(G) Why does Lomov think that his is a critical age?
(H) How can we improve our English?
(1) Write a short note on Indian English novel.
(1) Why has English become so popular in India?
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1-He was very critical age to get married. He said that Natalya was a excellent housekeeper, not bad looking, and also well educated. Lomov wanted a regular and settled life and also want someone permanently to take care him because he often suffer frm palpitations and many more diseases.
2- a. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Be confident. People can only correct your mistakes when they hear you make them.
b. Surround yourself in English. Put yourself in an all English speaking environment where you can learn passively. The best way to learn is through speaking.
c. Practise every day. Make yourself a study plan. Decide how much time a week you are going to spend studying and stick to it. Establish a routine.
Tell your family and friends about your study plan. Get them to push you to study and also don’t let them interrupt you.
d. Practise the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. They all need to be worked on for you to improve.
e. Keep a notebook of new words you learn. Use them in sentences and try to say them at least 3 times when you speak.
f. Do a lesson at least once a day.
Memorisation of lists is one of the most common ways of learning vocabulary for a test. It’s only a good exercise for short term studying because you often do not retain the information that you have learned for a test.
g. Use your body clock. If you’re not a morning person, study in the afternoon.
h. You will find words easier to remember if you try to remember an example sentence using that word rather the word on its own.
i. Plan to take a test. You’ll find that you work harder when you need to study for something.
Saying that, it’s better not to study just to take a test. Think of the bigger picture. What can you do when you have a good command of English? How will the quality of your life improve?
Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.
i. Give yourself short term goals too and reward yourself when you achieve each one.
j. Create an atmosphere in which you want to learn, not because you have to. You’ll learn more when you’re learning because you want to.
k. Know what works best for you. Think about what methods have been successful for you in the past and stick with them.
3- Indian English literature (IEL), also referred to as Indian Writing in English (IWE), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. Its early history began with the works of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt followed by Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo.[citation needed] R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao contributed to the growth and popularity of Indian English fiction in the 1930s.[1] It is also associated, in some cases, with the works of members of the Indian diaspora who subsequently compose works in English.
4. During the British Raj, lasting from 1858 to 1947, English language penetration increased throughout India. This was driven in part by the gradually increasing hiring of Indians in the civil services. At the time of India's independence in 1947, English was the only functional lingua franca in the country.