Tutorial Seven
Learn English as Foreign Language-45 Tutorials
Improve English Speaking through everyday conversation
I have written a detailed book English conversation for all occasions, to learn English as Foreign Language.
This tutorial has been prepared from my well known book English conversation for all occasions, which I wrote for Indian students to improve everyday conversation..
English Conversation for All Occasions is a unique book of its kind, specially written to help Indian student. A quick look at the titles of the lessons would convince the reader that the book has been prepared by visualizing all types of situational conversations which may confront any man or woman in his daily activities. Whether one converses with his family members or moves about to mix in society, he will not feel tongue-tied for want of appropriate words or expressions. In a post office or barber’s shop, at a hotel or taxi stand, every person who has read this book, will be able to speak in English fluently and with confidence.
Good knowledge and satisfactory conversation drill is important in English speaking. This Tutorial would not only prove an asset to the reader in his daily life, but also on special occasions like interviews for jobs, etc. He would be able to face the interviewers with equanimity and confidence.
All the lessons have been designed in a programmed fashion. Word-meanings, Phrases and exercises have been added at the end of every lesson to help the students master the topics.
All the lesson should be read along, not once but many times, so that the conversation comes easy to the reader when he faces real life situations. The author would feel rewarded for his labours if the book helps men and women become social relations
This Tutorial should help all those readers who find difficulty in speaking fluent English. This will be completed in 45 lessons.
Tutorial SEVEN
THE GARDEN
Vikram is visiting his friend Ranjit Mehra. The two boys are playing in the Mehra’s garden.
Ranjit This is our little garden. We also have a small patch at the back of the house. But on that my mother grows a few vegetables.
Vikram How lucky you are to have a garden to have a garden to play in! We do not have any place in front of our house to make a garden. Through my mother keeps a few pots of Flowers And plants in the driveway.
Ranjit We use the front garden a lot particularly during the summer months, we sit out on the lawn nearly the whole evening. During winter, on holiday, we have our lunch sitting out in the sun.
Vikram Who looks after the garden?
Ranjit We have a Mali who comes for an hour everyday, to now the lawn, to trim the hedges, to water the plants and to gather the dry leaves scattered on the lawn.
Vikram Can the (gardener)Mali do all that work in just one hour?
Ranjit No, he doesn’t do everything on the same day. My mother, my father, my grandfather and I’ all help in looking after the garden.
Vikram Doesn’t your grandmother like the garden?
Ranjit Oh yes, she does. She has a little tulsiplant to which she prays every morning. But she is too weak to do any work in the garden.
Vikram Was your garden all laid out like this when you came to live in this house?
Ranjit No, the house had been unoccupied for a number of months before we moved in. The grass on the lawn had all dried up and the flower had died. It seemed no one had been watering them.
Vikram You must have put in a lot of work to make such a pleasing green lawn and to plant new colorful flowers which are blooming happily.
Ranjit My daddy looks after the lawn and my mother plants the flowers.
Vikram So your father must have watered the lawn a lot to make the grass grow green again.
Ranjit Daddy wasn’t happy with the quality of the grass already planted, for it was full of weeds. Just before the rainy season, he called in some laborers and they dug up the whole lawn and removed all the old grass.
Vikram Then, how did he plant the new grass? Did he put in grass seeds?
Ranjit No, he didn’t put down seeds to grow the grass. He brought tuffs of grass from the nursery and then planted them at short distances in lines.
Vikram It is wonderful how the new grass has taken root and spread itself out so evenly.
Ranjit My daddy spends an hour every day after he comes back from work, plucking out weeds. He also puts fertilizers sometimes and waters the grass every evening.
Vikram May I hold the water hose and water the lawn for you today?
Ranjit All right. And in the mean while I‘ll lightly dig up the flower beds.
Vikram Why? Are you taking out the flower growing in the beds?
Ranjit No. But my mother asked me to loosen the soil between the plants. If the earth is too hard the roots do not get enough air and water.
Vikram How beautiful the flowers look! So many colors too, Pink, red, yellow, blue, green, mauve and white. The dark green hedge at the back looks like a high wall.
Ranjit On Sundays, grandfather cleans the lawn and the flower beds. He piles up the dried leaves in a heap and then burns the dried leaves and the sticks.
Vikram That must be fun, like a big bonfire.
Ranjit It gives out a horrible blue smoke which stings our eyes. Grandmother gets very irritated and coughs a lot.
Vikram It is getting dark and I’ll go home now. I’ve learnt a lot about how your daddy makes up his lawn good by now.
(B) VOCABULARY
paths untidy `sunflowers
spade grow broader
rubbish bush fetch
Phrases
Bright butterflies sweet perfume
Hum of insects busy bees
Bird’s song heavy dew
Meanings
Mow to cut grass with a machine.
Trim to cut to make neat.
Blooming flowering.
Weeds wild grass.
Tuft bunch of grass.
(C) Study the following response
1 ) Are you fond of gardening?
Response I’ve always lived in a big city and we never had space for a garden. So, I cannot say whether or not I am fond of gardening. But I do enjoy to a park to breathe in fresh air and to feast my eyes on cool lawns.
2 ) How about a garden made up of potted plants? These could be kept in a balcony or on a terrace.
Response My wife is a great one for keeping the flat tidy. She objects to my carrying buckets of water across the living room to water the plants in the balcony. She is for ever following me with a duster mopping up the water that I drop.
3 ) Doesn’t your wife enjoy watching the little plants grow from seeds to beautiful flowering plants?
Response She is too busy to notice all these natural happenings. She doesn’t want to have anything which increases her housework.
(D) Make suitable responses
1) Describe how Mr.Mehra grew his lawn.
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2) What work does the Mali do?
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