Vijaya lakshmi Vara

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Iam V. Vijayalakshmi. Iam an English teacher in Government High school. Iam from India. Iam doing these courses to enhance my proficiency in English. I think this is a good platform to i me.

Location Iam Living in Visakhapatnam in Andhrapradesh state. It's a awsome

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  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Choosing the correct structure for your essay question

    Thank you for given tips SPSE method.

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    Example questions that would generate ideas for the essay

    Thank you for, thought provoking questions.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Generating ideas for the essay

    What is the reason behind this concept?
    Why did world Bank take this decision?

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Common features of academic writing

    Academic essay is different to other type of writings.
    In academic essay we can follow logical thinking, more formal language, cautious at grammar.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Academic essay

    Very useful topic. First time I have known how to write academic essay writing. Thank you for sharing this video.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Newspaper article

    Very helpful topic.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    What is academic writing?

    These two essays are good and informative.. In our country food wastage is common in marriage functions people were prepared number of items in large scale it consumed very little so leftover food distribute to poor people and sometimes it put into the dustbins. This one was going on before covid. Now the people are change their attitude and reducing items...

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    In academic writing, the writer should ...?

    I choose write with correct grammar.
    Spoken inglish grammatical awareness is not necessary, whereas in written English is grammatical awareness is necessary to understand the content.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara replied to Sally-Jane Papworth
    How can behaviour keep depression going?

    Yes it's true zeynep mam

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The role of behaviour in the CBT model of depression

    I appreciate my students when they doing different activities.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara replied to Doreen H
    The role of behaviour in the CBT model of depression

    This is good, Doreen.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Welcome to Week 3

    This course is very informative and interesting.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The causes of depression

    Great topic. Thank you.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    What is depression?

    Thank you for sharing helpful topic.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Young person's view: Depression

    Thanks for sharing the inforvative video.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Is this course for me?

    Iam vijayalakshmi from Andhrapradesh, I am working as a teacher in government high school. I hope this course will help to understand adolescence behaviour.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Different pronunciations of vowel length analysed

    Good videos.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The feature of vowel length explained

    It's an important topic I have known it clearly now through this video, thank you mentors.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    English vowels: intelligibility, credibility and identity

    Thanks for sharing the helpful topic.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara replied to María Cecilia Romero
    Ask your education questions online

    I support your thought. Good idea, thank you Maria.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara replied to Vijaya lakshmi Vara
    Ask your education questions online

    Thanks for your suggestion mam, I will try.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Brainstorming about vowels and intelligibility

    Good video.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Introduction to week 2: vowels

    Thank you for sharing helpful content.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    English vowels: intelligibility, credibility and identity

    Thank you

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Reflection

    I would like to focus on pronunciation and british accent

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Ask your education questions online

    I am from India my accent is different. How can I improve my accent as native English speakers. Is it possible.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    A fun exercise for practising (non)rhoticity

    Very nice. Thank you for sharing this video

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Words in a rhotic accent and in a non-rhotic accent

    Actually in our country we are using rhotic and non rhotic words usually so these are familiar to us. Both words are easy to learn.Rotic words and pronunciation is easy, where as Non rhotic words pronunciation is difficult to grasp.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The reading passage in a non-rhotic and in a rhotic accent

    I like both rhotic and non rhotic accents. Mostly we can follow the non rhotic accent, because we have influenced by british English

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The word list in a non-rhotic and in a rhotic accent

    I would like to hear Non-Rhotic, because we can follow British accent.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara replied to Vijaya lakshmi Vara
    Sharing our English accents

    Ok. Thanks for your suggestion

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The notion of rhoticity explained

    Thank you for useful topic

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Setting personal goals regarding English pronunciation

    I would like to learn pronunciation with British accent.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    What English pronunciation features are difficult for you?

    Done.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Sharing our experiences speaking English

    Done.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Sharing our English accents

    How can i share my audio. I recorded through speak pippe. But I don't know how to send.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    English pronunciation features: intelligibility, credibility and identity

    I think accent depend on the region /country itself.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Introduction to week 1

    Thanks for your tips.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Brainstorming about English pronunciation in a global world

    It's good and this video tells the importance of English as foreign language.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Responding to feedback on your first draft

    I didn't receive feed back ,yet.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Responding to feedback

    Thank you for your guidance

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    What was your biggest challenge in writing the first draft of your essay?

    My biggest challenge in writing is organising ideas.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Welcome to Week 5

    Thanks.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Chaohua's first draft

    The essay way of writing is good.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Deciding which ideas and evidence to use

    Thanks for sharing the great idea.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Collecting all the ideas you have

    Title: Analyse the adverse effects of mobile phones on children.
    Now a days children are using mobile phones aboundantly.

    Due to pandemic children are depend on online education.
    Children using mobile phones vividly not only education purpose but also watching different programmes.
    Children are playing dangerous games like pubji ,Rummy etc on...

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    How to analyse the title

    Analyse the adverse effects of mobile phones on children?
    Hidden question
    What are the adverse effects of mobile phones on children?

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara replied to Brian Turner
    How to analyse the title

    Thank u for sharing the link sir.It's very helpful and informative.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The stages of writing an essay

    Thanks for great tips.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara replied to Ismi Hafsari
    The stages of writing an essay

    Me too sir.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Welcome to Week 4

    Thank you for your guidance.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Examining improvements in Xiao's second essay

    I have noticed through Anne's review of second attempt of xiao,that we can follow the content, organisation and Language method to get good knowledge in essay writing.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Xiao's second attempt

    Content:In his second attempt his ideas are well developed and detailed.c
    Organisation: in terms of his organisation his paragraphing is lengthy and clear. His ideas are well connected.
    Language:in terms of language we can understand easily. He followed subject-verb agreement, he used punctuation marks perfectly. He was overcome his spelling problems....

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The strengths and weaknesses of Xiao's first attempt

    I would like to share my ideas about the strengths and weaknesses of Xiao's first attempt in three aspects.
    Cotent, organisation and language.
    Cotent: xiao got some good ideas.It'svery clear. But his ideas aren't well developed.
    Organisation:In terms of his organisation his paragraphing is quite basic and his paragraph is short.His ideas aren't well...

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    What ideas has Xiao included in his essay?

    Xiao compared her country's status before the second world war and after world war clearly.
    In the past
    War -life was hard.
    China was a closed country.
    People worked on the land.
    Now a days
    No war
    China is open to the world
    More people live and work in china.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Read and comment on Xiao's first attempt

    Xiao described his country 'status before second world war and after war. Her expressions were clear. But her way of writing was simple . It's a good attempt.I wish she gradually improve her way of writing.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Starting with ideas

    Iam from India.
    Now a days Technology developed rapidly.
    Everything depend on internet.
    Full of pollution.
    There is no ethics.
    In the past
    Pollution free atmosphere.
    There is no internet.
    Communication going on with lettters and telegrams.
    Given preference to ethics.
    Corruption free.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    What do you think academic writing is?

    As an English Teacher I can speak and write in simple way , because my school children belong to village background.so I want to improve my writing skills.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    How to get the most out of this course

    Thanks for your guidance.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Welcome to Week 1

    Hello! everyone I am Vijayalakshmi,Iam an Indian,cI live in Andhrapradesh.my first language is Telugu. I joined this course to improve my writing skills in English.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    What is your main reason for taking this course?

    I would like to improve my writing skills in English systematically. Thank u for giving this opportunity through this course.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The word list and the reading passage for the second recording

    Thanks.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Assessing your English pronunciation (American)

    I can only hear. I couldn't record it.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Assessing your English pronunciation (British)

    It's amazing I really enjoyed it. I recorded the pronunuciation words. Thank you.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The phenomenon of linking discussed

    We never linking the words like given in the first video. So I need more practice. Thank you for sharing the great information.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Analyzing and practising intonation

    In our language we can use rising and falling intonation.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Stress analysed in commonly mispronounced words in English

    Quiz questions are very difficult to me.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: contrastive stress 5

    Helpful video. It's a difficult topic. Thank you for sharing these videos

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: contrastive stress 4

    COOKING' contrastive stress.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: contrastive stress 3

    Great.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: contrastive stress 2

    Great explanation and pronunuciation.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: contrastive stress 1

    Clear contrastive stress

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Stress-timed versus syllable-timed stress

    Syllable timed

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Stress

    Good explanation

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Live session

    I missed it.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Suprasegmental features in English: intelligibility, credibility and identity

    I think intonation is depend on high and low pitch of voice sound.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Introduction to week 4: suprasegmental features

    Good explanation

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Reflection

    BBC pronunciation video and excercises are helpful to practice. I have known different consonant sounds this week. It's very helpful to enhance my English pronunciation. Thank you team leaders.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Application to the word list

    Interesting.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Interacting with your educator and mentors

    I missed it.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: 50 items with /ʃ/ and /tʃ/

    Helpful video and thank you for sharing

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    A quiz on /w/, /v/, /b/ and /f/

    Good exercise thank you

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    A different pronunciation of /w/ analysed

    I have known way of pronunciation of difference between /w/&/V/ through BBC pronunciation tips thank you

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    A listening exercise: /r/ or /l/?

    Good exercise. Thank you

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Different pronunciations of 'r' analysed

    BBC pronunciation tips are very helpful. I have learnt more. Thank you

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: minimal pairs with /s/ and /z/

    Helpful video.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    A different pronunciation of /s/ analysed

    I pronounce/s/ correctly.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listening exercise: /g/, /ʒ/ or /dʒ/?

    I got all correct. Good exercise. It's helpful to enhance our English pronunciation. Thank you.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: words and phrases with 'th'

    Useful and good video.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Different pronunciations of 'th' analysed

    I pronounce /th/strongly.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: words with 1-4 final consonants

    Helpful video. I want to practice pronunuciation this way thank you for sharing video.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    The deletion of words endings analysed

    Sometimes I leave out word endings.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Listen and repeat: 55 words with 'ch'

    Useful video. I need to be practice more.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Which letter is not pronounced?

    Helpful exercise

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Why are letters sometimes silent in English?

    Useful and good topic

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    A different pronunciation of clear l analysed

    New topic

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Clear and dark l

    I have learnt new topic. This is very helpful video. Thank you for sharing this

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Minimal pairs with and without aspiration

    Helpful video

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Aspiration

    Nice news article.

  • Vijaya lakshmi Vara made a comment
    Minimal pairs with consonant clusters

    Interesting topic.