Session started with 1 minute game. Before starting the game, members were divided in to three groups. Each group contained three members (except my group). I was accompanied by Nehal, Alpesh and Chirag. As per rule of the game, we need to speak on the topic written in the card. For giving any new thought on topic, I need to put one pin on the table.
In the first round game was going bit slow but it picked up from the second round (as all got some what experience). I’ve enjoyed and found it a brain storming exercise. It’s a thought exercise where we can judge ourselves as to how quickly we can throw suggestions. I felt that some where I was lacking in flow of thoughts. Initially I was feeling that I can speak a lot in just a 1 minute (60 seconds). But when I started, I was having 15 seconds excess to speak but lacking in flow. Based on the exercise, I feel that it is not important how many counts are there rather it is important, how precise thinking is? At the end of the session when Sanjay explained meaning of idioms used in different topics, I came to know that some where I was lacking in creating nexus between topic assigned and thoughts delivered. Wisdom came after Sanjay explained meaning of idiomsJ
Some of the drawbacks I saw in general that spontaneous example didn’t come up as expected. It justifies that we want lot of thinking before expressing our ideas. According to me, this exercise is helpful to give a quick answer.
I want to mention here one of the real scenarios. There was convocation in IIM, Ahmedabad some times back and dominant personalities were invited as speakers (like: Vijay Malya, Saurabh Patel, N. Narayana Murthy, Karsanbhai Patel and so on). Vijay Malya gave comment on prohibition of liquor in Gujarat and explained how much losses State Government is incurring because of such type of rigid approach. An immediate next speaker Saurabh Patel (Minister of Industry) answered in an appropriate manner in his speech. Such type of spontaneous answer comes in to mind if we have developed ability. Even we have seen that Ministers in a debate. They are very quick in responding. Even once can cater humor if he is having such ability and make presentation more interactive.
Next to game, each of us has been given different articles and asked to find out difficult words and expressions. While going through a single page article (A silly season?), I got 11 new words and few expressions. Basically I saw those words for the first time and therefore it was new for me. As Sanjay mentioned, such usage of words in article or news paper are very common and once we go through every day, we will get familiarize with those words. Normally while reading an article, we understand meaning of a word based on sentence. Here we ignore to go in to the root and update our vocabulary. As mentioned in my earlier blog, vocabulary is important to bring variety in writing.
In the first round game was going bit slow but it picked up from the second round (as all got some what experience). I’ve enjoyed and found it a brain storming exercise. It’s a thought exercise where we can judge ourselves as to how quickly we can throw suggestions. I felt that some where I was lacking in flow of thoughts. Initially I was feeling that I can speak a lot in just a 1 minute (60 seconds). But when I started, I was having 15 seconds excess to speak but lacking in flow. Based on the exercise, I feel that it is not important how many counts are there rather it is important, how precise thinking is? At the end of the session when Sanjay explained meaning of idioms used in different topics, I came to know that some where I was lacking in creating nexus between topic assigned and thoughts delivered. Wisdom came after Sanjay explained meaning of idiomsJ
Some of the drawbacks I saw in general that spontaneous example didn’t come up as expected. It justifies that we want lot of thinking before expressing our ideas. According to me, this exercise is helpful to give a quick answer.
I want to mention here one of the real scenarios. There was convocation in IIM, Ahmedabad some times back and dominant personalities were invited as speakers (like: Vijay Malya, Saurabh Patel, N. Narayana Murthy, Karsanbhai Patel and so on). Vijay Malya gave comment on prohibition of liquor in Gujarat and explained how much losses State Government is incurring because of such type of rigid approach. An immediate next speaker Saurabh Patel (Minister of Industry) answered in an appropriate manner in his speech. Such type of spontaneous answer comes in to mind if we have developed ability. Even we have seen that Ministers in a debate. They are very quick in responding. Even once can cater humor if he is having such ability and make presentation more interactive.
Next to game, each of us has been given different articles and asked to find out difficult words and expressions. While going through a single page article (A silly season?), I got 11 new words and few expressions. Basically I saw those words for the first time and therefore it was new for me. As Sanjay mentioned, such usage of words in article or news paper are very common and once we go through every day, we will get familiarize with those words. Normally while reading an article, we understand meaning of a word based on sentence. Here we ignore to go in to the root and update our vocabulary. As mentioned in my earlier blog, vocabulary is important to bring variety in writing.
We took recap of grammar exercise given in the last session. We largely discussed about usage of Simple Past Tense and Past perfect tense. I believe that now I can understand when to use Past Perfect and Past Perfect.
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