Friday, October 31, 2014

EC "ANONYMOUS SPEECH" GAME

In this game the a team member gives a one minute speech about a celebrity/ a person from the class. He/she can also be chosen by the opposite team and in this speech the person should be addressed as he or she ie., it should be an anonymous speech. After the speech (having around 5-6 sentences) the other team has to guess the mysterious person's name.

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EC "DEBATE plus DISCUSSION" GAME

In this game first of all, the two teams come face to face before the class. They should then select a topic for the debate.
Some of the topics that can be used here:

Hostel Life - Home Life

City Life - Village Life
Love Marriage - Arranged Marriage  
Western Culture - Indian Culture
Vegetarianism - Non Vegetarianism
Joint Family - Nuclear Family
In this debate first a team takes a stand(supports an option) and makes a group speech. After this speech lasting for a minute, the other team asks questions regarding the logic of arguments favouring that particular idea. Points are given to the two teams depending upon the rationality/logical sense of their arguments.
On the second day the teams are merged and they discuss how they can have a win-win situation wherein one can have the best of both or how to create the best alternative incorporating the best qualities of both the options.



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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

EC Big Hearts



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PAST IN PRESENT

In this EC exercise the participants talked about a tradition which existed in the past, a ritual/habit/custom followed by people which can also be observed by the present society for a better, happy and enlightened life in today's times. For eg., planting saplings once in a month, minimizing plastics/non bio-degradable/unhealthy products in our daily life.

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ASK ME

In this exercise the participants asked questions to speakers which were given to them by the speakers themselves. This made the speakers better prepared, better empowered to answer questions as they were their own thoughts, their own questions. So there was a lot of self-satisfaction and self-motivation while interacting with the audience.



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EC RTI


In this exercise the students are asked to frame questions which they think need to be addressed through "Right To Information" law in order to seek relevant information for the benefit of citizens/society/social causes. 

A few useful questions for this exercise can be as follows

1. What is the maximum number of passengers in a normal sized bus?


2. Why isn't there a traffic rule in India that pillion riders too(including women, children and elderly) should strictly wear standard and proper helmets?


3. Why isn't there a traffic rule in India that the passengers sitting on the back seats should also wear seat belts?

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