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ERADICATING FOL TOPPI AND FAN CAKE – By Capt Elmo Jayawardena CandleAid started a new project. We have an ’Out of the Box’ program to teach English to anyone who wants to learn. It is an 8 week course and another 8 weeks of advanced training. The total is 4 months. We have planned its contents and the first batch of 6 has finished and so has the 2nd batch of 6. The ones who went through the whole course and successfully leart to speak English were 5. 7 fell off on the wayside, maybe they learnt something. The 5 who passed speak and write better English than I ever expected. jwe are now on the look out to share this course with others. The course is given to any one and it is free. Every week the students do the following. 1/ Write an essay of minimum 100 words ...

Jun 26, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Capt Elmo Jayawardena Tagged Advanced training, English, speak English, teach English

All national cricketers need to learn English to speak fearlessly on Podiums – by Sunil Thenabadu (Sports editor – eLanka) Cricket was begun by the English remains a sport since the 17th century, where the language in use is of course was English. Countries like England, Australia, South Africa,West Indies,Zimbabwe( formerly Rhodesia) had no problem with the English language where everything connected to the game was in English .Lately with the advent of Asian countries viz India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh the players ,administrators had to be versed in English jargon which most did up to the end of the 1990 decade. All our past cricketers were able to converse well in the English which was the accepted language at international matches particularly for speaking at previews by the skippers, post- match presentations at press conferences when one is adjudicated as “the player of the match” had to answer to questions posed by the presenter at the podium. From the ...

Nov 11, 2021 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Charith Asalanka, English, ICC, national cricketers, speaking English, Sri Lanka Cricket, Sunil Thenabadu, T 20 WC, Test players, Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva

Who thinks this stuff up! – By Des Kelly English has always been a strange, but interesting language. In this particular instance, the prose is solely intended for readers to have a bit of fun, with. From time to time, quotes such as these have come into Facebook, quite a few, not fit to be published, because of the coarse “lingo”involved. As everyone knows, or should know, this writer has never been a “wowser”, swears with the best of them, and will write “HARD”, when I have to, but somehow, do not like to see epithets, four letter words etc., in print. eLanka readers especially, deserve better, and in this article, “Who thinks this stuff up”, they get it, much better than an article titled “Who thinks this is A stuff-up, I suppose. Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) eLanka. Who thinks this stuff up? • Venison for dinner again? ...

Aug 4, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged England, English, Facebook Comments 0