1. English Improvement Tips
Weekly Newsletter. Date: 27th August 2011.
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Vocabulary
Idioms and sayings
Slang Words
Common Grammatical Errors
Weekly Quiz Contest
Inspirational Thoughts
Tenses
Phrasal Verbs

2. Table of Contents Vocabulary – Word of the Week
Phrasal Verb of the Week
Common Spoken English Errors
Phrase of the Week
Inspirational Thought of the Week
Weekly Quiz Contest

3. Word of the Week: Fringe
Fringe is a noun. It means the outer or less important part of an area, group or activity.
Ex: Narela is located on the eastern fringe of Delhi.
Ex: Some fringe groups of the anti-corruption movement are creating civic nuisance in Delhi.
The word Fringe benefits means some extra benefits that you get because of your job which are not a part of the salary.
Ex: A free car with a siren is one of the fringe benefits of a government job.
Ex: The salary in the army is not good, but there are many fringe benefits of an army job.

4. Phrasal Verb of the Week – Drop in
Drop in means to visit a person casually and often without prior information.
Ex: My friends dropped in last night and they stayed for dinner.
Ex: Why don’t you drop in at my home sometime?
Ex: Let’s drop in on Ashok today.
Ex: Many people dropped in to congratulate him on his victory.

5. Common Spoken English Errors
What is the mistake in these sentences?
India has his own culture and traditions.
USA sent his soldiers to attack and kill Osama Bin Laden.
Mistake is in the usage of ‘his’ for ownership pronoun of countries.
We use its or their for ownership pronoun of countries.
Hindi: India apna PM har paanch saal bad chunti hai.
English: India selects its/her PM after every five years.
For ‘apna’ when the subject is a country use its or her.
The reason for this is that we can either see our country as our mother land and so we can treat it as a female and use ‘she’
Or we can treat it as a non-living thing and use ‘it’.
The only exception to this rule is Germany which is ‘he’.
Correct sentence 1: India has her/its own culture......
Correct sentence 2: USA sent her/its soldiers to

6. Phrase of the Week “Hit the jackpot”
Jackpot is a word that comes from gambling games. When 4-5 people are playing a gambling game with cards, and the total money that is on the table which any one of them can win – it is called ‘jackpot’.
So to hit the jackpot means to win a large amount of money through gambling or lottery.
Ex: Ramesh hit the jackpot last night when he won the lottery. (poker is a card game)
Hit the jackpot also means when you suddenly become very successful and get a lot of money.
Ex: Sonakshi Sinha hit the jackpot when she got the starring road in Dabang opposite Salman Khan.

7. Inspirational Thought of the week
One bad apple spoils the lot.
Hindi: Ek buri machchli poorey taalab ko ganda kar dete hai.
If you are storing apples in a basket, and one apple is spoiled or rotten, then it can cause the apples near it to also spoil and rot.
It basically means that one bad person can spoil the people around him.
Or one corrupt man can make other people around him also corrupt.
Ex: You should vote for your MLA very carefully because one bad apple spoils the lot.

8. Weekly Quiz Contest Correct the errors:
I am waiting for anybody to come and help me.
I am going to reach at your home soon.
I am lefting my job for a better job.
the correct sentences to before 10 PM, Friday, 2nd of September. One lucky person with all correct answers will win Unnati’s Vocabulary Builder booklet.
Answers to last week’s quiz:
I can compromise on my salary for a better profile.
How many people were arrested by the police?
Are you not satisfied with your salary?
Best response of last week: Sualeha Faridi.

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