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Functional English

Functional English focuses on developing communicative skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing through real-life situations. The aim is for learners to gain fluency in conversation and learn to use grammar communicatively to become effective communicators in English. Functional English teaches the practical usage of the English language needed for academic and career purposes.

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Functional English

Functional English focuses on developing communicative skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing through real-life situations. The aim is for learners to gain fluency in conversation and learn to use grammar communicatively to become effective communicators in English. Functional English teaches the practical usage of the English language needed for academic and career purposes.

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Functional English

• Functional English is usage of the English language required to perform a


specific function. This is typically taught as a foundation subject when a good
command of English is required for academic study and career progression.
• The aim of Functional English is to develop communicative skills of the learners
in listening, speaking, writing and reading. The main focus is on how English is
used in real-life situations. Through the items listed in the syllabus the learners
are expected to develop fluency in conversation and efficiency in interactional
skills. They are also expected to learn to use grammar communicatively so that
they become effective and efficient communicators in English.
What is
personification?
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhleJRpyb-Y
Definition
• The word “personification” actually contains the word “person,” and
to personify an object means to describe it as if it were a person. Instead of
saying that the sun is shining, we might say that the sun is smiling down at
us. Instead of describing a flag as moving in the wind, we could say that
the flag is dancing.
• As a literary device, personification is the projection of characteristics that
normally belong only to humans onto non-living objects, animals, holy being,
or forces of nature. These characteristics can include verbs of actions that only
humans do or adjectives that describe a human condition. The characteristics
can also be emotions, feelings, or motives given to objects incapable of
thought. For example, if someone said, “the trees whispered their discontent,”
this would personify the trees both as able to whisper and of feeling unhappy.
• The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the
ability to act like human beings. For example, when we say, “The sky weeps,”
we are giving the sky the ability to cry, which is a human quality. Thus, we can
say that the sky has been personified in the given sentence.  With the above
definition of personification, let us look at some personification examples.
Examples
• Common Examples of Personification:
• Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn’t she?
• The wind whispered through dry grass.
• The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
• Time and tide wait for none.
• The fire swallowed the entire forest.
Exercise 1

• First, make a list of 10 action verbs that Athings that humans do.
• Now, take a look around the room and write down 10 objects that you see.
• Look at your two lists and find funny or interesting ways to combine the
objects with the verbs. For example, you might come up with “pencil
laughing” or “sandwich whispers.” Use these word combinations to create
poetic sentences about each object. For example: “My ham sandwich
whispers loudly that it hates being wrapped in plastic.”
Activity 2
• Find out any poem, song, essay or story.
• Read a poem, song or any kind of text and identify the personification
used in that poetry or text.

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