ENGLISH MANTRA

Spoken English or English communication has become an integral part of any curriculum in school and college levels. "English Mantra” is a very rare book in this regard specially designed for the teachers and the students to develop their English language fluency through different activities. These activities can be conducted in classrooms with ESL students for improving their English Speaking skills in different situations. Some of these activities will also develop confidence of the learners to face the audience and speak in a group and remove their stage fright. These speaking activities include On the Spot, Short Prepared Speech, Interactive Stories, Micro Presentation, Role Play, Story- Building and Retelling, Debating, Crossfire, Dumb Charade, Press Conference, Public Speaking, Extempore, Instant Translation, Teaching for Better Fluency, Forum, Descriptions, Telephonic Conversation, Body Language, Group Discussion, Case Study, Personal Interview, SWOT Analysis, Situation Reaction Test, Brainstorming, Mock Seminar, Picture Reading, etc. The outstanding feature of this book is that it contains specially designed curricula for different levels of students and guidelines for teachers to adopt those curricula. Now-a-days the teachers are not getting proper curriculum or syllabus for teaching Spoken (Communicative) English in schools and colleges. They are also longing for different types of ELT activities for their students. This book will be very helpful for them. The book contains three types of curricula for primary, secondary and senior secondary (advanced) students. Many students of all these levels of study face the problem of good communication in English. The book will serve as a good guide to those students. This impressive manual will also enable the readers to improve their English pronunciation and acquire the correct patterns of accent, rhythm, and intonation. A very long chapter of the book is dedicated for this purpose. It contains all the forty-four English sounds including short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds, diphthongs, consonant and other sounds. The mechanism for properly producing those sounds is also given with suitable examples. The rules to get the number of syllables in a word, stress pattern of those words, etc. are also provided with much lucidity. One part of the book contains special chapters on job grooming. Chapters like Group Discussion, Personal Interview, SWOT Analysis, Situation Reaction Test, and Writing Resumes will be very convenient for the students preparing for jobs and higher studies. Grammar is a necessary part of any language. Of course, one need not complete a whole grammar course for speaking English better. Therefore, the book contains simple grammar items like tense, sentence patterns, uses of tense, etc. It also contains many grammar-based conversations which will be very much essential for the students of all ages. With the advent of globalisation, there has been an enormous increase in the number and size of professional organisations and English communication plays a vital role in the smooth functioning of those organisations. A realisation of this need by the authorities of some educational institutions has led to the introduction of special courses on oral communications (Spoken English) in their institutions to make the students face the globalised world with more confidence and better communicative skills. The main aim of this book is to provide assistance to the students of those institutions for attaining their goal to communicate better.