• _____________
• _____________
• _____________
• _____________
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15. Grammar Task
• Change the transcript into past tense:
For example,
• One India lives/lived in the optimism of our
hearts.
• The other India lurks/lurked in the skepticism of
our minds.
• One India wants/wanted.
• The other India hopes/hoped.
• One India leads/led.
• The other India follows/followed.
16. Role Play Task
• The students will be asked to
reproduce the same dialogues from
the transcript keeping in mind stress
pattern, intonation, pauses etc.
17. Translation Task
• Students will be asked to translate the transcript
in their L1.
• For example.
―There are two Indias in this country…‖
―Is desh me do Bharat baste hai…‖
• List of difficult words can be given to make their
task easy:
Leash = Zanzir
• Students will be asked to view the following video
clip in translation and compare their translation.
• Download this video in Hindi from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEFMJgbLRaM
18.
19. • There are innumerable possibilities in
creating tasks in such audio-visual
resources.
• Many more things can be explored in
creating tasks for learners with the
help of film trailers, cartoon clips,
animations etc.
20. Reference:
• FELT-Focus on ELT. Journal of English
language Teaching, Chandigarh.
• ‗Innovation in ELT: Interactive Reading‘ by
Rajni Sharma. Pg.61-
68.(FELT:Vol.27,N0.1,April2007).
• Tickoo, M.L.(2003) Teaching and Learing
English: A Sourcebook for Teachers and
Teacher-Trainer. New Delhi:Orient
Longman.
• Alderson,J.Charles(2000)Assessing
Reading. Cambridge:CUP.
21. Vocabulary Task
Synonyms
* Match the words given in column A with B:
Column A
1. Strain
2. Leash
3. Skepticism
4. Lurk
Column B
A. Cynicism
B. Creep around
C. Pull
D. Control
Go back to the lesson
22. READING TASK:
Put the following words/phrases in the appropriate
boxes:
[straining at the leash, eager to spring forth, leash, optimism,
skepticism, wants, hopes, follows, leads]
• One India
• Straining at the
Leash
• Leash
• Skepticism
• follows
• Other India
• Eager to spring
forth
• Leads
• Optimism
• Leads
Go back to the lesson
