CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Our college gave us a great opportunity to attend a guest lecture on personality development and English speaking skills. The lecture was conducted by Mr. U. Thanesh. The session dealth with all the various requirement in ones personality from the way we present ourselves to the English we speak.

He started off with “Spoken English”, where he gave us a brief introduction to how English should be spoken to deliver a strong speech or make a strong impression. He started with basic grammar which is a very common error people commit. He gave a number of tips and tricks to avoid these mistakes and have a strong impression on people or our audience. He spoke about various topics such as fluency, pronunciation, grammar, specific use of words, language.

Starting of with fluency, he told us how important fluency can be while delivering a speech and a bit of an error can cause nervousness within self and give bad impressions to the people listening to you. Then he moved on to pronunciation which includes the way we spell a word. Due to the different country barriers, there are different ways of pronunciation, though there are a set of ways of pronunciating words. Then moving on to specific use of words, where he mentions words can be used in different ways to form a better sentence to give a impactful speech , for example when one asks how was the movie, instead of replying “it was good”, it could be replaced by “it was spectacular”. This minor yet a strong change gives a stronger effect to the meaning of the sentence.
Now coming to the most important point, language. Language is to be first learnt to use all the above key points. This can be achieved in various ways such as reading books, watching movies, writing, etc. By following all of the above point’s one can make their presentation very impactful.

After a lecture on “Spoken English”, he moved on to a topic which is important to every person in today’s generation which is “Personality Development”.

Here he dealth with a number of aspects required to give a confidence presentation. To engineering students, this helped us to give better interviews for our placements, jobs, future presentations, etc. He gave us ways to portray ourselves in a beautiful manner which would make our audience and people around like us.

The main topics he mentioned to improve one’s personality was body language, eye contact, and the 4 Q’s.

Body language is the way one shows his/herself to the audience or people around to give a good impression. This is done by a number of techniques such as gestures, standing straight without knees bent, use of complete stage, etc.

Coming to eye contact, it reveals all the secrets if a person is lying or is confident. For example, when a person is telling a lie, he always tries to avoid eye contact to avoid getting caught. Thus eye contact is very important to make person front of you to believe you in any circumstances.

Coming to the 4Q’s, it includes – Physical quotient, intelligent quotient, spiritual quotient and emotional quotient. When one has achieved in gathering all these, his personality is pretty much perfect and give a great presentation. Sir made the session interesting and very lively with jokes, videos, to keep everyone  attentive and interested.

I would like to thank our EEE department of New Horizon College of Engineering for giving us this wonderful opportunity to attend this wonderful session which was not only extremely education but also entertaining as well as a great help for our future. Also a sincere and grateful thanks to Mr. Danish sir was giving us his precious time to share this knowledge.