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Buzz of activity at British Council
Children at a painting workshop at the British Council in New Delhi.
THERE IS a buzz around the British Council on Kasturba Gandhi Marg in New Delhi these days. Simultaneously on are many programmes keeping both children and their parents busy. Celebrating the end of their summer camp this past Friday, a group of children were seen displaying their art work at the Queen's Gallery and also staging a play along side a poem recital session.
The children were part of the three-week workshop held for three different age groups where programmes were offered for improving their written and spoken English. While the children presented whatever they had studied in different forms, they were also invited to participate in a painting competition and their works were displayed at the Queen's Gallery.
"On Friday, the students at the English Language Teaching Centre staged a play written by them as part of their courses in the language. Also displayed were some of their written project works. The entire exercise was aimed at demonstrating how the children have been improving their language skills, pronunciation and confidence through music, drama and films as well though a variety of written projects," explained the Head of English Language Services in India, Alison Barrett.
Speaking about the Annual Young Learners' Art Competition at the Queen's Gallery on the theme "My Favourite Place", Ms. Barrett said: "Three winners from each class will enter a competition for the best three paintings overall. These three will then be sent to London to enter the Global Young Learner Art Competition, the winner of which will receive a free course at the English Language Teaching Centre and his painting will appear in a calendar and desk top diary next year."
Yes, that isn't all that the British Council has to offer this season. On the anvil are a series of other programmes that include story-telling sessions for children in the 5-to-7 age group. Students will be shown an object and a few opening lines will be given to help them build a story. After which each child will be asked to add a line each and develop the story.
Also coming up are Vocabulary Building Classes which begin on June 12 for children in the 8-to-11 age group. The children will be shown an interesting advertisement from a magazine and will be given an adjective regarding the advertisement. They will then knit those words into a creative write-up and impromptu skits based on the write-up will also be enacted. Besides, there are personality development workshops for children in the 12-to-15 age group and personal grooming for children between 12 and 15 years. Here the youngsters would be groomed and taught the right postures, etiquette and the right manner of dressing up.
By Bindu Shajan Perappadan
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