New Innovative Comp entancy based Activities ( NEP Alligned )
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.
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.