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Kris Srikkanth combines cricket with English for online course
- Updated: June 22, 2016
Kolkata: Former India cricketer Kris Srikkanth has total South Asia’s favourite competition with an online march to come adult with an beginning called ‘EnglishStrokes’ that has already helped thousands of students urge their English vocalization skills.
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The programme is a corner try between Srikkanth’s association AA Edutech and a British Council.
“We use a denunciation of cricket to assistance people learn English. Something like Oh! What a smashing shot! Where we make them learn that smashing here is an adjective,” Srikkanth told a media here on Wednesday.
The 1983 World Cup leader pronounced they have had a tie adult with Common Service Centres to assistance a judgment grow in farming areas.
“It has been really good supposed in a market. The Common Service Centres sell mixed services in a farming areas in around 1,20,000 locations. So we have tied adult with them. They will now sell EnglishStrokes by their centres,” he said.
“You see all is digital these days. And digital training is a approach forward.”
The march has listening activities, video content, games, conversations, cricketing facts, fun tasks and denunciation exercises. There are also anecdotes from favourite cricket players, their profiles and one can also watch them in movement that adds to a fun.
Alan Gemmell, OBE, Director of British Council India, also announced initiatives like UK-India 2017 Digital Open Call and ‘Mix a Play’.
The former is a module by that a British Council is looking for brilliant, artistic and digital ideas.
“Five projects will be comparison for seed appropriation of 10,000 pounds any by a finish of July,” pronounced Gemmell, who addressed a eventuality around Skype.
“It is a call for what some-more we can do to move together Britain and India culturally.”
‘Mix a Play’ on a other palm offers digital audiences a possibility to play executive of one of Shakespearea’s many renouned plays ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Visitors to a ‘Mix a Play’ website will be invited to make a brief film from a stage of a play.
The generation of a stage should be underneath 3 minutes.
“You will be a executive of a scene. You can select your cast, setting, credentials song etc,” Gemmell said.