[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 11 | June 1, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Abstract:

The present paper probes the issue related to economic condition Pakistan and differentiate between poor and rich people. It demonstrates how the economic differences create social and emotional problems among these two groups. Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron present these two types of social classes which have unfriendly experience for each others.  The sincere study of this aspect discovers many roots for social disharmony and chaos in Pakistan.

Article

Socio-economic problems of Pakistan stand as microcosm of global problems. The need of the hour is to understand that such economic disparity of a particular nation is not a problem of the nation only. In today’s time, when thousands of unemployed or poor are turning to be terrorist, it can’t be regarded as a problem of Pakistan only. The Novel of Kamila Shamsie thus, do the works of an eye opener for the rest of the world. (more…)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 11 | June 1, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Fancy livening up your classroom with some ready-made video activities? This is thefinal part of a series of four articles in which Keith Harding and Rachel Appleby share ideas for using the stunning new International Express video material. Each unit of the course features a video directly related to the unit topic. Here, Rachel offers ideas for using the clip from Upper Intermediate Unit 6 – PleaseCycle, which focuses on conditionals.

Before you watch

Try out some of these ideas to get your students thinking before they watch.

1. Discussion

You can focus on cycling from a number of angles, for example, you can think of it as a sport (more…)