A Role Play : EC Practice with PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS

No. of participants: 32

First step: Gave the participants small slips and asked them to write in one long sentence(max words:50) without losing the focus, a single problem which they are facing now in their life (or place where they live/study/work) or they had faced at some point in past or they think/fear they would face in future.
Time given to write the problem: 10 minutes
Next step: Collected all the slips and put them in a box.
Then: Asked one of them to come to the front, pick one slip, read the problem written on it and give a good solution or give his/her point of view on the issue or share with the class how he/she overcame such a situation if it had ever happened in their life.
The learning outcome: The learners enjoyed the experience and also discovered the art of focussed writing and thinking and above all, the fear of facing an audience and interacting with them was absent. Moreover there was an authentic use of EC without getting into the features of English language. Here the achievement of the exercise was that there was a transformation in thoughts and attitude. 
Source of Inspiration for this exercise: A You Tube Video of Sandeep Maheshwari. 

                                                 Thank you Sandeep....keep inspiring

TO BE CONTINUED....

THE VERBAL INTERACTION EXERCISE

In this exercise all the participants ask questions and interact but they should ask questions using only a particular verb given by the participant who comes forward for doing group interaction.

The questions can be both "Yes/No" or "Wh" types.

For eg. the participants in the audience can ask questions like:

Where do you work?

Where did you work yesterday?

Where will you work tomorrow?

Have you worked today?

Were you working in the morning?

(Here the verb to be used is "WORK")

Similarly other commonly used verbs can used to make questions in the next rounds of interaction)

TO BE CONTINUED...

THE EC TEST FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES !!

Are your students competent in these EC tasks..? If yes..then how many? What percentage?

The EC TASKS are :

1. Can they ask questions to their teachers in English on any topic of public/academic/vocational interest?
2. Can they answer questions about their own "self" ie., Personal, Educational, Family and Career aspects?
3. Can they make polite requests to get help from strangers in buses,trains or a foreign place?
4. Can they take part in a group discussion and help in shaping the group opinion/perception on the given issue?
5. Can they disagree with someone in a pleasant, peaceful and positive manner?
6. Can they talk to tourists and guide them to a tourist destination in a warm and polite manner?
7. Can they make a good speech which is direct, less formal thus inspiring and heart touching?

I hope such a test and its feedback analysis  adds to your reputation as well as evolution...Good Wishes always.....Grow forever.

VOICE OF THE VOICELESS

VOICE OF THE VOICELESS Learning Passive Voice Exercise

Change into passive voice:

I serve food.

I am serving food.

I have served food.

I served food yesterday.

I was serving food yesterday.

I will serve food.

After understanding the above, the students interact with the audience, imagining that they are now an object say a restaurant/newspaper/whiteboard/classroom which can speak. Questions can be made like:

When were you established/manufactured and by whom?

Were you being used yesterday?

Are you being used now?

Are you maintained properly?

Will you be changed in any way in future?

TO BE CONTINUED...

REDEFINING EXPERIENCES

 REASSURING

Today I was told on phone by an institute that I had to take a class at 2 pm. The call was annoying to me at that moment because it came while I was in the middle of a formal conversation. But now when I look at it from the point of view of the other person at the institute it was REASSURING.




TO BE CONTINUED...

EC Image Consultants

Name of the role play: Starting an Image Consultancy

First divided the class into seven teams with five members in each team.

The team members then have to find a name for their firm. Next they have to find their first client. The client can be a person, an organization or a state. In case of person, he/she can be a job seeker who needs to attend interviews or also a  celebrity or even a reputed and experienced professional who wants to make a career shift.

You need to tell your clients what steps they should take so that their present image is changed to the desired new image.
During this role play exercise students imagined clients like cricketers, actors, restaurants, political leaders etc.
Mood in the class: Fully engaged in the activity, laughter and fun.
No. of students who participated in the exercise: 37
Qualification: Graduation or above.
Duration: 1 hour

...to be continued

GREAT WORDS

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnfkenn109213.html#dPaTv6GC5Bem4KI1.Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius

"If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you!"   

--Bible

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.   Edwin Chaplin

"The nature of our future depends on the future of our NATURE." Anonymous

Life is an adventure that transcends our ordinary, linear way of thinking. Robert Lanza

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
John F.Kennedy

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnfkenn109213.html#dPaTv6GC5Bem4KI1.99

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnfkenn109213.html#dPaTv6GC5Bem4KI1.99

 "To be, or not to be, that is the question"

William Shakespeare in Hamlet 

"Arise, awake and stop not till you reach your goal."

Swami Vivekananda

"Find purpose, the means will follow."
Mahatma Gandhi  

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Neil Armstrong ...on landing on Moon in 1969                     "Generations to come... will scarcely believe that such a man as this...ever in flesh and blood... walked upon this Earth.” Albert Einstein on Mahatma Gandhi 's 70th birthday

There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein People who succeed in life are those who have learned how to take any challenge that life gives them and communicate that experience to themselves in a way that causes them to successfully change things. Antony Robbins I 'll make my voice heard. I'll go out into the world and work for mankind! Anne Frank on 11 April 1944 When we quit thinking about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.  ---Joseph Campbell  If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. ---Karl Marx

To be continued...