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.
Within the structure of the progymnasmata, Classical Writing students learn to use proper grammatical constructions as the basis for their sentences. They learn to arrange their writing in a logical and clear way, and finally, they learn to express their ideas in the style best suited to a given audience and occasion. The table below lists each of the fourteen progymnasmata with a short definition and the Classical Writing text which covers it.