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Light poem - F.W. Bourdillon

This poem sings songs of heart and love. The message of the poem is that without love the world is no longer place to live. The poet uses day and night as metaphors. He says that night has thousands eyes means in night there are thousands of stars but it does not give light. But day has only one eye but it gives light. When sun sets the world of light ends. Same way mind has thousand eyes while heart has one where love lives. Like sun if love is gone then the whole life dies. So it is very short and simple poem.

The soldier - Roopet Brooke

The Soldier by poem by Rupert Brooke is a patriotic poem in which soldier from England who is fighting in foreign country, praises England. He says that if he will die in that foreign land, that part of the land will be forever England. Then he praises England. He says that England shaped him, England gave him flowers of love and it allowed him to roam. Even if they die they will go under English heaven.

ELT Videos summary

1] The well presented video with humor and drawing talks about Ken Robinson's idea of changing paradigm. Today purpose of education is cultural and economical. Parents wants their children to be rich and want to give them cultural identity. The education system of today is outdated because it was designed for different age. Parents want to make the future of children by what they did in the past. In this system people are separated into two groups - academic and non academic. academic are consider as smarter and non academic non smarter, which is a false idea. It is not the generation where one can get knowledge only in schools, today information can come from anywhere. Social media, internet, games etc. In the end Ken Robinson puts weight on divergent thinking and collaborative learning. Divergent thinking brings creativity. So, in this video Robinson presents problems of education system and then gives some ideas o how it should be. 2] Thoughts of Sugata Mitra is very d...

Activity - The little red riding hood

The Little Red Riding Hood   A little girl lives in a village - Calls her Little Red Riding Hood - Visits grandmother - Promises her mother not to talk with any strangers - Dark shadow approaches of a wolf - Conversation between wolf and Little Red Riding Hood - Wolf reaches grandma's home first - Eats her grandma - Little Red Riding Hood reaches grandma's home - Little Red Riding Hood recognizes the wolf in grandma's attire - Cries for help - The woodsman knocks the wolf and carries it deep down in the forest. From the above given outlines, write a story between 150 to 200 words.         (Deadline - Tonight 12AM)