Postgraduate Diploma in Education Unit

 

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Postgraduate Diploma in Education Unit

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Basic English

Lecture-3                                                    Date: 0612.2021

 

Activity-1

Reading Comprehension

Read the following text and answer the questions given below.

A family of five children at Moragoda in Anuradhapura are in a serious predicament for want of a house or even a small block of land to build one. The children’s mother Mala says that her husband is an invalid suffering from a cancer in the intestines and undergoing treatment. She further says that her landlord is compelling them to vacate the house immediately and threatening legal action to eject them for arrears of rent. If that happens, her family with five children will be left without a fixed abode. Three of the children are without clothes and school requisites for the New Year. Meanwhile, Mala has to take her husband to clinics and to visit him when he is admitted to hospital. She says that she often feels sick due to fatigue, but the economic constrains do not permit her to consult a doctor. She laments that the pressing problem of her family is housing. Hence, she requests the public for assistance to save her family from the difficulty they are facing.

1.           What is the most difficult situation the family has faced?

2.           Why is Mala’s landlord forcing them to leave immediately?

3.     Why is her husband undergoing medical treatment?

4.     The word, ‘fatigue’ in line 9 means:

a.     drowsy

b.     weariness

c.   lethargic

5.   Write the sentence that Mala is asking for help from others.

Activity-2

Be verbs: Tag Questions

Do/Does/Did

·        Watch the videos and learn the lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZytMU2BzUg

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ATF41zp9Qw

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dke7T8cjXJk

·        Exercises: https://www.englishgrammar.org/worksheet-6/

·        Lesson: https://www.grammar.cl/english/do-does-did-done.htm

·        Exercises: https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-49467.php

·        Lesson: https://www.teflcourse.net/english-grammar-corner/do-does-did-done/

·        Activity-3: Writing/Speaking

·        Speak and write about your school. Send a written and voice message.

·        Activity-4: Listening

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy4-WmjKtTM

·        Acivity-5: Homework

·        Watch all the videos and learn the lessons

·        Do the activities and send the marks.

·        Learn all the words and expand your vocabulary.

·        Write the given essays and send voice messages on them.

·        Do the listening tests and send the marks.

·        You are given marks for all the above activities.