Reading, writing, listening and speaking are the four most important skills. We came to know 5th skill as “Culture”. I surprised to learn as to how culture can be a skill? But yes…it can be.
Office-3- A funny video! When we saw Office-1, I remember that I watched it for nearly 5 to 6 times to understand words and sentences. It was too difficult to catch. Office-3 found somewhat easy-might be- because of practice.
Video was more or less on culture. We say US culture in “Office-III”. Not always it’s true abut somewhat. Drinking, free office environment, proposing someone, hugging, kissing are common there but against culture over here. This is the reason that when we see someone doing such things, we get surprised. On the contrary in their eyes we feel like as orthodox. This is somewhat about cultural difference. We are more on family oriented where as they are cultural oriented. Right from dressing to lifestyle, communication, everywhere we notice major changes.
The theme behind office-III video was to show cultural difference which is also one of the important elements to know over and above reading, writing, listening and speaking ability. If one has all the four abilities but not aware with 5th; then it may pose difficulty. Sanjay cited very good example with which I fully agree. During the course of conversation, it is observed that people in US, focus on pithy discussion rather than giving explanation like we do!
We were inquisitive to see “One Play” by different teams. Of course we’re not real artist but did best effort to present crux in an effective manner. Leaving weaknesses aside (like expressions, reading dialogues from material, minor mistakes) I would say that effort was made to use collocations, speech, language, dialogue delivery and so on. I consider drama exercise as a platform to apply whatever we learned from different exercise-right from presentation till grammar. I enjoyed this session!!!
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