"True enjoyment comes from
activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
- Wilhelm
Von Humboldt
Daily Schedule Committee Report (link for video)
"Activity of mind" is the
most important aspect to grow oneself. To remain only physically healthy is not
enough. Our mind also should have a kind of courage, intelligence and creativity.
And this Daily Schedule gives us the opportunity to develop all these virtues.
Here, at Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University, we start our day with Daily Schedule. When I was a fresher here, I
just wondered what was this happening but my seniors and classmates helped me
in understanding it. This is a platform where many activities take place like News
Reading, Vocabulary Drill, Book Report, Poetry Recitation, etc. Daily Schedule
starts with University song and then Prayer and at last we sing our National
Song. This activity gives us energy and without it, we feel like our day is
incomplete. The entire year, we keep a record and in the end, we make a chart
of student's participation. Daily Schedule committee also helped me a lot in
preparing the final report. In the end of Daily Schedule, head of the
Department of English, Dr. Dilip Barad gives comments and counterpoints which is
very useful for us to improve ourselves. Students bring their creativity like
the poems they write or any book or movie review. It seems interesting as each
and every column gives students a precious chance to rise. By participating in
Daily Schedule, the non-native speakers of English can improve their English.
This platform helped us a lot during the Global Conference of English Studies.
which was held recently in Vallabh Vidyanagar. There we could present the paper
very confidently. We learnt to present our arguments, thoughts and content in
front of knowledgeable audience. Here we get ample opportunities to enhance our
speaking skills as well as listening skills. Earlier, I had not done anchoring
anywhere, but here, I got a chance to do it and helped me to wipe away my stage
fear. In Daily Schedule, we celebrate different days like Republic Day, Hindi
Day, International mother Language Day etc. Prayer is also held in different
languages like English, Hindi, Gujarati and Sanskrit. Encouragement was also
needed during most of the time as many a times, there were less number of
participants. The most popular columns were Thought for the day, Personal
Presentation, etc and the columns which suffered were like of News Reading, General
knowledge. Sometimes, all the columns were flooded with participants. Many
students have talent but they hesitate to show it and through this platform,
their hidden talent comes out. So to conclude, I would like to say that
speaking is a productive skill and equivalent to writing skill. There are
people who know English but there are people who can speak accurate English.
This activity helps to enhance future teacher's communicative language learning
skills. I wish that new batches of Department of English will carry on this
tradition of Daily Schedule and we expect more number of unsung heroes to come up
and perform daily in Daily Schedule as Paulo
Coelho says-
"One day, you will wake up and
there won't be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. So, do it
now."
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