Table Manners - easy english TABLE TALK

 

I want to GIVE here , a short account of my friend’s ‘Table Manners’ .

           He was an middle class person. He wanted his children to get rid of fear of English which he saw all around him. So the program started when they were very young ( five! perhaps) soon after they knew names of things around them in their own language.

           Every night family eats together, My friend asks what is there today. The home maker replies both in their language and English. During meal time children have to ask : Rice please – then they get rice – Brinjal(Egg plant) sambar please- potato BHAJI please-

My friend will scatter a few more words.

           ‘This is very tasty today’,

                     ‘This needs more salt’,

                                ‘This is too salty’.

This is what I have seen. As they, the children, got older he might have added even local incidents or Newspaper headings. All these activates at the same time as food or sweets or Ice cream is being consumed, Then it would not be like teaching. Also not any one is targeted no learning burden.

          

           Today after 50 years, I see them able to read, write argue , crack jokes , request, rebuke in English as well as three other languages.

 

           I write this in the hope , some families may try this or similar method.

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