![]() ![]() after all, they too, had been brought up on the staple of baa, baa black sheep'' and little bo-peep. ![]() no wonder even the teachers are finding this hard to digest. instead, children are made to read bengali poems that merely include english words in them. the book does not start with the alphabet. welcome to the world of chharha o chhobitey ingreji shekha (learn english through rhymes and pictures) - a textbook introduced to students of class ii in government schools. far from the tried and tested formulae of ''a is for apple, b is for ball'' and nursery rhymes from mother goose, children today are being taught to rhyme m-n-o-p with ''sheet kaale khaai khoob bandhakopee (we eat lots of cauliflower during the winter)'' or i-j-k-l with ''ghanta shunnchhi, porlo ki bell? (we hear the tolls, is it the bell?)''. or so it seems, if the new book that has been introduced for children in class ii of government schools is taken into account. let alone dreaming in the language, the new credo here is learn english. ![]() Kolkata: ''if you want to learn english, think in english, speak in english, dream in english'' - went the old saying. ![]()
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