English Model Activities For O/ L And Other: 2019 paper

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MODEL ENGLISH ACTIVITIES FOR O L

Model Questions For O L
The activities published here are based on the O/L new syllabus.

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Dear students and teachers,

The activities you find on this blog page are free and they have been created for Grade 11 and 10 students. You can use the blog page as a self-study guide. The answers for the activities are published separate ( jjsaje.blogspot.com: THE KEY TO MODEL QUESTIONS). You also can share the page as a gift pack with your kith and kins of school going age.

For further activities you can purchase the two model activity books I have advertised below. The two books contain 200 activities ( 100 in each) with answers. The activities have been tested with students for avoiding any ambiguity. You can get down the books to your home or school by simply leaving me a note on whatsApp or ringing me to the mobile number I have mentioned below.

jjsaje.blogspot.com contains activities for Grade 6 , 7 , 8 and 9. It is also a source for you for Model Essays, Graph description and Grammar lessons. Search the site and you will find activities in abundance.

I welcome your comments as they always encourage me to dedicate more time for you.

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Best Cloze Passages for OL

About Cloze Passages:

The cloze passage is the 11th question on the OL English language paper. The question carries 7 marks (14 blanks; 1/2 mark for each).

Well, most students always grumble that the question consumes time and it is challenging. This means you lack practice in answering cloze passages. I also find that most English language teachers also are reluctant to expose children to cloze passages.

Attempting a cloze passage involves intense brain work. It requires a knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and related techniques. More than anything else , 'patience'. Really, a cloze passage put your 'patience' on test.

My students, you can practice cloze passages at home. You can do it for yourself. First, take it as a game.

Well, you can do it the way I mention below. Try it and comment if it works.

Step 01: Select a suitable passage depending on your language proficiency. Make sure that the passage is an appealing one to you. I recommend a short story at first. Write it on a paper or just photocopy it.

Step 02: Read the passage several times until you get some idea of the theme. You may use a dictionary if you find any new words.

Step 03: Leave the first one or two sentences and mark words after every four , five or six words. Then remove the words and write them down on a separate paper.

Step 04: Now jumble the words you have removed as you please.

Step 05: Now you have a cloze passage with you. Try to insert the words. Check your answers yourself with the list of words you took down in order at first.

Note: while attempting to insert the words try to associate the words with the words immediately around the blank.

e.g. If there is a blank with the article 'an' , your answer MUST be a word beginning with a VOWEL.

As you practice you will catch up your own techniques.

Well, you can inform me later.

Bye.

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Best Poems for Comprehension| OL and Other

"A thing of beauty is joy forever"

The poems published here could be used for your language teaching and learning process. They have been carefully selected to suit the young reader. The teacher can turn these short poems on to a platform where the young learner is motivated towards poetry.

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Dear teachers,

Do not merely get your students to answer these simple poems and switch on to another. First build up a fine bridge between your students and the poem. Your students will walk over slowly into the poetic world. Let them have that fun with you.

Then let your students attempt the questions and finally make sure that you lead a healthy discussion. The poems I publish here create a background for you to guide them deeper into the poems.

Today, most of our teachers have become quite mechanical and do not let the students to peep into the literary world.

I was made to leave this remark here because I chanced to listen to some young lady teacher explaining a poem in her language class. She did not treat the poem the way she should have done it and roughly touched upon the surface of the poem for the sake of doing it.

Do justice to the poems and the poets by discussing them with your students. Listen to what your students speak of them. Let your students truly enjoy a poem. Do not steal that right from them. Be well prepared before discussing a poem with your students.

I humbly regret if I have hurt you my readers.

Blogger Sajendra Kumara.

BEST READING PASSAGES FOR OL

The blogger's note:

Reading comprehension is an important part of language learning. Most students dwell on the misconception that they need to understand each and every word in a text to understand the underlying meaning. That is partly why most of the learners are reluctant to read lengthy passages. Most of them , I practically know , evade reading passages.

Some teachers have the habit of explaining each and every word in a reading passage and then get the student to answer the questions. Here , really , the teacher plays the role of the grandfather telling a story to his grandchildren. The students are made passive listeners. They never make their own attempt.

Such methods should never be used in handling a reading passage. Here , with or without knowledge, the teacher hinders the student's reading attempt; there by making reading a horrible experience in the student. The student loses his confidence in reading.

Reading sentences by breaking sentences into meaningful chunks is one good method a student can be trained for reading.

The teacher has a big role to play here. The teacher needs to expose the student more towards reading texts. Also, a student should never be directed ambiguous questions. An initial confidence should be built that he / she can understand a given text. The questions should be framed in such a way that the learner easily traces the answers. Later, the teacher can move from simple to complex.

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A trained teacher of English

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Activity 1 : Read the following passage and do the activity.

The Bermuda Triangle covers a large area of the Western Atlantic Ocean. The three points of the triangle are Bermuda, Florida and a point in the sea about 200 miles off the Northern tip of Brazil. It is an area of unexplained mystery.

More than 100 planes and ships have vanished completely here, most of them since 1945, and more than 1000 have been lost here in past 26 years. Not a single body or piece of wreckage from the vanished planes or ships has been found. Many of the planes which have disappeared had normal radio contact with their airfields until the very moment they vanished. Other pilots have radioed the most extraordinary messages. Their compasses were swinging about. The sky had turned yellow and cloudy when everywhere else in the region was very clear, the surface of the ocean was strangely coloured and moving widely.

1. If the following statements are True write T or if they are False write F.

a) Only planes have disappeared here. (....)

b) The ocean suddenly turned yellow. (....)

c) The Bermuda Triangle is in Florida. (....)

2. How many people have been lost in the area mentioned in the passage? ...............

3. Did the pilots have radio contacts until the last moment they disappeared? ........

4. Write two changes in the environment that occurred in the area.

A) .................... B) .....................

5. What are the following words reffered to?

a) "it" in paragraph one. ................

b) "their " in paragraph two. ..........

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GRADE 10 ENGLISH PAST PAPERS AND WORKSHEETS

The page contains past papers and worksheets for Grade 10.

The activities and papers which this page carries are free. However, it will take a few hours for Granting you access for downloading. Always keep in touch.

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Panchathanthra Stories For Children| Fables

Panchathanthra is a collection of Sanskrit fables written by the Indian scholar , teacher and writer Vishnu Sharma.

The stories published below have been selected and adapted to suit the young reader.

You can watch the Videos on SK Videos channel .

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Story 1

The Educated Fools

👴 Moral: [Pride goes before a fall: If you are too confident about your abilities something bad could happen. It shows that you are not as good as you think. ]

Once upon a time there lived four Brahmin friends. Three among them were well educated in Vedic scriptures and other fields. However, they lacked intelligence. The fourth friend was uneducated but he excelled in intelligence.

One day, the four friends were engaged in a serious conversation with regard to their future. They said they couldn't make proper use of their educatedness by staying in their home country. So, they decided to serve some other king in the East and make their future better.

Thus, as discussed, the four friends left home early in the morning the very next day. They walked in the direction of the east.

On the way, the first Brahmin friend stopped and expressed his concern over the fourth Brahmin friend who was uneducated.

The second Brahmin friend added, " Yes, we cannot share our hard earned wealth with someone who is uneducated."

The third Brahmin who felt sympathetic for their good old friend said, "We've been friends since our childhood. We've always been together. Therefore, it's my opinion that a part of our wealth should go to him as well."

The four friends resumed the journey. On the way, they had to walk through a dense jungle infested with most ferocious wild animals. The four friends being tired after walking a long distance, decided to rest a while under a huge shady tree.

The friends who observed the surrounding noted some skeletal remains. Upon closer examination, they realized that they were those of a lion died a few years ago.

The educated friends thought that it was an opportunity to show how educated they were by putting together the bones and bringing the dead beast back to life.

Thus they set about working. The first Brahmin friend fixed the bones. The second Brahmin friend fed the skeleton with flesh and blood. Finally, when the third Brahmin friend got ready to blow life into the lion the fourth friend, the uneducated one , who was watching all this drama with horror and surprise , intervened and said , " Stop! Stop! What do you think you are going to do? You are going to bring a ferocious beast back to life. The moment it is alive, it'll definitely kill the four of us. If you love your life, don't do this."

The third friend who was furious to hear this said , "Go away uneducated fool and let me show everyone the power of my knowledge."

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The fourth friend said, "Well, then , wait just one minute until I climb up this tree. "

The fourth friend climbed up the tree in a flash. The third friend blew life into the dead lion. The lion sprang up with a loud roar, killed the three friends and disappeared into the jungle."

The fourth friend watched all this in agony. He was shocked to see the three good friends lying dead under the tree torn into pieces. He walked back home mourning the death of his three friends.

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English Through Newspapers

Dear readers,

This blog, like the 30 plus other blogs , I have published on this site jjsaje.blogspot.com will be of immense use to both learners of English and English language teachers. It will also be an eye-opener for some of you.

Short English news articles are one of the best sources available freely for one to either learn or teach English. If you are a teacher you have to be a bit innovative and creative to design your lesson with the news article. They improve one's day-today vocabulary and keep one abreast of the developments of the world.

My small attempt here will guide you how to use news articles in the classroom or personally to improve your knowledge.

I also have compiled a booklet (Learn English Through Newspapers: Book-1) carrying different news items from Sri Lankan newspapers with interesting activities. The book has been designed in such a way that a teacher can use it as a supplementary activity book for students. It also can effectively be used with AL General English Learners.

You can reserve your copy by contacting me on 0777597875.

I am looking forward to your feedback.

Good Luck

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(A trained Teacher of English / Blogger / Material Writer )

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Paper Cutting -1 ( Sports News - Local )

Underline the correct answer

1) Kusal's a) son b) daughter was born on the June 19th.

2) a) Father's Day b) Mother's Day falls on the June 19th.

3) Kusal Mendis received the best news of his life on the

a) 20th June b) 19th June.

4) Kusal saw his baby a) on the day it was born b) a day after the it was born.

5) Underline the correct statement.

a) Kusal retired from cricket.

b) Kusal was injured in the third ODI with Australia.

c) Kusal will not be able to play cricket again.

6) According to the article the word 'duo' in the last paragraph referred to

a) Kusal and Nishell

b) Nishell and her baby daughter

c) Kusal and Pethum Nissanka

Paper Cutting -2 ( Local News)

Read the above article and answer the questions.

What does CAA stand for?
Where was the fuel stock hidden?
What is the total amount of the hidden stock?
What was done to the fuel stock?
Who will be charged in the case?

Paper Cutting :3 ( Local News)

Read the news item given above and do the activity.

1. The number of artificial limbs offered: ......

2. The artificial limbs were offered to: ......

3. The value of an artificial limb: ......

4. The total number of recipients of limbs this year (2022): ...

5. The number of soldiers lost their lives in the war.: .......

6. The number of soldiers injured or lost their limbs: ....

Paper Cutting 4: (Local News- Health)

Read the above news item and complete the sentences.

1. Laggala is situated in the ..............................................

2. Laggala and Wilgamuwa records the highest number of .............................

3. Over ................................. have been found from Laggala and Wilgamuwa areas.

4. Some people are addicted to smoking .......................... instead of cigarettes.

5. .................................is a cause of the wide spreading kidney disease.

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Paper Cutting 6: Business News (Economy)

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Writer
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The writer works at a government school in Nittambuwa.

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