Objective:
To develop critical thinking, curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills among students through engaging, innovative activities in the English classroom.
This list supports experiential learning as per the NEP 2020 framework, ensuring students learn language in a joyful, meaningful, and competency-based way.
🟦 1. Critical ( चिकित्सक ) Thinking Activities (21 Tasks)
These activities sharpen analytical skills and help students reflect deeply:
- Debate on moral or social issues
- Role-play based on story scenes
- Analyze decisions made by characters
- Justify actions of literary figures
- Compare and interpret two poems
- Group discussions on poem themes
- Express various viewpoints on a topic
- “What if…” creative story writing
- Think-Pair-Share on life values
- Open-ended comprehension questions
- Rewrite the ending of a story
- Identify bias in a narrative
- Evaluate current news or editorials
- Sort facts vs. opinions
- Judge a character’s choices
- Write arguments for/against a theme
- Ethical dilemma resolution
- Speech analysis from famous leaders
- Form questions based on the text
- Identify cause-effect patterns
- Interpret metaphors and symbols
🟦 2. Curiosity ( कुतुहल ) Building Activities (21 Tasks)
These inspire exploration, prediction, and questioning:
- Predict endings of mystery stories
- Picture-based story creation
- Watch silent clips, guess the plot
- Ask “why” after poem reading
- Read about foreign customs (UK, USA)
- “Did You Know?” word wall activity
- Idiom collection and interpretation
- Audio stories with missing parts
- Guess titles based on clues
- Explore word origins (etymology)
- Grammar riddles
- Analyze famous quotes
- Author interviews by students
- Guess meanings from context
- Match poem lines to real life
- Dictionary word hunts
- Rearranged story challenge
- Hidden endings in stories
- Phrase-match games
- Solve literary puzzles
- Quiz on weird but true English facts
🟦 3. Creativity ( सर्जनशिलता ) Building Activities (21 Tasks)
These tap into imagination and expression:
- Story using 5 random words
- Acrostic poetry (e.g. HOPE, DREAM)
- Rewrite classic poems in modern style
- Comic strips based on textbook stories
- Dialogue between objects (e.g. pen & book)
- Create original proverbs
- Poster-making (environment, equality)
- Slogan writing on social issues
- Ad-making (imaginary product)
- Retell a story from another POV
- Riddle creation using wordplay
- Vocabulary collage
- Invent and describe imaginary animals
- Design a book cover & write its blurb
- Make up a new word and define it
- Translate folk tales to English
- Poem with rhyming word pairs
- Sequence a story using illustrations
- Act out a poem dramatically
- Write short moral stories
- Create a superhero with background
🟦 4. Problem (पृच्छा आधारित )Solving Activities (21 Tasks)
Activities that promote language-based logical thinking:
- Grammar error correction race
- Find and fix 10 grammar mistakes
- Reorder jumbled sentences
- Fill-in-the-blank storytelling
- Resolve a conflict from a story
- Group discuss real-life classroom problems
- Punctuation correction exercises
- Suggest better endings for characters
- Rearranged paragraphs into order
- Spot fake news headlines
- Q&A creation from passages
- Solve grammar-based clues
- Vocabulary maze using synonyms
- Cause-effect chain building
- Create anti-bullying guide
- Riddle quiz (team-based)
- Real-life problem-solving dialogues
- Build a story from 4 items
- Link events to their causes
- Give advice to fictional characters
- Solve poem interpretation puzzles
🟦 5. Bagless School ( दप्तरविणा शाळा ) Activities in English (11 Fun Tasks)
Fun, physical, and vocal activities for joyful learning:
- Storytelling through dramatization
- Poem recitation with acting
- Word chain game (vocabulary building)
- Grammar relay race
- Tongue twister competitions
- Picture description without text
- Singing English rhymes or songs
- Chalkboard storytelling
- Classroom Spell Bee
- Speaking circle – one sentence each
- Role-play of daily conversations
SQUAFF RELATED ANALYSIS NEP BASED
Objective:
To develop critical thinking, curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills among students through engaging, innovative activities in the English classroom.
This list supports experiential learning as per the NEP 2020 framework, ensuring students learn language in a joyful, meaningful, and competency-based way.
| Curiosity Building Activities Feature | Reflected in Activities |
|---|---|
| Competency-Based Learning | Critical thinking, analysis, real-life use of language |
| Experiential & Joyful Learning | Games, drama, puzzles, storytelling |
| Multidisciplinary Integration | Language with value education, art, and reasoning |
| Inclusive & Active Participation | Group work, peer interaction, creative input |
| Holistic Development | Cover cognitive , emotional , social and creative domains. |