Précis 2

We should face facts as they exist. We are multilingual it is a true, and a very poor
country too. The fear of getting employment or not getting employment springs, out of
that poverty of ours. But once we took courage in both our hands and began to work ,
poverty would vanish and then these languages which have created a narrow regional
spirit instead of being the curse that they seem to us today, would function as magnificent
vehicles of expression for the rich variety of cultural patterns and mode of living and
thought that we have developed. Let us hope that day dawns very soon. A regional
language as the medium of instruction can facilitate the process of education. It helps the
child to learn with ease and interest. But if it is thrust on an unwilling minority used to
another allied language it can vitiate the very process of education. It is supposed to help
and would create difficulties of a socio-political nature.

Vocabulary

1 Multilingual having many language

2 Springs comes, arises
3 Vanish disappear,go,off
4 Regional of region, of area
5 Magnificent good, wonderful
6 Vehicles medium
7 Patterns models
8 Modes way, pattern
9 Facilitate to help, make easy
10 Thrust force
11 Vitiate spoil, corrupt
12 socio-political nature of social and political type.

Points of précis writing

1 our is a multilingual and poor country

2 once we wipe out poverty- the language can be a great asset to us

3 a regional language can enable the child to learn with ease and intrest
4 if the language is forced upon the unwilling population, it checks rather than hel
the process of education.

Précis

Our country though poor yet has many languages. If with effort and dedication, we
are able to wipe out poverty these languages will become a great asset. A regional
language can help the child in picking up things easily. It is only when language is
forced upon the people that it checks the very process of education
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Title

1 education and regional language

In our country, people are poor and speak diverse languages. If with hard work and
dedication poverty is eradicated, these regional languages can become valuable asset
for the country. Learning and education in native language is easy. Whenever an alien
language is forced upon reluctant people, it retards the process of learning and creates
socio-political problems.

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Title:
Regional Languages: An Asset
 UNSOLVED EXERCISE

Speech is a great blessing , but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to
make our intentions and desires known to our fellos, it can also, ifwe use it carelessly,
make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue , the use of unusual
word, or of an ambiguous word, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a
friend. Again, different classes of people use different vocabularies, and ordinary
speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as showing pride:
unwittingly we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listeners from
what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not gift to use lightly without
thought , but one which demands careful handling, only a fool will express himself
alike to all kind and conditions of men .

Vocabulary

1 blessing

2 curse

3 intentions

4 ambiguous

5 strike

6 unwittingly

7 lightly

8 conditions