Innovative Ideas for Teaching English

1)       I'm having two sisters I have two sisters   2)       They had gone there yesterday. They went there yesterday.   3)       I didn't knew it. I didn't know it.   4)       I like listening music. I like listening to music.   5)       I'm telling to you. I'm telling you.   6)       All the peoples were quite excited All the people were quite excited   7)       I cannot discuss you that. I cannot discuss that with you.   8)       One of my friend is coming tomorrow. One of my friends is coming tomorrow.   9)       He gave me all the informations. He gave me all the information.   10)   This scissor is not working These scissors are not working   11)   Can you tell me what time is it? Can you tell me what time it is?   12)   Myself Krishna from Saharanpur. My name is   Krishna from Saharanpur or   I am Krishna…   13)   I told him 'ki' I was busy. I told him that I was busy.   14)   "She doesn't...

I am teaching my English literature class of undergraduates, fresh from rural schools, in the middle of a north Indian desert summer. Through the grimy windows we can see the dust devils spinning in the far distance. During this season, the landscape appears in tones of grey and brown, sometimes obscured entirely by a dust storm that blots out everything in a swirling haze. We are thirsty all the time.  As one launches into Shakespeare's sonnet, 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day', my somnolent class looks mildly interested, their expressions soon changing to disbelief. I can see them thinking, 'These crazy angrez. Who is this Sexpeare, comparing his lover to summer?' But summer is not just weeks of helpless suffering for those who have to live through them. The beautiful mogra, the essence of summer, blooms lavishly, spreading its heady, intoxicating fragrance far into the sultry night. Entwined in the hair of the beloved in the initial, exhilarating...