Computer Science Department is organising the annual national conference and is very busy with preparations for it in the midst of TEQIP audit visits and meetings. A team of comperes came to the department seeking help in preparing themselves to be good MCs for the inaugural ceremony.
They need training in modulation, clarity and practised scripts. We do have some very good students, good at communication and at expressing themselves quite fluently. However, they let loose some awful mistakes when they say something spontaneously...we've heard them say, 'And now we invite our princiapl to give away the speech', or something like that and then the English teachers squirm a bit.
I always believe that when acting as master of ceremony, something that I love doing, there must be no mistakes. I still have scripts before me which I follow to the T... sometimes, I do adlib, but that comes with the confidence of maybe many many MC jobs...I would love to have my children have that technique with them when they take up an MCs job at formal functions. Of course, I love listening to them in informal contexts, such as GECOFEST or other fun days, when they comeout with some youthful and enthusiastic comments.
I love it that whenever there is an important department function, children descend in hordes and start cleaning up the space before the department and even come up with some instant plants and green cover. :))