Mistakes in textbook
Social Studies and Bangladesh, Book-5 (Second Edition-Nov 2008) contains a lot of language errors which are very misleading for the children. The book contains a preface where the publisher did not acknowledge the errors to correct in future editions of the same. This book is mainly prescribed for the children of English medium schools in Bangladesh. Consequently, most of the children learn wrong English. For example in page 54, chapter 8, there is a wrong sentence written like -- "The children of different groups of Sri Lanka varies from one another ...." But the correct sentence should be -- "The children of different groups of Sri Lanka vary from one another...." There are more serious spelling mistakes in the same page. Similarly, there are more grave language and printing mistakes throughout the book.
I hope the author/publisher would take full responsibility to rectify, modify or remove the unwarranted flaws in the coming editions.
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