"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Jayaram Speakwell attempts to quell basic doubts and mistakes that students and young people who are taught in the Tamil medium make. These mistakes cause them to feel shy about speaking in English. Books on spoken English are written as if they are just points of grammar. Hence, learners read and do the exercises. Then they forget them soon after the examinations. But this book deals with all the mistakes, not in a pedantic and pedagogic way, but in a practical and pragmatic way so that the students and the other learners identify them, learn how to avoid them .
As students go through this book, they will be able to identify their mistakes and rectify them themselves. All the points are examined and exemplified and explained exhaustively. By doing all the exercises the learners can grasp the right things and learn them by rote. Long exercises have been divided into smaller ones to avoid monotony. Teachers can make use of the small exercises (say, 4 A) and pass on to the other exercises depending on the pace of the learners. They can come back to do the remaining exercises (4B, 4 C) as a revision and make learners internalize the right use of the grammatical items.
Another interesting feature in this book is that the answers for the exercises are given immediately after them. Learners can have immediate reference to them and correct their mistakes. TEACHERS CAN EVEN ENCOURAGE LEARNERS TO REFER TO THE ANSWERS AND WRITE OR TELLTHE RIGHTANSWERS. Surprising, isn’t it? The underlining idea is that this book is just for oral practice, and learners are expected to have oral practice with correct sentences.
A. RAMAMOORTHY aka AR
A Ramamoorthy worked as a Post-graduate Assistant for 29 years in the Town Higher Secondary School, Kumbakonam. He also worked for ten years in various capacities in Matriculation Schools in the same town. He earned a lot of experience and learned a lot from the mistakes made by both English Medium and Tamil Medium students. This book is a result of such learning and experience.
One of his students got the State First Rank in English (2006) in 12th Standard, and consequently, he was given the Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Award. A Ramamoorthy has written another book called A Unique Approach to Simple Compound and Complex, besides writing English Guides for 6 to 12th Standard Students.
