Active and Passive
Voice refers to the form of a verb that indicates when a subject performs the action or is the receiver of the action. Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb. Passive...
Understanding Graphics and Visual Aids
Understanding graphics and visual aids is essential to reading comprehension, especially in academic and professional texts. Graphics and visual aids, such as charts, graphs, diagrams, maps, and photo...
ELT in India
English language teaching (ELT) in India has a long and complex history, deeply intertwined with the country's colonial past and its current aspirations as a global economic power. Today, English is w...
Guidelines to Paragraph Writing
Developing an effective paragraph -a combination of cohesive sentences to further a focused topic -requires seven steps. Emily Layfield outlines these easy steps to help one write an impeccable piec...
Teaching Prose
Teaching prose is mainly meant to develop the four language skills -Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. The activities planned by the teacher must allow for the development of these four skill...
Barriers to Listening
Listening effectively is crucial in all aspects of life, fostering communication, understanding, and connection. However, numerous barriers can impede our ability to hear and absorb what others are sa...
Listening vs. Hearing
Listening is a valuable skill and assumes official importance in one's personal, academic and professional setting. With the increased use of computers, mobile phones and the internet, the importance ...
Precis Writing
Precis writing is a summarisation process in which a long text is condensed into a shorter version without losing its main ideas or concepts. The goal is to convey the gist or key message of the origi...
Conjunction
A conjunction is a part of speech that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. They can be one word or a few words. They glue words, phrases and clauses together and are made to conv...
British and American Expressions
There is an old saying that America and Britain are “two nations divided by a common language.” While they are essentially the same, British and American English also differ a great deal, with some ...