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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Vision-Values-Action Exercise

In this exercise the participants talked about an action of theirs which had a long term vision in mind and also values valued by them like health, commitment to family, friendship, nation building etc.

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EC 5 STEPS

The five EC(easy) steps to learn and practice EC are:

1. Regular Use of a Dictionary

2. Regular Reading of Newspapers/Magazines

3. Regular Reading of books to understand the sentence patterns of past, present (and future too).

4. Regularly Browsing blogs/websites/youtube videos for new ideas in EC.

5. Regularly Challenging yourself by facing new situations which demand pushing the boundaries of comfort and predictability and thus exploring new frontiers. 

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THE END GAME

In this exercise the participants write a few lines about their goals, dreams, aims, desires, destination in life and talk to the audience about where they want to go/reach in life, what they want to see/be/do/feel/have/experience/understand/realize/fulfill...in short, this EC exercise is  about self-actualization.

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EC Pledge

I, (Full Name) with these 40 sentences can now think in English. 

I, (Full Name) will utilise every chance I get to improve my English Communication skills  and I, (Full Name) will become a better English Communicator every minute.

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