Practice makes man perfect
Bedre Foundation
Non-Formal Education, Research and Training Institute
Teacher's Colony, Samskrithi Nagar
Chitradurga
Launches
"One Minute English Course"
Bedre Foundation has been conducting "Applied English Course" and "Basic English Course" batches since 1985. It was started in Shimoga as ‘National Institute of English’. In 1991 the institution was shifted to Chitradurga and it was re-named as ‘Shanthinikethan Institute of English’. In 2002 a new ‘Language Laboratory’ was added to it at Bedre Foundation, Sanskrithi Nagar, Teacher’s Colony, Chitradurga.
Many new teaching items were produced at the institute to help the teachers and students. A few books were published by Bedre Publications. More than 600 batches were given training.
During this ‘Summer Vacation’ the Foundation is conducting two batches for the benifit of the lovers of English.
VENUE : BASE INFOTEC COMPUTERS
Beside V G TEX, Near Shankar Talkies, Laxmi Bazar, Chitradurga.
Batch Timings : 6.15 a.m. to 7.45 a.m.
Course Duration : 30-03-2008 to 30-04-2008
01-05-2008 to 31-05-2008
For further details please contact :
94485 - 89089 bedre.manjunath@gmail.com
95 - 8194 - 228074 bedre_manjunath@yahoo.co.in
APPLIED ENGLISH COURSE
WHAT DO WE LEARN ?
Day 1 : Introduction - Importance of learning English - Importance of modern Educational Technology in the process of learning English - Importance of Language Games - Oral, Paper and Pencil , Toys and Electronic Games - Importance of Spoken and Written language - The role of Media in lanugage learning - English for Specific Purposes.
Day 2 : Language - Definition - Spoken, Written and Symbolic languages - Own language and Other languages - Phonetic and Syllabic - Skills of learning a language - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing - Skills of comprehension and Skills of expression.
Language Game ~ Hangman Game.
Day 3 : Language - Tools - Speech - Speech Units (Sentences) - Words - Letters (Alphabet). Letters -Definition - Sounds and Symbols - International Phonetic Alphabet - Different writing styles - on the line, above the line and below the line - Importance of writing practice - Graphology (Science dealing with handwriting) - Handwriting and Personality Development . Language Game ~ Word Building
Day 4 : Words - Definition - Vocabulary and Word Power - Syllables -Spelling Rules - Kinds of words - Simple - Compound - Derivative (Prefixes and Suffixes). Language Game ~ Last First.
Day 5 : Words - Antonyms and Synonyms - (Thesaurus) - Homonyms - Homophones - Homographs - Paronyms - Eponyms - Acronyms and Abbreviations - Anagram - Palindrome - One word substitution - etc. Language Game ~ Match Stick Game
Day 6 : Words - Dictionary - Uses - Types - Phonetic Dictionary - Picture Dictionary - Reverse Dictionary - E - Dictionaries etc. Language Game ~ Dictionary Game
Day 7 : Group of Words - Sentences - Clause - Phrase - Idioms
Speech Units (Sentences) -Definition - Kinds of Sentences
Language Game ~ I see, with my eye...
Day 8 : Parts of Speech Units - PIVANCAP - Noun Group (Noun - Pronoun - Adjective), Verb Group ( Verb - Adverb) - Other Group ( Preposition - Conjunction - Interjection) .
Language Game ~ Word Chains.
Day 9 : Parts of Speech (Continued)
Language Game ~ Laddergram.
Day 10 : Parts of Speech (Continued)
Language Game ~ Word Rummy
Day 11 : Review of Parts of Speech - Introducing Basic Sentence Structures - Composition of Sentences.
1. V1 1 (a) Do + V1 1 (b) Don’t + V1
Go. Do go. Don’t go.
2. V1 + C / O 2 (a) Do + V1 + C /O 2 (b) Don’t + V1 + C/O
Go there. Do go there. Don’t go there.
3. Subject + Verb1 3 (a) S + Do/Does + V1
I go. I do go. I don’t go.
4. Subject + Verb2 4 (a) S + Did + V1
I went. I did go. I didn’t go.
Lanugage Game ~ Scrabble / Dice Boggle
Day 12 : Basic Structures (contd.)
5. S + V1 + Comp. 5 (a) S +(do/does) + not + V1 + Comp. I go there. I don’t go there.
6. S + V2 + Comp. 6 (a) S + did n’t + V1 + Comp. I went there. I didn’t go there.
7. S + V1 + O 7 (a) S +(do/does+ not) + V1 + O I write letters. I don’t write letters.
8. S + V2 + O 8 (a) S + did + V1 + O
I wrote letters. I didn’t write letters.
Language Game ~ Anagram Game
Day 13 : Basic structures (contd.)
9. S + V1 + O + Comp.
9 (a) S + (do/does + not) + V1 + O + Comp.
I write letters everyday.
I don"t write letters everyday.
10. S + V2 + O + Comp.
10 (a) S + ( didn’t) + V1 + O + Comp.
I wrote letters yesterday.
I didn’t write letters yesterday.
11. S + Be + S.C. 11 (a) S + Be + Adjective
11 (a) S + Be + Adjective + N
I am a student. I am brilliant. I am a brilliant student.
Language Game ~ Sentence Game.
Day 14 : The Tense - Definition - Degrees of the Tenses
Simple Present Simple Past
S + V1 + O S + V2 + O
I write letters. I wrote letters.
Present Continuous Past Continuous
S + Be + (V+ing) + O S + Be + (V+ing) + O
I am writing letters. I was writing letters.
Language Game ~ Dice Boggle.
Day 15 : The Tense (contd.)
Present Perfect Past Perfect
S + Have + P.P. + O S + Had + P.P. + O
I have written letters. I had written letters.
Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
S + Have +Been +(V + ing) +O S+Had+ Been +(V + ing ) I have been writing letters. I had been writing letters.
Language Game ~ Prefixes and Suffixes.
Day 16 : Tenses (Contd)
Simple Future Future Continuous
S + M.Ax. + V1 + O S + M.Ax. + Be + (V + ing) + O
I shall write letters. I shall be writing letters.
Future Perfect Future Perfect Continuous
S + M.Ax. + Have + P.P. + O
I shall have written letters.
S + M.Ax. + Have + Been +(V +ing) + O
I shall have been writing letters.
Present Compulsive S + Have + (to + V1) + O
Past Compulsive S + Had + (to + V1) + O Future Compulsive S + M.Ax. + Have + (to + V1) + O
I have to write letters. I had to write letters. I shall have to write letters.
Language Game ~ The Tense Game.
Day 17 : Question Forms - Definition - "Wh" - Inverted ( yes / no) - Tag Questions - Detailed analysis of the Assertive and Interrogative Sentence Structures -
S + Ax. + V + .......... = Assertive (.)
Ax. + S + V + ...........? = Interrogative (?)
Wh. + Ax. + S + V + ............? = Interrogative (?)
S + Ax. + V ......... , Ax. + not + S ? = Interrogative (?)
S + Ax. + not + V....... , Ax. + S ? = Interrogative (?)
Language Game ~ What’s in a name ?
Day 18: Introducing various formats of "Spoken English" -
Single - Double - Multiple
Language Game ~ Dialogue Development
Day 19 : Voice - Active and Passive - Detailed discussion of all the rules and structures (Assertive format)
Language Game ~ Riddles.
Day 20 : Voice (contd.)
Language Game ~ Verb/Sentence
Day 21 : Speech - Direct and Indirect
Language Game ~ Pictionary Game
Day 22 : Speech (contd.) Language Game ~ Speech Game.
Day 23 : Composition - Introduction - Definition - Varieties - Sentences, Paragraphs, Gudied composition, Picture Composition
Language Game ~ Story telling Game
Day 24 : Composition - Elaboration and Precis
Day 25 : Composition - With the help of Stamps, Currency Notes,
Picture Cards, Calendars, Posters etc.
Day 26 : Composition (contd.) Guided composition
Day 27 : Comprehension - Model passages
Day 28 : Letter writing - Model letters and Practical
Day 29 : Essay Writing - Types of essays - method of developing ideas / points into various paragrahs and composing an essay.
Day 30 : Miscellaneous Topics - Figures of Speech - Vocabulary improvement with the help modern media - Literature - Importance of reading good articles - Personality Development - Ideals of Education - Aacademic excellence, Development of skills and Moral / Education - The role of language teacher in the all round development of a student - Neuro Linguistic Programming, Socio-Linguistics, Psycho-linguistics, Body Langauge (Kinesics) - IQ - EQ - VQ - SQ - KQ etc.
Bedre’s Multi-Media Approach
