English Language Course

I was feeling very strong desire to learn English these days and fortunately I received an email from Techlogix training department that they are going to offer English language training course to some selected employees and by chance I was also selected to take that course.

My First Class

I was very excited about my first class with a lot of questions in my mind about my first class like who will be the instructor? How he will be teaching us to improve our English speaking and writing skills? At the end of class will we be able to speak English fluently and write it in an effective way to communicate it? and many other similar questions.

Fortunately we found a very good instructor Mr. Shahid J. Ismail with the experience of about 20 years in various countries like UK, Scotland, Iran and Turkey etc. He taught us that to learn English or any other language whether Urdu or Punjabi we need to follow same procedure which a baby follows to learn it. Baby listens to his parent then start from very simple words like “mummy” or “papa” and then move to bit difficult words like “food” or “milk” and then to sentences like “I am hungry” and “I need milk” etc. similarly to learn any language we need to start from very simple words and then move to complex sentences. It is a gradual process and takes more time rather than effort. I order to improve our speaking skill we need to have a good amount of listening as an input to our brain and in order to have good writing ability we need to read as much as possible. He suggested us to listen English either in the form of TV channels or English movies for at least two hour a day and read some story books or novels as well.

After about 30 to 40 min lecture instructor asked us to come on stage one by one and introduce yourself and then pick up a card randomly from a set of cards and speak on the topic mentioned on the card. This was very interesting session and we enjoyed it a lot by hearing a wide variety of introductions. The most interesting part of this session was related to the way people were responding to the topic which their fate brought to them. Surly no one was prepared about the topic and it was very difficult to speak even a couple of sentences. This was also the case with me. My topic was “Favorite Season” and my response was “I like rainy season. Usually in month of July. A hot day….rain comes…..we move out……take bath in rain…..and that’s it. ”. I realized that I was not able to find words and make sentences to explain the topic. That was also the case with most of the students and that was what needs to be improved. At the end of the class we were given an assignment to write a report of at least 150 words by the next class. I hope to see some strange and also interesting reports in the next class.

At the end I would like to thank one of my very good friends who inspired me and motivated me to write my first blog post, otherwise I wouldn’t have done such an effort.