Sunday, December 14, 2014
Sunday, September 27, 2009
"LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING AND WRITING"
MASTERY OF LANGUAGE :
1. Learning English is fun.
2. Key to mastery of language - patience, diligence, and determination.
3. Motivation and interest are key to learn languages.
4. Nothing can be mastered in a "twinkle of an eye".
5. " Rome was not built in a day" and so is the learning of English.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth.
"The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them."
– Sunday Times
– Sunday Times



I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear the water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear the water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
1892
1892
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