Interactive English (Language Lab Manual)
Day
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30 minutes
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30 minutes
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30 minutes
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30 minutes
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1
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News Reading/Reading texts (English)
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Activity
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Activity/Discussion(English)
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Activity
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2
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Brainstorming
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Dialogue writing
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Conversations
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GDs
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3
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Creative Writing- stories/verse/dialogue
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Note-taking
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Interviewing/Declamation
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Pronunciation and Accent Correction(English)
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4
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Paragraph Writing
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Interpreting Visuals(coins/paintings/pictures)
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PPTs/Debates
Or work with language lab software
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PPTs/Debates
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5
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Anchoring/Moderating (English)in GDs
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Moderating Discussions
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Drawing/Sketching/Visual representation of Development Stories.
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Drawing/Sketching of Imaginative
stories
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Salient Points:
- Any text may be used for Pronunciation sessions from fiction to news
stories.
- Any person of any class/age/gender/background may be interviewed for
the session considering the decorum and sanctity of the institution.
- Declamation topics will be given (two to three days) in advance.
- Debate topics may be given (six to seven days) in advance.
- Discussion topics can be given two to three days in advance or for
instant treatment depending on the complexity of the issue.
- After installation of language lab software, Desktops/PCs will be available
for browsing and accent improvement.
7.
Newspapers may be made available in English.
- Power point Presentations will be held in later phase with active
presenter from beginning to end.
- As alternative, movies may be screened on any other day followed by discussion
and review.
Suggested
Exercises:
- Make a chart of any favourite popular illustration of a scientific
concept already published and point out the traits that make it popular.
- Take any one difficult concept of science and illustrate it through a
creative example or visual to make it easy to grasp.
- Compose or Craft an issue based comic strip dealing with environment
/health/sanitation.Understand the importance of correct body language
(Guessing idioms through dumb charades).
- Vote appeal/ Students will be able to set agenda for a hypothetical
electoral campaign.
- Coin activity: empathizing and willing suspension of disbelief(getting
over anthropocentric viewpoint)
- Grapevine/Chinese whisper- effect of noise on channel.
- Teach how to make effective presentations.
- Discuss some popular comic strips and work of some poplar cartoonists.
Understand how caricature and humour can help political commentary.
- Basic phonetics and Transcription.
- Interviewing
- SWOC
- Moderating discussions/anchoring
- Declamations/Debates
Suggested Topics:
- Interviewing:
Fictional- here the interviewee will be a fictional
person/character/historical figure/animation hero of interviewer’s choice- the
conversation will be imaginative and the dialogue will be written beforehand.
Real-the interview may be spontaneous or worked-out
depending on assignment. The interviewee will be a real person and tape of the
interview may be furnished, if it is not held in the class.
- Declamation
GST, Diplomatic ties with Israel; Rift with China;
Social Security in India; Problems riddling Indian agriculture and solutions;
Role of IMF, Role of WTO and GATT in the world; BREXIT/Bitcoins/End of
EU/Syrian crisis/ Globalization; any other.
- Debate
Any social/economic/political/legal topic may be
chosen: Right to property/Fundamental Rights/ Reforms in education system/RTI s
and transparency/ PILs/Betting in cricket/New formats in sports/ violence for
entertainment/womens’liberation/emancipation /reservation policy.
- Discussion /Moderating/Talkshow
Any current topic of national/international
importance-
General Note: Students will be encouraged to think on
local/regional/national and global levels adopting STEP approach, that is,
issues and solutions both are social, technical, economic and political.
Everything is interconnected.
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