Teaching English in Key Stage One - Grades 1 & 2
FORMAL teaching of English in the school system starts from Grade 3
onwards as teachers professionally qualified and trained to teach
English are being utilized in these grades. Thus, English teachers
are not being allocated time in Primary Grades 1 & 2 classes to
teach English. Moreover, the syllabi in these two Grades were
designed to teach First Language and three other subjects;
Mathematics, Religion and Environment Related Activities.
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Asia watch: Nuclear power and the creation of
global flash-points
WHATEVER their differences may have been on the world's flash points
in the recent past, the US and the predominant powers of the EU seem
to have closed ranks on issues arising from Iran's nuclear programme.
The respective positions of the principal actors in this ongoing
drama are just these: while Iran claims that its nuclear programme
has only peaceful purposes, the Western camp suspects it to be
otherwise.
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