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On the first attempt of my video lesson, a few of my students and my learned friends made suggestions to cut short the length and to be more precise with the explaination. So here is the trail with the same content.

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Lesson: The Third Level : A Science Fiction Date 16/04/2020 The story The Third Level explores the science fiction genre of ‘ time travel ’ ; Jack  Finney, the World Fantasy Award winner intertwine fantasy with the reality in the  most futuristic projection of time travel. Charley a thirty one year old having worked late at night enters Grand Central station  to board a train home. The station is large having various corridors and two levels  giving a way to many trains, so he loses his way there . He finds himself in what he  thinks is the third level of the station(In reality only two exists) . He realizes that something is different there- the people dressed differently , the area lit no electricity  but with open gas fires . He concludes that he has somehow entered in the year 1894 ,  looking the date June 11, 1894 on the news paper ‘ The World ’ (which is in reality  closed many years ago). Filled with excitem...

Date 15 th April 2020 The Third Level : Intro & glossary Dear Students Today you are given the task of reading the actual story, you need to refer the  following background of the story. The Third Level is written by sci-fi and thriller author Jack Finney. The story is a time travel story. The setting of the story is as below : Setting -               A] Place -                                              1. A realistic world                                                      1. The Grand Central Station, New York (USA) - (1950)                                 ...

Lesson 05 Analysis : The Last Lesson 12 th April 2020  1. Linguistic Chauvinism Theme of linguistic chauvinism brought out in the story. The Last Lesson is a story  that speaks of importance of our own language and how closely one ’ s language is  linked to one ’ s identity. Theme of linguistic chauvinism brought out in the story. The  story demonstrates how the linguistic chauvinism of one race can lead to the  enslavement of another and what we as individuals can do to overcome such a  challenge. 2. Pain That Is Inflicted Upon The People Of Alsace The story also depicts the pain that is inflicted upon the people of Alsace by taking  away their right to study their own language. One ’ s language is considered as one ’ s  identity and originality, therefore it is an assault(attack) on their existence itself. 3. Realisation, Remorse and Regret The deep connection between identity and language becomes stronge...

Lesson 4 The Last Lesson Part 3 Date : 12 th April 2020 Dear students In the continuation of the first two session, let’s have the next session “ My children, this is the last lesson I shall give you. The order has come from Berlin to  teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. This  is your last French lesson. I want you to be very attentive. ” This is a terrible shock to Franz. He regrets at not having taken his French lessons seriously,  choosing instead to peek at the birds ’ nest and go sliding on the Saar desert. This is to be his last  lesson and he doesn ’ t even know how to write. He also feels sad for M. Hamel, a man who had  given forty years of service to the place and who was being told to leave it forever. He  understands the regret of the village folks at not having taken their language seriously either.  The recitation of lessons begin and M. Hamel calls little Franz to r...

Lesson4 The Last Lesson part 1- 11th Apr 2020 The Last Lesson: IntroductionHistorical Context of The Last Lesson Daudet speak of age during the Second French Empire (1852-1870), headed by Emperor  Napoleon III (nephew to Napoleon I, ruler of the fifirst empire). This was a time of expansive  economic and cultural growth in France, under the Napoleon III’s effective dictatorship. But  Napoleon’s emperorship come to an end with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Prussia,  (then consisting of Germany, Poland, and parts of Austria), a growing military power at that time  had ambitions to unify all of the independent German states of Europe. This was resisted by  France, which declared war on Prussia in July of 1870. The Prussians, however, quickly attacked and won the parts of northeastern France, including  Alsace-Lorraine, The French were defeated in 1871, a loss that led to the end of the Second  Empire and the reign of Napol...

Lesson 3,          Linguistic chauvinism& Cultural Hegemony              10th April 2020 A. Linguistic chauvinism is an ideology carried by people of certain language and believes that                   1. Their language is superior to all other languages by all means                   2. They enforce/impose/ oppress  their language over to others                   3. They hate/ suppress /oppose other language. B. In Imperialism, a geographical territory is ruled, and looted economically by certain rulers. In Colonialism, along with geographical and economical exploitation, people of ruled territory are manipulated in Cultural hegemony. C. Cultural hegemony is an enforcement  of rulers' culture, believing it as superior/supreme, over the ruled one. Now a ...