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2012/10/14

தி English  and த  English
நான்  டீச்சர் ஆக இருந்தபோதே  இந்த discussion  வந்தது. ஏன்  The  U .S .A  and why  not the India .
Here  we  to consider  some grammatical  rules . the word THE is  pronounced  both  as  thi and as  tha .When the word that follows the article 'the ' starts with a,e,i,o,u sounds [take note , its the sound and not the letters ] then the should be pronounced as''  thi  ' 'and if it is followed by other words it should be pronounced as'' tha ''.
*The second rule is :if the thing referred to is 'unique ' ..only one ..then the article 'the ' is added before the word even if the word starts with other than a,e,i,o,u sounds. For example,  'the sun '  the moon''...
     I and my students  would get into an inter action and I would vehemently, passionately  and PATRIOTICALLY say that it should be THE India ,  because it is unique,special to us and the greatest.
Suddenly one student came with the question ''why do they advertise as 'The Chennai  Silks ?'',
   My reply was that ''they might (the chennai silks ) owners , knowingly or unknowingly might have tried to assure the customers that their shop is unique.
    Anyhow ,in the film English, Vinglish actor SriDevi asks why not the [tha ]India.As for as knowledge goes it should be 'thi ' India.
*If at all any student by mistake had written india [in small letters , lower case ] instead of capital 'I' i would give him a 0/100.And that student would realize his mistake.

*a,b,c....z  are letters of the alphabet  and it should not be said as 'alphabets' all the 26 letters constitute English alphabet.
only if the letters of different languages are referred to then we can say alphebets.
Grammar என்பது மிகவும்  இனிமையான பாடம். நடத்த  நடத்த நிறைய  விஷயங்கள்  சொல்லிக் கொண்டே போகலாம். எனக்கு மனப்பாடம் செய்வதே  பிடிக்காத  விஷயம். வருட முடிவில் என் மாணவர்களும்  என் வழிக்கு வந்து விடுவார்கள்.
இன்னும் பல அனுபவங்கள் அடுத்த பதிவில்.for  eg  debate
இதுவே  மாற்றான் பட அளவிற்கு நீளமாக இருக்கிறது ,தாங்கவில்லை ,போதும் ,bore  என்கிறிர்களா ,
விடுவதாயில்லை   நான்
அன்புடன்,
கார்த்திக்+அம்மா 

1 comment:

Jeevan said...

Teacher the lesson was superb. Teach us more :)