The Speaker’s Club:
This club focuses on all kinds of speaking events, debating, extempore speaking, elocution and jamming. The latter being an event in which Sanskrithian used to dominate. Other activities on the cards are in – house competitions and presentations with experienced jammers.
We truly believe that making public speaking fun is one of the things that are going to take an average public speaker and give them enough practice to turn them into a good or great public speaker.
Activity 1: My Friend’s Fictional Life
In this activity, what we do is we get up in front of people (we can do it home by ourself as well) and We take one of our friends and we introduce them. However, instead of introducing them in the normal way we make up a fictional life for them.
So we say, hi this is Anil, and he actually moonlights as a alto saxophonist for the underground mafia. And we talk about his life, whatever it may be.
So this is fun because it makes us creative, it’s very easy to think of these things on the spot and just roll with it. It’s generally pretty funny as well.
Activity 2: Impromtu Game
We basically just get up in front of people and somebody gives us something impromptu to run with.
It might be a topic, it might be a sentence or it might just be a single word or anything like that. But generally we run with just a certain topic.
For example: They need to talk about climate change or they need to talk about what makes a great teacher, or they need to talk about social media changes or whatever. So that the impromptu game.
Activity 3: Continuous Story
This is best done with a group of people. Each person gets up and might speak for anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute and they start telling a story.
And when their time is up, the next person has to get up and they have to continue the story.
So, obviously each person doesn’t know what the person before them is going to say and so they have to continue the story.
The goal of this is to make the story make sense. This game helps people engage in listening and learn to be creative enough to make the story continue on and make sense.
Activity 4: Action Story
This can be done in 2 ways.
- A) We tell a story that has a whole great of actions in it and as a speaker we have to do these actions ourselves while speaking.
- B) Or the audience has to do the actions themselves while the speaker is giving their speech.
So we could say; I did a big stretch when I woke up in the morning. And everybody has to stretch. And then you say, I put on my hat, and everybody has to do the actions in line with that.
Activity 5: Our students are probably already familiar with the rules of Bingo. Simply get five numbers in a line on a chart. We can use this as a basis for another get to know the game. Work with your class to compile a list experiences that a person might have had. For example, gone scuba diving, made a birthday cake and eaten sushi would all be good experiences. Work together on the list until we have about 30-40 different experiences. (We can also compile the list on our own if we prefer.) Then, give students a blank bingo board (a 5×5 chart) and have them write one experience in each of the boxes. On our word, students mingle and talk to each other to find someone with each experience they have chosen. If a student finds someone who, for example, has gone scuba diving, that student signs the square where your student wrote it on his Bingo board. The first person to get five in a row yells, “Bingo!” Another variation is to arrange students speed dating style: two rows of chairs facing each other. Each pair then gets two minutes to talk with each other. When time is up, the students in one row shift one chair to the right. The game is over once someone has gotten five spaces in a row on their bingo board.
Faculty Coordinators: Ms. Madhurima (Assist. Prof) and Ms. Madhavi (Assist. Prof) – Department of English
OBJECTIVES:
- To enable the students to improve their communication skills
- To bring out hidden potential
- To gain confidence
- To lose the stage fear
- Provides a fun way of learning