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Countable and Uncountable Nouns

How good are you at counting Nouns?
A Noun is Countable when you can use either the singular or plural form of the noun. Example: rickshaw - a rickshaw - some rickshaws. On the other hand Uncountable nouns are those which you can use only in the singular form. Example: information - some information


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Test your English Language and Grammar Understanding

Verb Usage
Put The Verbs in Parentheses into the Correct Tense. Once you have decided on your answer, click on the arrow to check if you are correct.
EXAMPLE: Harish is (be) very tall.


  1. Unfortunately, the traffic held me up. When I arrived at the airport, the plane (already/leave).
  2. (you/see) the new Harley model yet?
  3. After he (get) home he (make) himself a cup of tea.
  4. What clothes (you/take) with you on holiday next week?
  5. I (watch) TV when Ma telephoned.
  6. When I was young our family (go) on picnics every Sunday.
  7. Don't worry Manish (be/always) late.
  8. Unless you (study) , you (not/pass) the exam.
  9. You look tired!
    Yes, I feel tired. I (work) a lot recently.
  10. I (be used to/get up) early in the morning now, but before I wasn't.

Sentence Transformation
Rewrite the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Once you have decided on your answer, click on the arrow to check if you are correct.

Example: Do you have a bicycle?
Have you got a bicycle?
  1. The exam was so easy that everyone passed it.
    It was exam
  2. Although he was well paid in his new job he wasn't very happy.
    Despite
  3. I started learning English three years ago.                                                                                       I've
  4. June asked, "Are you going tonight?"                                                                                               June asked
  5. You won't pass this exam if you don't study.
    Unless

The following is a practice test for intermediate levels testing tense usage and vocabulary accuracy. Feel free to use this test in class and/or share with your friends and colleagues.
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Elements of an Effective Communicator

Active listening
Watching and listening play a big part in effective communication. The goal of active listening is to understand not just the words a person says but the meaning or point of view the person is trying to get across.

Timing and setting:
Some settings make communicating easier, just as certain times seem to be better than others. Be sensitive to potential problems and eliminate distractions by choosing the right time & place. For instance when calling on someone important over the mobile we must reconsider the time of the day, and also instinctively go to a corner which is less noisy and has good network coverage

Effective self-expression:
Be sensitive to your own style of communicating. Take note of how you say things. Are you saying what you really mean? Are you saying it clearly and simply?

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Your Career Our Focus

Our Spoken English Courses have been developed with a sound understanding of various limitations like hesitation, weak Grammar, insufficient Vocabulary, poor Sentence Construction – which students from non-English boards experience while conversing in English. While enrolling a candidate for any of the Communication Development courses we make an assessment of the candidate’s overall English standards. This helps us to assign the right batch for the enrollee so that she/he can get a healthy learning environment with like-minded batch-mates to interact and mutually enrich their understanding of the English Language.
Our Business English courses have been developed considering attributes infuencing “on-the-job success” like Positive Attitude, Organisational Behaviour, Corporate ethics & etiquettes, Basic Human Psychology etc. They amongst other things also include various case studies to stimulate real-life business situations and the requisite communication in handling such situations. This provides our students with a lot of valuable insight of the real professional world.  We thus make sure that TICL’s Business English courses reflect the needs of the market. 

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Lets Get UP & Running

What's up with ‘UP’!

There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is “up.”

It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

It’s easy to understand ‘up', meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake ‘up'?

At a meeting, why does a topic come up? Why do we speak up, and why are the officers up for election, and why is it up to the secretary to write up a report?

We call up our friends and we use up the opportunity to brighten up our home, after the party is up we warm up the leftovers and clean up the kitchen. We were once locked up in the house, it was Pooja who had messed up and forgotten the keys at her’s cousin’s place uptown. Some guy who’d come to fix up the old car, rescued us from the holdup.

At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir up trouble, line up for tickets, work up an appetite, think up excuses, make up for a loss, ….

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed up is special.

And this up is confusing:

A drain must be opened up because it is stopped up.

We open up a store in the morning but we close it up at night. We seem to be pretty mixed up about up!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of 'up' look the word up in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes up almost 1/4 of the page and can add up to about thirty definitions.

If you are up to it, you might try building up a list of the many ways up is used. It will take up a lot of your time, but if you don’t give up, you may wind up with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding up. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing up. When it rains, it wets up the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry up.

One could go on & on, but I’ll wrap it up, for now …my time is up, so time to shut UP!

Happy Reading…Lets get up and running, speed up the process of learning!

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