306. ENGLISH PARICHAYAM

ENGLISH  PARICHAYAM

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QUESTIONS:- 1.      Why should we learn English? 2.      Whose mother tongue is English? 3.      Oxford University 4.      What is Dictionary? 5.      What is Thesaurus? 6.      What is Word power? 7.      What is Englishes? TYPES:- English is an easy language. 1.      no gender  English is a hard language. 1.      Spelling  2.      Pronunciation 3.      Synonyms 4.      Confusing 1] -s = air, water, Have-haves,  water-waters,  people-peoples,  arm-arms,  wood-woods,  air-airs,  good-goods,  force-forces,  physic-physics,  2] capital confusion= China-china,  atlas-Atlas, eve-Eve may-May god-God, act-Act 3] joined/ [or] separated = All right-alright,  all though-although,  all ways-always, a bed-a bed 4] nearest pronunciation = Alter-altar,  angel-angle,  fare-fair,  wonder-wander,  eruption-irruption differ-defer 5] nearest meaning = Invention-discovery,  corpse-carcass,  able-capable,  revolution-evolution,  assassinate-murder,  human-humane,  battle-war, see-look,  6] –e = Cloths-clothes,  corps-corpse,  cast-caste,  rap-rape,  win-wine,  bell-belle,  7] Pronunciation = Wind,  good,  lead,  tear,  can,  contract,  Rama,  read,  beat,  object,  8] active X passive Guest-host,  examiner – examinee,   employer-employee, creator – creature, vendor x vendee Lesser x lessee,  5.      Vocabulary   6.      Jargon English is an ever green language. 1.      adding new words 2.      obsolete are removed 3.      new meaning is given    English is an ever revised language. Words of new subjects added English is a Qhatarnaq language. Even a Ph. D. student can say the spelling of a new word.

How English words are formed? 1. from proper nouns Boycott,  Xanthippe, Gandhi 2. Compounding words Laptop, into, 3. Acronyms LASER, 4. Foreign languages Idli,  anicut, ad hoc, bungalow 5. synthetic words Forex,  modem, sensex, 6. Roots Half-semi-hemi,  anti-, audi, audo. Bio,  7. Denotation & Connotation Raja,  comrade,  How to develop English? 1.      100 quotations 2.      100 block language words 3.      Poems 4.      Jargon words 5.      100 proverbs 6.      Attend seminars 7.      Daily news 8.      Reading books 9.      Seeing English movies 10.    Spelling games Great People Father of English literature                G  Chaucer Greatest dramatist of all times          William Shakespeare Greatest dramatist of modern times   GB  Shaw The first English dictionary writer     Samuel Johnson The first Thesaurus writer                  Dr. Roget Nature poet                                         William Wordsworth Blind poet                                           Milton Melodious poet                                  Sarojini Naidu Greatest essayist                                AG Gardener English  G. K. The authority to revise, amend..English dictionary                                                                 Oxford University No. of words in English                     more than 10,00,000 10,00,000th word is                            web 2.0 Smallest word in English                   I,  a,  O Longest word in English                                  flaccipausinausiinihilibilification All the words related to a subject     jargon Types of English                UK, USA, Canada, Australia Englishes