As we got to know that we have to take an action. So I personal took the action to teach English and gave importance of English to the underprivileged students. I went to a school which was a government school. This school was just started a year ago. Me and my sister planed that we will gave them the story books to read on.
Our goal
- We woulds try our best and teach them the basic of English and gave them the importance of it. We want them to learn English and make different in the world.
- We would try and communicator and be confident to speak in front of them. We would also be open-minded and not laugh at them.
- We would try and make them engaged in the work. We would try making them fun in the work that they do.
My plan at the first was to collect money for the books. I got an idea that we would collect newspaper from everyone's house and gave it to to the newspaper man and he gave us money. Next when got a lot of money I mixed it with the money that I have collected money in my piggy bank. After that I counted all the money together and calculated the money. I got the money in total as 1500 rupees. After that me and my dad went to a work shop where we got many books for the children These books were not difficult for them. It was easy and thin books but it had few difficult words too.
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Then me and sister both together thought of many fun activities. Unfortunately, we got less time to do it. But still we took few interesting activities. We took quiz and took few grammar activities like missing words, missing letters and drawing new cover page. After that we thought that we would make cheats and wrote the missing letters so that they would read the book and do the activities too. Next we framed questions on the books so that we would know how much they have read.
The Plans in school
On the first day when we want to the school. We want to the school for permission I talked about myself and about school. I also talked about that why am I here, my action and how it is useful for them. After few minutes the principal and all teachers said yes. They gave us the time of 30 minutes and gave us grade 2 & 3 to teach.
The next day we want back to the same school. The principal took us to the class which I am going to teach to. The class was upstairs. We walked up and saw a beautiful classroom which was where I was going to teach. The students of the class looked very smart and were ready for to read. I started up with my introduction and I said them about action too. Then I started with my work. The teacher divided the students in 6 groups. I gave each group a book to read. I want in each group one by one. Everyone got a turn to read and everyone got a turn to do the missing letter activity. They read the book not in fluent English but they knew how to read the book. In the end of the book I asked them questions from the book. One of boy Jai, he was very smart he gave all the questions correct. He was very happy that all his questions were right. I was very glad that he gave all the questions right, I just wanted to hug him. In the end I gave all the books as a gift to the students. I gave them the books so that they can learn from it and do more activities from the books and understand English and use it in their real life.
Challenges
The main challenge that I faced was the language. Mainly the students knew Telugu and the sad part is that I don't even the A of Telugu. It was difficult to communicate with them but my dad and the class teacher helped to communicate. But few students knew Hindi which was good.
