"ඉංගිරිසි" බ්ලොග් අඩවියේ ලිපි ගොඩක්
ලියවිලා තියෙනවා. ඒවායේ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවේ විවිධ පැතිකඩ ගැන සාකච්ඡා
කෙරෙනවා. භාවිතයේ පහසුව සඳහා ලිපිවල අන්තර්ගතය අනුව ඒවා මෙසේ වර්ගීකරණය
කරන්නට අදහස් කළා.
ලිපි වර්ගීකරණය
ඉංග්‍රීසියේ ස්වභාවය – Nature of English
Why learn
English
Background of
English in Sri Lanka
What type of
English to learn
Attitude to
English
Right
approach to learning English
Right reasons
to learn English
How long does
it take to learn a language?
Nature of
English
Variety
in English
Information found in a dictionary
Use of ‘be’
Use of ‘there is/are’
Use of ‘it’
Singular and
plural usage
Singular or plural (fish, fruit,
equipment, family, people, data, craft, deer, mathematics, trousers…)
They Are at a Ceremony on a Farm in Kandy - විවිධ තැන්වලදී
Use of ‘in’, ‘at’, ‘on’
Prepositions used after some words
(agree, shout, angry, sorry, happy, care, made)
Prepositions used after some words
(afraid, fear, guilty, anxious, attend, enter, meet, answer)
Using
the media to improve one’s English
කාල භේදය – Tenses
Tenses:
present simple & present continuous
Tenses:
present perfect & present perfect continuous for ongoing actions
Tenses:
past simple & past continuous, used to
Tenses:
present perfect & present perfect continuous for completed actions, past
perfect & past perfect continuous
Tenses:
future simple, going to
Tenses:
future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, future sense in
subordinate clauses
Ability
& inability (can, could, able to, manage to, cannot help)
Asking
& granting permission (can, could, may, shall, should, permitted to,
allowed to)
Probability
(may, might, could)
Some
uses of ‘would’
Some
uses of ‘should’ (& 'ought to')
Obligation
& permission (must, have to, have got to, not permitted to, not allowed to)
Use
of ‘may/might/could/should/would/must… have’
Conditional
sentences (if, if _ not, unless)
Conditional
sentences (real & unreal)
Conditional
sentences (recap)
ක්‍රියා රටා – Verb Patterns
Wishes
& unreal situations (wish, if only, as if, as though, it is time, pretend, imagine,
seem)
Other
uses of ‘if’, omission of ‘if’, use of ‘whether’
Passive
voice
Things to Be Done - කරන්න ඇති දේ
Pending tasks (to do/to be done, to
write/to be written…, so that, in order that)
Likes
& preferences (like, would like, prefer, would prefer, would rather)
Suggestions & wishes (would/do _ mind, had better, would prefer, would rather, suggest/insist/recommend… that, it is important/necessary… that, may)
Needs,
wants, dares (need, want, need not, did not need to, need not have, dare)
Causing
& permitting (make, get, have, let, allow, permit, keep)
Reported
speech (indirect speech)
Infinitives
& gerunds (to go/going, to stop/stopping…) after other words
Bare
infinitives (keep, wash…) in some expressions
Gerunds
(going, stopping…) in certain expressions
වාක්‍ය රටා – Sentence
Pattern
Negative statements & questions
(what, when, who, whose, where, why, how, how many…, else)
What Do You Want? - මොනවද ඕනැ?
Use of ‘what’ & ‘which’
Uses of ‘no’, ‘none of’, ‘neither of’…
Question forms used in other senses
Use of ‘who’ & ‘whom’ (&
‘that’) in questions & relative clauses
Use of ‘that’, ‘which’, ‘in which’…,
‘with whom’…, ‘whose’, ‘when’, ‘where’ in relative clauses & other clauses
Punctuation marks
Quotation marks & punctuation
Where to use upper-case letters
Transcription
of speech (gotta, gonna, wanna, helluva, gimme, lemme, gotcha…)
භාෂා සම්ප්‍රදායන් – Language
Norms
Using the indefinite articles
Using the definite article
Using no article
Use of ‘every’, ‘each’, ‘all’, ‘both’,
‘either’
Different uses of ‘some’ & ‘any’
(something, anything, nothing…, else, other, another)
Referring to quantities (a little, a
few, half, part, a lot, much, many…)
Comparisons (as _ as, equally, more _
than, less _ than, most, least, fewer _ than, fewest, half, twice, three
times…)
Degrees of a quality or quantity (a
little, a bit, slightly, fairly, rather, somewhat, quite, pretty, really, very,
so, such, much, far, a lot, extremely, absolutely, a few, many, too, enough)
Silent
letters
Pronunciation
of some words of French origin
විවිධ
භාවිත – Usage Differences
Today Morning or This Morning? - අපේ කාල සටහන
Time
expressions for the present (now, today, these days, always, already, still,
yet, never, ever…)
Let Bygones Be Bygones? - පහුගිය දේ ගැන
Let Bygones Be Bygones? - පහුගිය දේ ගැන
Time
expressions for the past (ago, yesterday, last week, one day, once, earlier…)
Time
expressions for the future (in,
tomorrow, next week, sometime, someday, never…)
The Picture Was Hung, but the Criminal Was Hanged - මොකක්ද මේ වෙනස?
Regular & irregular verb forms
(hang, lie, shine, get, prove, fit, dive, bear)
Use of ‘as’, ‘like’, ‘so’, ‘as
if’, ‘as _ as’ (‘not so _ as’), ‘as for’, ‘such as’, ‘as such’, ‘as it were’, ‘so as to’
Uses of ‘rather’
Idioms with
‘ride’ (‘garden’, ‘wool’, ‘free’)
Expressions
with ‘face’
Idioms with
‘wall’
Idioms
with ‘red’
Idioms with
parts of the body (arm/leg, nose, feet, hair, eye, fingers, head, shoulder,
heart, head/tail)
Idioms with
‘cake’
Some
catchy idioms
Expressions
with different meanings (hit, mind, heels, lie/lay)
පදවල භාවිත – Uses
of Words
Different
meanings of ‘just’
Different
meanings of ‘get’
Uses of
‘look’, phrasal verbs
Uses of
‘kind’, ‘sort’, ‘type’
Is This a Normal, Ordinary, General or Average Case? - සාමාන්‍යයෙන් අසාමාන්‍ය කඩ්ඩ
Differences of ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’,
‘general’, ‘average’
Differences of ‘of course’,
‘certainly’, ‘surely’, ‘in fact’, ‘actually’, ‘really’, ‘indeed’
Differences of ‘finally’, ‘at last’,
‘last’, ‘lastly’, ‘in the end’, ‘at the end’, ‘eventually’, ‘ultimately’
Use of ‘reject’, ‘refuse’, ‘decline’,
‘deny’, ‘turn down’
Further or Farther - ඉංග්‍රීසි ටැපලිලි
Further or Farther - ඉංග්‍රීසි ටැපලිලි
Commonly confused words:
further/farther, between/among, alternate/alternative, effect/affect
Differences in terrible/terrific,
horrible/horrific, awful/awesome, dreadful/dreaded
Commonly confused words: its/it’s,
free/freely, hard/hardly, as soon as/no sooner, feel well/feel good,
because/because of, loudly/aloud
Commonly confused words:
simple/simplistic, nationalist/nationalistic, historic/historical,
economic/economical, electric/electrical
Use of possessive forms
Use of ‘grateful’, ‘thankful’,
‘during’, ‘later’, ‘there is/are’, ‘it’, ‘too’, ‘enough’, ‘specially’,
‘especially’, ‘say’, ‘tell’
Commonly confused words:
illicit/elicit, illusive/elusive, contemptuous/contemptible,
continuous/continual, sensible/sensitive, comprehensive/comprehensible,
involved, concerned, affected, resolve
ලංකාවේ ඉංග්‍රීසි – English
in Sri Lanka
Expressing
culture-specific concepts in English
සර්වලෝක
පූට්ටුව හා බුද්ධි අංශ - අපේ කඩු හැරවිලි
Inappropriate
translations
Sri
Lankan vs international usage: question tags
Pronunciation
of the initial S in ‘still’, ‘skill’…
Pronunciation of the ‘O’ sounds
Sri
Lankan vs international usage: pronunciation of vowel and consonant sounds,
word stress
Sri
Lankan vs international usage: some colloquial patterns & pronunciation of
certain sounds
Stress
patterns in pronunciation
Agreeing/disagreeing
Sri
Lankan vs international usage: sometimes, perhaps, maybe, of course, otherwise,
why not, bring, take
Sri Lankan vs international
usage: small small, get down from, play out, ask from, discuss about, survive
from, go behind, off
Sri
Lankan vs international usage: in vain, for lies, keep/put, itself/myself…, each other/one another
Sri
Lankan vs international usage: reply, refer, dispose, come, go, give, put on,
wish, wear…
Ayya Also Is There, Akka
Also Is There – අපේ කඩු කෑලි (තව දුරටත්)
Sri
Lankan vs international usage: sentence patterns & word order (even,
have/there is/there are, put, only…)
භාෂාවක්
ඉගෙනීම - Learning
a Language
Polyglot Luca
Lampariello’s steps to learn a language
Prof.
Alexander Arguelles on language-learning methodologies
Prof.
Alexander Arguelles on types of language courses
Websites for
learners of English
Using the website LingQ to learn
English
Expressions
found in the media
State
of English in Sri Lanka
Switching
to the English medium
ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ඉංග්‍රීසි
වික්‍රම - Sri Lankans in Action
Dr.
Dayan Jayathilleke & Dr. Rajiva Wijesinge at UNHCR Headquarters
Kumar
Sangakkara at Lord’s
භාවිතයේ පැතිකඩ (ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන්) - Aspects of Usage (in English)
Various points of language use explained in English
ඊපොත ගැන - About the Ebook
All
‘Ingirisi’ articles in a downloadable ebook
A new format
of the ebook
All
‘Ingirisi’ &
‘Say It Out Loud’ articles in one ebook
(Image
credit: David Goehring)
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