Introduction: Part of speech, vocabulary builder, major steps in acquiring commands in spoken English, American and British English.
Tenses: Present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous.
Future tenses: Will, shall, going to, present continuous / present simple with future meaning, future perfect, future perfect continuous, the future seen from the past.
Modals: Should and ought to, will, would, used to may, might, can, could, be able to, must, have (got) to needn’t, don’t have to, mustn’t, permission, offers etc.
Linking verbs: be, appear, seem; become get etc. have and have got; have and take; do and take.
Passive: Forming passive sentences using passives, reporting with passive verbs.
Questions: Forming questions. Asking and answering negative questions.
Verbs: Infinitives, -ing forms. Verbs with and without objects.
Reporting: Reporting people’s words and thoughts. Reporting statements, offers, suggestions, orders, intentions etc.
Determiners and quantifiers: some, any, something, somebody, much, many, a lot, all, the whole, both, each, every, no, none, little etc. Quantifiers with or without ‘of’.
Relative clauses: prepositions in relative clauses, particle clauses with adverbial meaning.
Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words: Reflective pronouns, leaving out verbs with auxiliary verbs, leaving out to-infinitives.
Adjectives: position, gradable and ungradable adjectives, adjectives and adverbs, participle adjectives, prepositions after adjectives, adjectives + that clause or to-infinitive, comparison with adjectives.
Adverbs and conjunctions: Position of adverbs, adverbs of place indefinite frequency and time. Degree of adverbs: comment adverbs, viewpoint adverbs, focus adverbs. Adverbial clauses of time, giving reasons, purposes and results, contrasts: although and though; even though, in spite of. Conditional sentences connecting ideas between and within the sentences.
Prepositions: complex examples with at, in, on, across, along, over, through, above, over, below, under, between, among, by, beside, during, for, in, over, throughout, by until, except (for), besides, apart from, but for, about, with etc. Preposition after verbs, word order. Phrasal Verbs : Three study units and ten lessons about Phrasal Verbs. Through this program you learn more than thousand phrasal verbs.
Idioms & Phrases: Four lessons on idioms and phrases. Over one thousand idioms and phrases spread across the program.
Vocabulary Builder : Four study units and sixteen lessons dedicated to build vocabulary. Throughout this program, you build about 10,000 words. |
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Origin and development of cricket: Meaning of the word “cricket”, Origin in Southern England, First attempt to codify the game, MCC’s role as the governing body, Methods of scoring and method of dismissals, transition to over-arm bowling, One-day internationals and Twenty-20.
Players, Matches, Stadiums: Prince of Wales of 1300 to the Twenty-20 heroes of the Twenty-first century. Cricket role models like Don Bradman, Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh. Controversial figures of Dr.W.G Grace, Dennis Lillee, Shane Warne, Muthia Muralitharan, Saurav Ganguly, Shoaib Akhtar etc. History of World Cups, Major matches. Major stadiums.
Cricket & Personality Development: The reasons behind cricket’s popularity. How cricket resembles life? The Gentlemen’s game. How cricket build character. Cricket and Mental strength. Cricket and Modern management. Use of Technology.
Coaches, Umpires: Coaches, bowling coaches, fielding coaches, famous umpires, umpiring blunders. Steve Bucknor, Darrell Hair, Brent Bowden, Mike Dennis, Aleem Dar, David Shepherd, S. Venkataraghavan etc
Techniques, Tactics & Cricket Laws: The game of cricket and its objectives. How to win a match? Opinions of successful cricketers. Decision to bat or field. Pitch, wicket & creases, bat & ball, Innings, overs, team-structure, scoring etc.
Facts, figures & fun: More than 8000 exciting facts and trivia.
Success stories and cricket blunders: “Taking Tendulkar’s wicket on debut” to “dropping the World Cup”. Success stories of Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Garry Sobers, Len Hutton, Mahendra Dhoni, Mark taylor, Don Bradman etc.
Historic Moments: The first touring cricket teams of England to the Historic match at Johannesburg on 12, March 2006 where South Africa beat Australia by scoring 434 in a one-day international. Various record-breaking feats of wickets, sixers, catches and run-outs.
Politics, Scandals: Un-gentlemanly behaviors in gentleman’s game. Match fixing to drinking binges. Group fights to sex scandals.
Cricket Journalism, Emotions: Writing wrongs, Speaking truth, Commentators, the joy of winning, the role of revenge. India-Pakistan matches. Sledging: The art of sledging, famous sledging stories of W.G Grace, Hansie Cronje, Viv Richards, Matthew Hayden, Arjuna Ranatunga, David boon, Graeme Smith, Imran Khan etc.
Time management: Your self image. Personal and organizational goals. The goal setting process.
Controlling priorities to increase productivity: Setting priorities. Dealing with interruptions. Coping with emergencies. Managing communication.
Use of effective communication to improve productivity: Time for communicating, empathy in communication, Communicating with groups.
Team management: The empowerment imperative. The benefits of empowerment. Attributes of a leader. Communication and delegation.
Increasing the productivity of the Team: Sharing and communicating goals. Creating a learning environment. Developing and coaching self directed work teams.
Team commitment: Preparation of effective job description. Training area identification and training plan.
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