Second week of CHORD school programme

Friends,
The blog is continuation of writ up on our visits to CHORD school.
Last Saturday was the second visit to CHORD school. We were happy that students remembered our names. Tejo, one of the volunteers narrated one story about "When do we stop questioning". It was interesting. The moral of the story was that we should ask questions at appropriate time otherwise we may miss the actual information. He asked students about the moral of the story. Many were able to answer but in Telugu..We asked them to tell the same in English. With few attempts many were successful. Interesting part was that one of the students came to tell the story.

The second story was about "Think out of box- Lateral Thinking". It was about money lender and farmer's daughter. This story goes like this. A farmer was in debt to a crooked moneylender who was fond of farmer's daughter. One day he went to farmer with officials, expressed his desire to marry her and he proposed that he would cancel the debt for his daughter. But farmer rejected the offer and pleaded for more time to pay the debt. Then moneylender came up with another option. He would take two pebble one white and another black. If farmer's daughter picks white one then she would not have to marry him and farmer will get time to pay the debt and if she picks black one then she has to marry him and the father would have all the time he needed to pay off his debts at a favorable rate. Then money lender went to pick the pebbles from the road with number of black and white pebbles. Farmer's daughter noticed that he picked up two pebbles rather than one white and one black. He asked her to pick one pebble. She decided instantly and as she drew the stone out she fumbled it and quickly dropped it. The stone mixed with those on the road and was lost among all the others before anyone could identify it. “Oh dear!” she exclaimed. “How clumsy of me!” Then she explained. “But it is ok,” she said calmly. “We can simply look in the bag and see which color pebble remains inside. Then we will know the color of the pebble I had picked.” The officials looked in the bag and saw the black pebble. Therefore, they assumed, the farmer’s daughter had picked the white pebble which meant she did not have to marry the moneylender and her father would have more time to repay his debts at favorable rates.
This story was regarding "Lateral Thinking".

Tejo gave one puzzle to make them think out of box. The puzzle is that one basket contains six eggs. Six eggs have to be distributed to six persons. But condition is that one egg should remain in the basket. We asked students to solve it. One boy came up with answer but had difficulty in telling that in English. We helped him to speak up in English. Few students volunteered to tell the answer in English. We made most of them to tell the answer. We were able to cover most of the students.
Just after the break, we played video "Mind your language" which is fun video on communication.

Next Praveen gave small presentation on Aeronautics. He has chosen this topic because in first session, couple of boys expressed their interest in Aeronautical Engineering as their career option. The presentation went well. They asked doubts and Praveen clarified most of them.

In the meantime Rajesh, Kranthi and myself asked three students (one girl and two boys) to perform skit which is in the video we played for them. We rehearsed the skit in separate room during presentation. After rehearsal three of them performed the skit in front of their friends. It was awesome. We had more fun than we had when we watched the video.

These were the activities of second week. Next week we are planning to take up grammar classes, however, with activities. Will come up with more posts on the coming sessions.