“In the Ghetto” - Ankit’s favorite word!
On beginning of the session, Sanjay asked us to jot down points on “Ghetto”. Always there are two sides of a coin. According to me, word “Ghetto” has two paradoxical meaning. On one way it’s a symbol of discipline. On the contrary, it’s a pictogram of blind followers. Both are dangerous…!
We are habituated in listening Hindi and Gujarati songs. While watching English movie, when English song comes up, we switch on channel. Reason…? We don’t like it or we don’t understand it? I would say we’ve never tried to listen carefully and essence behind it.
In the earlier sessions, we learned about bringing variety in writing. Same was after listening song; I would say we should bring variety in listening. This wisdom came after listening song “In the Ghetto”. Let’s see how long it lasts:).
When song started, frankly speaking; I couldn’t understood anything except some of the words, like: “In the Ghetto”, “And his mama cries”, Energy young man”. We heard song for second time and then a third time. Surprisingly, when I heard song for third time with the help of a paper exercise, outcome was totally different than expected. It’s really…really beautiful song but a sad story. It’s really a heart touching song. Why mama cries? Why angry young man dies? What’s happened to a child?
So what’s the take-out from the story?
Grippingly, it’s all about developing understanding and listening ability. Use of phrases, adjectives, collocations and idioms makes the sentence more and more interesting.
The second part of the exercise was all about understanding and listening ability. We have been given different cards and asked to put n a sequence of song. This can be possible only when we heard song in a proper sequence. Our group was wrong on 4 places.
On beginning of the session, Sanjay asked us to jot down points on “Ghetto”. Always there are two sides of a coin. According to me, word “Ghetto” has two paradoxical meaning. On one way it’s a symbol of discipline. On the contrary, it’s a pictogram of blind followers. Both are dangerous…!
We are habituated in listening Hindi and Gujarati songs. While watching English movie, when English song comes up, we switch on channel. Reason…? We don’t like it or we don’t understand it? I would say we’ve never tried to listen carefully and essence behind it.
In the earlier sessions, we learned about bringing variety in writing. Same was after listening song; I would say we should bring variety in listening. This wisdom came after listening song “In the Ghetto”. Let’s see how long it lasts:).
When song started, frankly speaking; I couldn’t understood anything except some of the words, like: “In the Ghetto”, “And his mama cries”, Energy young man”. We heard song for second time and then a third time. Surprisingly, when I heard song for third time with the help of a paper exercise, outcome was totally different than expected. It’s really…really beautiful song but a sad story. It’s really a heart touching song. Why mama cries? Why angry young man dies? What’s happened to a child?
So what’s the take-out from the story?
Grippingly, it’s all about developing understanding and listening ability. Use of phrases, adjectives, collocations and idioms makes the sentence more and more interesting.
The second part of the exercise was all about understanding and listening ability. We have been given different cards and asked to put n a sequence of song. This can be possible only when we heard song in a proper sequence. Our group was wrong on 4 places.
Immediately after a song, session went ahead with one another game. On four sides, four cards were pasted with different messages. We have to read it and gather at the proper place as per the sentence specification by Sanjay. Game was all about word stress. Some time back we learned as to how meaning changes because of giving stress on certain words. In the second part, several members (including me) misunderstood and went in to different direction. Game is a self explanatory as to how we misunderstand message because of stress and follow wrong direction. May be; because of misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
After a long break (I would say mini vacation), next session will be more energetic as it is followed by a play incorporating concepts, we learned in different sessions. We have a team of artists and now let’s see how we play:)
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