2nd Year 2nd Semester

1. What is education? ( 10/5 hrs) 1. Western view of education.2. Eastern ideas of education.3. Aspects of education. 2. Education philosophers. ( [...]

Language and style of writing (15/08 hrs) Studying the language and the style of writing in different items in a newspaper: editorial, feature [...]

Business meetings (15/08 hrs) Discuss different types of meetings: informal/formal, large group/ a meeting of 4-5 of the people involved/one-to- one meeting  Types [...]

Handling learner errors (15/08hrs) Which errors to correct? Difference between errors and mistakes, global errors which cause misunderstanding) and local errors (relate only [...]

Writing skills: evaluate their own and other’s writing (10/05hrs) Self-evaluation and peer evaluation: design criteria for evaluation – Discuss in groups about what [...]

Poetry 01. A Solidier’s wife weeps – Kamala Wijerathna02. Monument – Kamala Wijerathna03. Musical – Kamala Wijerathna04. Kite – Dasa Disanayake05. Interview – Dasa Disanayake06. Lepidoptera – Richard De Soyza07. Gajagawannema – Richard De Soyza08. Fisherman mourned by [...]

Prepositions and prepositional phrases (15/08hrs)  Prepositions: A preposition expresses a relation between two entities.– Various types of relational meanings: e.g. place- at, in, [...]

1. Comprehending texts at different levels (05/03hrs) Reading tasks which help to comprehend a text at different levels. literal comprehension,making inferences, evaluating a [...]