Some Words to Know

Mesmerize - to hypnotize, dazzle and control
Ravish - to transport with joy or delight or force to have sex without one's will
Woe - grief, sorrow, misery, heavy calamity
Propensity - bias, bent, tendency
Aphorism - general truth expressed in concise saying
Deterent - that which prevents or deters
Sluice - an opening or channel through which anything flow
Wary - cautious, apprehensive, guarding against danger
Detriment - that which injuries or cause damage, michief or harm
Philstine - a person deficient in liberal culural refinement
Embellish - to decorate or make beautiful
Quibble - to raise an insignificient point
Abut - to border, be contagious, to meet
Encumbered - burdened, weighed down
Eddy - a current of water or air moving in a circular direction
Asperity - harshness, roughness of temper
Bequest - that which is left by will, esp. personal property
Restitution - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Strop - a piece of leather used for sharpening
Fulminate - to make a loud, sudden noise, to send forth decrees with force or authority
Repugnant - hostile, disposed to war, offensive
Anhedonic - unable to experience pleasure
Diminutive - below the average size, very small, little
Lustrous - shining (particularly from reflected light), glittering, bright
Languid - dropping or flagging from exhaustion, weak, without animation
Unsullied - unspoiled, pure
Inebraited - drunk
Scurrilous - using indecent language, offensive
Discombobulated - confused, and may be a little upset
Wizened - dried, shriveled, withered
Desist - to cease to proceed or act to stop
Emaciate - to become or to cause to become very thin
Bastion - a fortified place
Welter - to rise and fall as waves, to tumble over
Lurk - to lie in wait, to keep out of sight
Argot - Jargon, lingo, the lg of a particular class, register

Enhancing the Department of English

Some Strategies for Enhancing the Department of English of
Janamaitri Multiple Campus

Strategy 1
Make all teachers accessible to modern technology (ICTs), especially to the computer and the Internet.
For this:
- Email Id
- Use of Email and the use various required websites such websites for e-discussion
- Introduction to the websites useful for teachers
- Discussion on the use of Internet for developing teachers competence

Strategy 2
Encourage all teachers to be researchers
For this:
- Habit of reading and writing before teaching
- Habit of reading and writing after teaching
- Encourage for research oriented teaching
- Motivate for research oriented writing
- Training on research methodology
· Institutions that provide grants for faculty/fresh researchers
· Institutions that publish research articles/findings

Strategy 3

English language training for teachers

For this:
- Use of ICTs, especially computer and Internet for enhancing English language for teachers
- Introduction/approach to the institutions that provide training to teachers
· British Council
· NELTA
- Encourage/facilitate teachers to be trainers
· Encourage/opportune to be trainee first

Strategy 4
English language training for students
For this:
- Co-curricular activities for improving English
· Written activities
· Spoken activities
- English language training package for students
· Seasonal training package (Winter, Summer, Spring …)
· Session training package (Pre-session, While-session, Post-session)
1. Form a committee of teachers
2. Prepare training materials
3. Devise training package for different levels
- Decide by giving placement tests and enrollment level of the students
- Make students familiar with ICTs and use of them for improving English
- Introduce how to practice English using commercial software such as CDs of TOEFL and GRE


Materials and support

- A separate room
- A computer (laptop if possible) and a projector which can be of the Campus belonging to all the Departments
- Some books
- Facility for printing and Xeroxing
- A hall for making presentations and conducting trainings
- Full moral and academic support from campus administration with trust and confidence