ENGLISH FOR STUDENTS

One of the questions in the GCE O/L paper is paragraph writing. This question carries 5 marks and is a paper 1 question. I hope this would be very useful to average students. Write paragraphs for the following topics. Your paragraph should contain 50 – 60 words. 1.   A visit to the village fair      2. If I were a bird          3. The College English Day        4. The Value of Friendship       5. Books are our friends     6. The internet          7. Newspapers       8. My Ambition          9. The person I like most    10. How I spend my leisure          11. My favourite pastime      12. My favourite animal   13. The joy of travelling         14. How I spent my last weekend         15. My favourite sport      16. An unforgettable trip       17. A shramadana campaign      18. A visit to a botanical garden    19. Water is an important resource.        20. A place of historic importance in Sri Lanka. (1)     21. A place of historic importan

             Gerund after prepositions( some examples )                                         Preposition              ........            Gerund                       I’m afraid  of                                                 swimming . 1.       How can you know if you are capable  of  do ing  (something) or not? ______________________________________________________ 2.       Which kind of people do you think are capable  of  doi ng  something extraordinary? ______________________________________________________ 3.       Are you capable  of  treat ing  everyone the same? ______________________________________________________ 4.       Are you capable  of  liv ing  on your own? ______________________________________________________ 5.       Are you capable  of  forgiv ing ? ______________________________________________________ 6.       Are you afraid  of  go ing  abroad alone? ______________________________________________________ 7.