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Expert lecture on ELT prof. Atanu Bhattacharya.

On  25th, 26th and 27th January 2020 we had the expert lecture on ELT by Atanu Bhattacharya. In that lecture Sir has talked about the History of ELT, Literature for Language Teaching : poem & Fiction, Testing & Evaluation : validity, Realizability & Washback. He began his talk with the History of English Language Teaching. This history is devided in to five part. The Classical. Middle Age. Renaissance. 17th and 18th Century. 19th and Early 20th century.  Then he talked about the IPA; International  Phonetic Acossication. In 1880 IPA realized that it is important to teach spoken language. Because outside the world how we spoke is important. They also say that it is important to teach sounds. For that they give the idea of  received pronunciation (RP).  Then he also talked about the Two method. 1. Audio - lingual Method 2. Communicative Language Teaching method. He also talked about the Five mejor fiction in English. ...

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallow Group Task and Learning outcome

Hello Readers, This presentation is part of our group task. And also we have to write learning outcome. In the learning outcome we have to write that from this text what we come to know and also we want we learn and realized from it. Harry potter from JeelVyas1 Before talking about What I have learned from Harry Potter. I want to talk about somethings. When any child just listened about the Harry Potter they get excited. But on my part I was bit different then them. As a child I never fascinated with the Harry Potter. The reason of that I actually don't know but the way other child got attracted I never get attracted to wards the Harry Potter. Everyone who came to know that I don't like Harry Potter thinks that I am silly. when as a group we decided that we will take Harry Potter as topic of group task I am very confused that " How I am going to deal with Harry Potter? " But then I have to deal with Harry Potter. When I told my friend that I do...

Web quest Activity on Harry Potter

Hello Readers,  We (Jeel Vyas and Ashish Pidhadiya) are studying  in Department of English of Bhavanger University. On 15th January 2020 our HOD and Professor Dr. Dilip Barad introduce us with the new activity Which is Web Quest activity. We have to do this activity while watching the Film Serious of Harry Potter. To know what is Web Quest Click Here . Sir has provided us some of the topic which are mentioned below. while waiting Movie we have try to find example of the topic mentioned below. And we have to find out three veluable resources and try to look at the main argument of the resource. Topic given by sir : Feminist reading of Harmonie's charachar in Harry Potter. Discuss on purity of Blood and Harry Potter. Confronting reality by reading fantasy. Self help culture and Harry Potter .The Discourse of power and politics in Harry Potter. Children's Literature and Harry Potter. Sepculative Literature and Harry Potter.  The theme of choice and chan...

Web Quest activity on Harry Potter.

This blog is part of my web quest activity. To know about it please  click here . To view argument on first and second topic please  click here . 3. The discourse of power and politics in Harry Potter:  When we see Harry Potter we realized that in this also we find the power politics. The first article is titled as,  "  The Politics of Harry Potter: Corrupt Law and Totalitarian Government. "   The author of the article is Samantha Love. In this article author compare our parliament with Harry Potter's ministry of magic. And says that,   "In JK Rowling’s famous books, the Ministry of Magic has an incredible amount of power with very few ways of ensuring it is used properly."  The author further add that, '  It is a good study in how  not  to organize a state, and it’s through using examples from the series that we can really begin to understand how important it is that...

Web Quest activity on Harry Potter.

As  I have mentioned in my previous blog that I will take about two topic in my each blog. So here in this blog I will talk about first two topics.  1. Feminist reading of character of Harmione in Harry Potter.   The first article  titled as,  "Harry Potter through the Focus of Feminist Literary Theory: Examples of (Un)Founded Criticism."  The author of this article is  Krunoslav MIKULAN . In this article author says that in Harry Potter we see that girls do have any significant role. Thought Harmione works with the Harry she has very less contribution in physical fight. But she is good with library work. Apart from Harmonie author also give the example of Goblet of fire. There was only girl in the compition  named as Fleur. But we also see that she was not able to complete whole task. And in lake task she was the one who quit. In short author believe that this Novel is boy centric. In this Novel we won't have g...

Thinking activity : The Da Vinci Code

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book. This is a quote by the sir leigh Teabing who is a character of the Novel Da Vinci Code by the  Dan Brown. Around this Novel there is lots of controversy we see the reason is that this novel talk about the blood line of Jesus.   When we look at the idea of Original sin  from Genesis we also see that there is also written that because God don't like that Adam and Eve eat the fruit of knowledge and they send them to Earth. And also church believe that we all born sinful. When. We look at the narrative of it we can say that if God don't want Adam and Eve to eat fruit then why he make that fruit. And also there is a question tha...

Expert lecture on waiting for Barbarians.

" Pain is truth; all else is subject to  doubt. " This line is written by J. M. Coetzee in his Novel " Waiting For The Barbarians. "  On 8th and 9th January we had a expect lecture on this Novel. The lecture is arrange by our proff. and Head of department Dr. Dilip Barad. R. B. Zala sir has came form the surashtra university for talk. About the author :  J. M. Coetzee in full John Maxwell  Coetzee is South - African born novelist, easiest, linguist, and translator. Coetzee's first novel was  Dusklands  (1974) and he has continued to produce novels at the rate of about one every three years. Award won by coetzee :  Booker prize 1893 for Life & Times of Michael k.  Booker prize 1993 for Disgrace. Nobel prize 2003  Three-time winner of South Africa's CNA Prize. Summary of Waiting For The Barbarians: Waiting For The Barbarians is  allegorical Novel. The novel has so many symbolism from it very beginnin...

The white Tiger

The novel The white Tiger is written by Aravind Adiga. The novel published in 2008 and also won Ann Booker Price in same year. The story is of Balram Halwai's " rags to riches ". The story can also read as confession of Balram Halwai. We see that he also try to justify what he did. Here perspective is personal so we can say that this India is India from eyesight of Balram. The novel talks about the contract between India's rise rise as a modern global economy and lead character Balram who comes from crushing rural poverty. About this Adiga say, At a time when India is going through great changes and with China is likely to inherit the world from the West it is important that writer like me try to highlight the brutal injustice of ( Indian ) society. That's what I am trying to do. It is not an attack on country, it's about the grater process of self - examination.  As this blog is part of my thinking Activity I will answer the question asked by my profe...