Former Presidents of Sri Lanka lived in the Janadhipathi Mandiraya  (President's House) in Colombo 1 but due to security reasons Mr. R.  Premadasa preferred Temple Trees res â¦ idence (Prime Minister's  House).
Functional Writing Activities. Students can learn functional writing with a variety of activities. Functional writing is the practice of expressing specific information meant to mirror real-life scenarios such as how to make or do something, giving advice, inviting someone to something or telling what happened in a specific situation.
Functional illiteracy is contrasted with illiteracy in the strict sense, meaning the inability to read or write simple sentences in any language. Foreigners who cannot read and write in the native language where they live may also be considered functionally illiterate.