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3 day workshop in communicative English for
all PRTs at KVS Regional Level, KV Nagaon
Report of 6th May'2007
It was 6th of May 2007. The three days workshop in Communicative
English for all PRTs at KVS regional level was started with
a very beautiful prayer " Itni Shakti Hame de na data
monka biswas Kamjor ho na". It was followed by lighting
of the lamp by the Chief Guest Mr. A.K. Maurya, Principal,
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Missa Cantt, Venue Principal Mr. V.P.
Shukla and subject experts Smt. Shika Baruah Das and Smt.
Bijaya Chakravarty madam. It was followed by a warm welcome
by the venue Principal and melodious welcome song by the tiny
tots of this Vidyalaya. Then we got half an hour for breakfast.
After breakfast Smt. Shikha Saikia Gogoi madam started her
lesson "Learning Language". Language is a system
of systems. It is system of sound, system of structure and
system of meaning. It is essentially a skill of listening,
speaking, reading and writing. She also enlightened us with
how to teach in communicative approach. She also suggested
teachers should speak English in the class as well as in the
school campus to develop speaking skill of the children. After
that Shikha Baruah Das madam taught us about the various methodology
of teaching poems such as i) read aloud the poem both by the
teacher and children, ii) asking few questions related to
the theme of the poem i.e. global comprehension, iii) highlighting
the imagination, iv) use of pictures related to the poem to
make the student by heart the poem very easily and quickly.
Many of our participants also enriched our knowledge in this
regard by expressing their views about the various methodology
of teaching poem. Continuing this session Smt. Bijoya Chakraborty
madam encouraged us to compose short poems by filling with
rhyming words. All the participants actively involved in this
activity. After that she came to the topic role play. Role
play is one of the best way to learn English. Our social,
emotional and coguative development depend on language learning.
Role play is needed to develop speaking skill, triggering
of enthusiasm and understand the feeling. She also enlightened
various points to design a role play like specific aim, giving
situation, assigning roles, avoid confusions etc. She gave
us certain situations and we the participants enacted these
situations with great enjoyment. After that we got lunch break
at 2.15 p.m. After lunch we reassembled in the hall at 2.45
p.m. Then Smt Shikha Saikia Gogoi madam taught us how to writ
formal letters in new formate in a very effective manner which
very beneficial for us. After that Smt. Bijoya Chakraborty
madam told us about various steps for intensive reading like
read the passage, read it again, comprehensive questions,
vocabulary, Grammatical usages global comprehension i.e. simple
questions beyond the text. She gave us certain hand out of
passages to solve. At the same time tea was served to us.
At about 5 p.m. the very first day of our workshop ended up
successfully.
3 day workshop in communicative English for
all PRTs at KVS Regional Level, KV Nagaon
Report of 7th May'2007
The second day's programme of the three
day workshop on communicative English started with an invocation
to the Almighty by the participants and resource persons in
presence of the Principal. This was followed by a reading
of the report on the previous day's programme by Mrs. B. Hazarika.
The morning session began with a lecture
on verbs and tenses by Mrs. B. Chakraborty who demonstrated
the common use of tenses in the English language.
Next on the agenda was a class on determiners by Mrs. Shikha
Gogoi who demonstrated with the help of teaching aids, the
use of articles and adjectives as determiners.
Later on Mrs. Shikha Das explained to the participants the
various rules associated with the change of voice in the English
language. Work sheets related to the topic were also assigned
to the participants.
The morning session concluded with the presentation of class
demonstration by the representatives of the participating
Vidyalayas.
The afternoon session began with a class on vocabulary by
Mrs. B. Chakraborty who gave a list of words that can be developed
amongst children of classes I to V.
This was followed by a lecture on notice, articles and message
writing. Mrs. Shikha Gogoi explained to the participants the
various methods of writing articles and notices.
The day concluded with a talk on the use of dictionary by
Mrs. Shikha Gogoi.
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