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Dr. Dilip BaradDr. Dilip Barad

Department of English, Department of English,

Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar University

dilipbarad@gmail.comdilipbarad@gmail.com

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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?

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.

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)

Post-Viewing Task• Vocabulary: Synonyms, Antonyms

& Etymology• Reading• Grammar• Role Play: Speaking Task• Translation

Vocabulary Task Synonyms

* Match the words given in column A with B:

Column A1. Strain2. Leash3. Skepticism4. Lurk

Column BA. CynicismB. Creep aroundC. PullD. Control

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Vocabulary Task Antonyms

* Match the words given in column A with B:

Column A1. Optimism2. Dynamic3. Pulsating4. Rise

Column BA. LethargicB. FallC. PessimismD. Lacking energy

Etymology• Origin of words:

• 1. CanterCanter: to move or ride at a canter. [Origin: 1745–55; short for Canterbury to ride at a pace like that of Canterbury pilgrims]

• 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.

• BoycottBoycott: : to abstain from buying or to abstain from buying or using: using: to to boycottboycott foreign products. foreign products.

• [Origin: after Charles C. [Origin: after Charles C. BoycottBoycott (1832–97), English estate manager in (1832–97), English estate manager in Ireland, against whom nonviolent Ireland, against whom nonviolent coercive tactics were used in 1880 ]coercive tactics were used in 1880 ]

• 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.

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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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.

Role Play Task

• The students will be asked to reproduce the same dialogues from the transcript keeping in mind stress pattern, intonation, pauses etc.

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

• 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.

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.

Vocabulary Task Synonyms

* Match the words given in column A with B:

Column A1. Strain2. Leash3. Skepticism4. Lurk

Column BA. CynicismB. Creep aroundC. PullD. Control

Go back to the lesson

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