Thinking activity :The white tiger

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   Today I have one more blog to read which is on very interesting novel, The White Tiger. It is a part of my classroom activity which is assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. Here are the  points...to  write on that. 

  

1. How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?

      

        I agree with that in the  novel and movie also  we can  see the representation of India. First it is the journey about  Balram who is lined in small village named Laxamngarth.

     

   In this village  we can not find any decent school  which situation we can find  still in present in India. Other things is health centre are not  available or if available then  not every necessary things  will be there for patients. 

Then  the capital  Delhi. It is the  capital of India but  corruption and politics which  we can see in movie and read  in novel. 

Now when we are  taking  about India how  we can forget the  cast system and discrimination of Rich and Poor. Ya it is harsh reality that no one will  accept they are  lower or upper.... If they will  became rich they  will  forgot the  situation when they were poor and helpless. 

2. Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?

We can say  that not every story of poor is same who became rich or successful. Some became because of their hard work and never cut others line ,doing corruption or bad politics. In this novel we can say Balram  used  સામ, દામ, દંડ, ભેદ to became successful and he stolen the thought of Ashok.  He got the  idea to be entrepreneur. 

According to common archetypal pattern all poor boy's life turns out into rich. Same is the case with Balram Halwai who grows in a very poor family. He left his schooling and started working in a tea stall. Then he learns driving and becomes driver of rich entrepreneur Ashok Sharma. His dreams are big therefore he decided to kill Mr. Ashok to get his place. After killing his master he steals his identity and become same rich entrepreneur. In many other stories like 'Slumdog Millionaire', 'Boss', 'Once upon a time in Mumbai', Raees' we can find the common archetype of rags to riches where the protagonist begins from poor class turned into Rich in the end or between of the film.

3. "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' (Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The White Tiger? How?

Yes it is possible to read the novel with deconstruction theory. When while reading  a reader starts questioning the very practice of being successful entrepreneur, (like  Balram who became succsseful entrepreneur), we can question Balram's did. In this  novel  Balram used many satirically words and sentences. For  politics and authority or government. Country like India  there,religion is a powerful pillar.

  Through the Character of  Balram  Arvind  Adiga  also  attack on  religion as well. Which we can find in the  school incident. He also satire Hangman,  Bhudhdha. 

4. With ref to screening of the Netflix adaptation:

(i) write review of the film adaptation of The White Tiger...

   The movie is also faithful to the novel. Yes  directer made some changes but  because of some time we can not show or present some  events.

(ii) Have you identified any difference in the novel and the adaptation? Does it make any significant difference in the overall tone and texture of the novel?

    There are  some  differences between movie and novel the white  Tiger. 

* In the novel pinky madam play badminton  with the driver. But in movie when  Aashok plying  tennis  alone and Balram  collect the  ball. 

* These poetic lines bring major changes in both the movie and in the book. In movie, Pinky madam who speaks these lines when she goes to America and in books Bookseller who speaks these lines when Balram Halwai visits the book store and it changes entire life of Balram Halwai from Yokel to rich and successful entrepreneur.

*  Minor change also like the lines of email last which he send to Mr. Jiabao

*Accident scene is also different then novel. 

(iii) David Ehrlich in his review write this - Ramin Bahrani’s Netflix Thriller Is a Brutal Corrective to ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Why is it a 'corrective'? What was the error in Slumdog Millionaire that it is corrected?

 

The  movie  slumdog Millionaire is a famous and appreciated by people. While  the novel is also  marvellous work  by Amiga who  portrait  the real image  India. India in which  we can see  corruption, bad politics. 

In the  both  end are different. Means both  Balram  and Hamid both became successful but  There  is difference. 

Balram became successful to kill his master  Ashok and the telant to  observe.So he made  effort  for that. 

In movie  Slumdog Millionaire Hamid became  rich  giving the right answer in the show.

 So this  is the  corrected by the The White Tiger do. 

Thinking activity : Testing and Evaluation

 Hello readers, welcome to my blog.... Here is my task upon to  write given question... 

1) Validity and reliability  test .

2) Practicality of the test .

3) What do you understand by backwash?

 

4) Difference between assessment and evaluation ?

5) How do you define good assessment? 

  

1)Validity and reliability test .

    Let's see the  definition of these two words first....

Reliability

Reliability refers to how consistently a method measures something. If the same result can be consistently achieved by using the same methods under the same circumstances, the measurement is considered reliable.

Validity

 

 Validity refers to how accurately a method measures what it is intended to measure. If research has high validity, that means it produces results that correspond to real properties, characteristics, and variations in the physical or social world.

2)Practicality of the test .

Practicality

It refers to the economy of time, effort and money in testing. In other words, a test should be easy to design, easy to administer, easy to mark, and easy to interpret the results (Bachman and Palmer, 1996). Moreover, according to Brown (2004) said that the test that is practical it needs to be within the means of financial limitations, appropriate time constraints, easy to administrator, score, and interpret.

3) What do you understand by backwash?

Backwash is the effect that knowledge of the contents of a test may have on the course which precedes it. It may be positive or negative.

Example : If students are working towards an exam where all of the test items focus on grammatical accuracy, the teacher (possibly at the students instigation) may spend much of the preceding course focusing on this area - and possibly neglecting other areas that they will need outside the course such as spoken fluency or listening. Thus the test would have negative backwash - it pushed the teacher into "teaching for the test" rather than providing a balanced course which dealt with all the students needs and developed other areas of competence than just grammatical knowledge.

4) Difference between assessment and evaluation ?

5) How do you define good assessment?

Assessment literacy involves understanding how assessments are made, what type of assessments answer what questions, and how the data from assessments can be used to help teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders make decisions about teaching and learning. Assessment designers strive to create assessments that show a high degree of fidelity to the following five traits:

1.  Content validity

2.  Reliability

3.  Fairness

4.  Student engagement and motivation

5.  Consequential relevance

Thinking activity : Teaching Language through Literature

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         Here is my blog on  teaching language through literature. So question is that  how it is possible ?and what is the method for teaching  this way? So, let's discuss this things in this blog. 

Introduction 

         Literary texts offer a rich source of linguistic input and can help learners to practice the four language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing – in addition to exemplifying grammatical structures and presenting new vocabulary. Through the Drama,Novel,Poem,film, video we can  teach English language. 

So let's see how...

Why teach literature for language teaching?

Literature offers genuine samples, very wide range of styles, registers, and text-types with differing levels of difficulty 

They are best ways to indicate language properties like ‘coherence’ and ‘text organisation’ 

Leads to a general involvement with the text that would not be possible in a literature-lecture classroom

Can lead to an overall development of personality through role plays and other interactive activities

   There are other reasons as well. Further now we will  see how we can teach language through the literature.Here I want to  discuss  about  how we can  teach language through Novel or short story and through film or  video. 

Teaching language through Novel or short story

Using novels in the classroom is beneficial. There are  many plus point which I put here because through it  teacher can  develop the  basic skill of learners, like reading and writing.  and learner as well.

 

Novels encourage students to read outside the classroom and they will know about  new culture so knowledge will be increased. 

  Novels motivate students inside the classroom.

Novels and short stories  develop speaking skills.

Novels enhance listening skills.

 Novels encourage students to read outside the classroom. 

Novels expand students' vocabulary. 

 

Novels motivate students inside the classroom. 

Novels introduce students to different cultures. 

Novels help students overcome cultural differences. 

Novels improve reading skills.  

Novels strengthen writing skills. 

Teaching language through  Film or video 

As we know that video is a audio and visual medium.It is true that  which is watching by anyone it  will be easy to  remember things then  just  reading or listen. 

It will help to  remember things 

Video and it's  subtitle will  help learners to increase the  vocabulary.

When  they will  see  the  writing in video learner will focus on spelling and correct spelling or words they  will  get. 

we can put words and image to gather so teacher can clear concept of things. 

Film will  help  learners to watch  many things and study on that. There is study of camera angle. Which gives so many new things to  learn. 

Here I put  one  video about the one of the approach natural approach  to teach language. This  kind of video will  help to teach student language. 

Conclusion 

 Teaching is not an easy  task. So there are  many ways to teach them  English or any language. Here I talked about  novel short stories and video or film. Through them  we can teach language and literature as well. 

Thinking activity on ON@TCC

 

Hello viewers, here is the blog on the novel One night at the call centre  written by  Chetan Bhagat. 

Introduction 

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian novelist, columnist and motivational speaker. His best famous five novels are in this way for which he is well-known Five Point Someone, The 3 Mistakes of My life, One Night the Call Center, 2 States and What Young India Wants. His language is very lucid and easy to understand. This paper focus upon the personal issues of hope and despair in Chetan Bhagat’s One night the call center. He is a typical author that lies in the mind of the common man. He is dealing with the harsh realities of life and problems faced by the young generation in his works. He holds a mirror to society and presents the reflection of the society of our own country.

         One night at the call centre is the novel written by  Chetan Bhagat.  We can find some  theme and sub theme as well. It is upon Globalisation, self -help, Manippean satire and so on. 

    Here  I want to talk about the  Globalisation. What is it and how  it is related with this  novel. 

What Is Globalization?

Globalization is the spread of products, technology, information, and jobs across national borders and cultures. In economic terms, it describes an interdependence of nations around the globe fostered through free trade.

       Globalization is the spread of products, technology,information, and jobs acrossnations.Corporations in developed nations can gain a competitive edge throughglobalization.Developing countries also benefit through globalization as they tend to be more cost-effective and therefore attract jobs.

The benefits of globalization have been questioned as the positive effects are not necessarily distributed equally.

In this  novel  we can  see the  globalisation through the call  centre. Like  first is language, after that the requirements of job or particular country and the the  call centre is the itself metaphor of the  it. 

English  language is a a global  language. In the call centre  every character like Varun, Shyam,  Esha and other who are  working there,  they have to  speak  English language.It is the reason they  are replace  their identity  with  the western name 

Shyam as Sam

Varun as Victor 

Radhika as Reggina 

Esha as Elina 

   These are some  examples of Globalisation which we can  see in this  novel. 

Youth issues are in the  One night at the  call centre 

In this novel everyone has some kind of problems like, Shyam ones money and job and also successful life room was suffering with the quarreling between his parents Radhika suffering from the marriage life because Anuj is not with her but she is is became a house wife after marriage with him and she should help and care her mother in law and also at night she is working at the call centre but she didn't get love from the Anuj so she is now guilty about that Isha wants to be more than and she give everything and leave  her home parents for the modelling but she can't achieve that aim., and Military Uncle who is a retired army man he wants to live with his son and grandson but because of sound issue between he him and his son he can't Priyanka issue in in her life.

In this way the story of  one night at call center  is based on the reality of the life of common people. The characters portrayed here are taken from the real life. 

    All these characters presented the problems of the middle class Indians. In this novel each character shows the particular problem of the society. In this way the novel denotes the six different problems by six different people. 

     Priyanka represent the girl in India who has to follow the decision of parents at the matter of marriage. God gives the solution to it and tells her to believe in herself. Through the Military uncle Chetan Bhagat tried to show the problems of old people in the society those are betrayed by the family and it is a common and a serious problem in society. At the end he also gets his family back.

    The story of the novel is very simple but the call from God makes it interesting. The conversation with God motivates the group to such an extent that they get ready to face their problems with utmost determination and motivation. There is interesting conversation happen among them... Here is some  dialogue.... 

.....

'A hundred on busy days to hundreds' Vroom  said.

'Okay, now do you know which is the most important coal in the world?'

'No,' room Seth everyone else shook their heads.

'The inner call', God said.

'The inner call? Everyone said in in Unison.

Yes the little voice inside that wants to talk to you but you can only hear it when you are at peace and then to it is hard to hear it because in modern life the network are too busy the voice tells you what you really want do you know what I am talking about?.....

That voice is mine,God said. 

    This is the message that what you want to do do it and listen your inner voice and make hard work and if you get the failure then don't give up but listen your inner voice and do again hard work and get the achievement and  success.

At the end of the novel Shyam and Varun start a new new website business and Radhika working with NGO, Priyanka wants to be teacher so she started B.ed and Radhika file divorce against Anuj, and Military uncle  go to America to meet his grandson.

Conclusion 

     In this  novel  Chetan Bhagat  told the story of India. Some  problems of youth. He gave  message through the call by  God ,that we have ability to do whatever We wish and want. But we are not  listen our  own inner voice but  distract by other voice and people.He also gave  some  way that are important to be successful.