Happy New Year to all Lingua Franca members!
First of all, I would like to welcome all the first year students into Lingua Franca. I sincerely hope you enjoy your membership in the society and have a good time. As the title reads, I’ve dropped in here to talk about the upcoming events this semester.
Vocab Workshops
Ritika and Shubhangi set the ball rolling by conducting the first vocabulary workshop of the semester.. Sadly, I couldn’t make it that day. I am sure they did a wonderful job. More vocabulary workshops are lined up for the coming weeks.
Basic Grammar Workshops
Meghna has been consistent with her workshops on Basic Grammar and public speaking cum confidence building workshops. Although participation has been average, we’ve seen a loyal set of audience to these sessions.
Movie Club
After having failed to kick-start the movie club twice, we’ve decided enough is enough! Shashank and Abhishek along with some more second year fellows have been given the responsibility. We have received permission to screen movies in the seminar hall twice a month, on alternate Saturdays. Over this one semester we hope to show a series of quality English flicks. We encourage members to come up with suggestions. Yes, you heard that right! We will try to accommodate your requests. Write in your suggestions as comments to this post.
Boys’ Hostel Book Club
Vivek has been working hard on this. We have prepared an extensive list of over 200 books (both fiction and non-fiction), which has been forwarded to the Principal via the Humanities Dept. Members may note that we already have all the necessary permissions in place. Once this list is approved, the college authorities will procure the books and hand them over to Lingua Franca. Hostlers will then be able to issue these books just like they do from the library.
Other Events
We are thinking of interesting Debating formats like Parliamentary Debate, and other innovative forms of public speaking competitions. Other events like Group Discussions and Extempore are also lined up. With the Annual Fest - Zealicon also coming up in March, it looks like an exciting semester ahead.
