Learning English: Short Language Related Talks

A weekly youtube series of short language related talks

Part 1: Language and Power
Part 2: Bringing English close to you
Part 3: Feeling Inferior
Part 4: The question of pronunciation
Part 5: Being aware of the power politics of language
Part 6: Making a strange language familiar
Part 7: Giving students self confidence as a first step towards learning English
Part 8: The question of a ‘standard’ English
Part 9: Grammar Lesson 1 – Making Requests/The Imperative
Part 10: Grammar Lesson 2 – Describing something/The present simple tense of the ‘be’ verb
Part 11: Grammar Lesson 3 – Literal and Figurative Language
Part 12: Grammar Lesson 4 – Types of Sentences
Part 13: Grammar Lesson 5 – Parts of Speech
Part 14: Grammar Lesson 6 – The verb ‘have’
Part 15: Grammar Lesson 7 – Subject, Verb, Object
Part 16: Teacher’s Guide for Grammar Lessons 1 to 7. Why this methodology?
Part 17: Grammar Lesson 8 – The Present Simple Tense, Frequency Adverbials
Part 18: Grammar Lesson 9 – The Present Simple Tense (Part 2): Music – Amy Lowell
Part 19: Grammar Lesson 10 – Future Simple Tense
Part 20: Grammar Lesson 11 – Future Simple Tense (Part 2)
Part 21: Grammar Lesson 12 – Modal Verbs
Part 22: Grammar Lesson 13 – Modal Verbs (Part 2)
Part 23: Grammar Lesson 14 – Past Simple Tense
Part 24: Grammar Lesson 15 – Pronouns
Part 25: Grammar Lesson 16 – Adjectives and Adverbs
Part 26: Can/Should a language be taught without ideology (a short talk in Sinhala & English)

by
Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake
Senior Lecturer/Former Head

Department of English Language Teaching
University of Sri Jayewardenepura