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L'importance des langues Kalakaar Mathemagic DAISMO
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Maintenant, de plus en plus de gens ne parlent que anglais. Il est Kalakaar at DAIS has been an ongoing CAS project for This year, our CAS project team, Mathemagic, worked towards hosting our school's
dommage que les jeunes ne considèrent plus apprendre les langues several years; this year, we decided to take forward the popular math Olympiad known as DAISMO. This olympiad was to be conducted by our
étrangères comme important. Après avoir étudié le français legacy. The Kalakaar CAS Project aimed to promote a team on our school's proctoring platform, exam.net, with invigilation conducted
pendant sept ans, je pense que je comprends les avantages variety of performing as well as visual art forms by through meetings on Microsoft Teams.
d'apprendre ces langues et je vais les partager ici. conducting workshops for participants to attend, with a After having formed our team, we realized that all of us had common interests in
Les langues et la mondialisation final showcase at the end. The project aimed to collect Mathematics and thus hosting an Olympiad would be an enjoyable experience. To this
funds for NGOs, and this year we chose to raise funds for
Tout d'abord, le monde d'aujourd'hui est très globalisé. Grâce aux end, we decided to build on the Olympiad launched last year and host it once again to
technologies, nous pouvons communiquer avec les gens autour du The Apprentice Project. boost its prestige. At the same time, we would be able to make a difference to society as
monde. Apprendre le français nous permet de parler avec plus de The Apprentice Project, also known as TAP, is an NGO that the funds we would collect from registration fees would go to the AngelXpress
gens, y compris les francophones dans beaucoup de pays comme works primarily with school children of daily wage workers Foundation, a NGO specializing in improving education for underprivileged children.
l'Afrique et le Canada. En plus, les télés et les films sont plus where trained volunteers work with the students on Indeed, this is a sector in which our country is yet to see enough advancement, and so we
mondialisés, avec les films non anglais comme <<Parasite>> étant enhancing their skills in visual and performing arts, among were all keen on making our contribution towards it.
reconnus. L'éducation est plus globale grâce à l'internet. other areas, while also fostering essential development
Dans ce monde, il est est peu probable qu'on ait du succès si on skills in them. They have supported over 3000 children till To effectively prepare for the event, we divided our work among different groups:
parle seulement une langue. date, and given the aim of the NGO, we felt that TAP 1. Tech – this entailed setting up the website along with our payment system, which was
would be the most appropriate NGO in line with the critical to ensuring registrations could be done efficiently. They also handled technical
Variété de points de vue
mission of Kalakaar 2021. logistics and worked on setting up the video conferencing system for the event.
Bien qu'on ne comprenne pas comment penser exactement comme
quelqu'un d'autre, apprendre une autre langue nous donne The first workshop we conducted was the Bottle Painting 2. Communications involved the members responsible for handling the official email id and communicating with participants and
l'occasion d'apprendre d'une culture et de voir le monde d'un Workshop, hosted by Amruta Pasupuleti, a skilled artist teachers alike. In this capacity, they spread information regarding our Olympiad by coordinating with our school's management and
nouveau point de vue. Il faut qu'on ait un esprit ouvert et un point who specialises in mandalas, warli, bottle painting, dealt with issues encountered by potential participants.
de vue bienveillant envers les autres. De plus, aprendre une nouvelle charcoal sketches and several other interesting art forms. 3. Paper-setting involved deciding the format of the question papers, creating the questions and the mark schemes, and typing
langue nous donne un nouveau moyen de voir la langue. L'écrivain The webinar provided participants with not only a learning everything on a professional software before the exam.
Geoffrey Willans a dit qu'on doit savoir deux langues au moins pour platform for a new art form but also a platform for them to
comprendre une langue. Moi, j'ai vraiment compris l'anglais share their artistic inspirations and techniques. The second The Olympiad consisted of two categories for our participants with Grades 8-10 being in the first and Grades 11-12 making up the
seulement après avoir commencé à étudier le français. workshop we hosted was the Theatre Workshop taught by second. For each category, we employed a completely different level of difficulty to ensure that our questions were consistent with the
Vidhi Mehra, a talented theatre facilitator who is a part of skill level of students in each grade. Our questions were vetted by our supervisor and our school's Mathematics Department, and were
Pourquoi est-ce important?
several production teams. The workshop was extremely designed in a way that would encourage critical thinking and problem solving.
Quelques jeunes pensent qu'il est plus important d'apprendre les fun and energetic, with participants experimenting with
matières comme les mathématiques, au lieu d'apprendre une their expressions and body language to respond to Our event was held on 24th October, and went off very smoothly, with us being able to carefully monitor all our participants. All in all,
deuxième langue, pour dévélopper l'esprit. Comme la pièce a deux situations. Our third and final workshop was a doodling this was a truly delightful experience for all of us and it was pleasing to see that we were able to raise a significant sum of money for
côtés, je pense que ce n'est pas vrai. Beaucoup d'études ont montré workshop taught by the talented artist Shruti Kapoor, donation to the AngelXpress Foundation.
que les enfants qui parlent plus de langues ont le cerveau plus where participants learnt the beauty of coming up with “When 'I' becomes 'we',
développé. Si j'avais pu apprendre plus de langues comme enfant, their own authentic intricate designs and learned illness becomes wellness.”
j'aurais été un meilleur étudiant. Pour les gens qui apprennent techniques for doodling. The final showcase was held on Nishkka Thakkar
plusieurs langues comme enfant, c'est une cerise sur le gâteau parce 7th November and saw an exciting and broad range of Senior Fitizens
qu'il est plus facile d'apprendre une langue pendant l'enfance.
performances by several artists, be it dancers, singers or
En conclusion, pour toutes ces raisons, je crois que tout le monde a even those performing spoken word. The three workshops
besoin d'être multilingue. Quand j'ai décidé d'étudier le français il y a sept and the showcase were a huge success, and we at Kalakaar COVID-19 has impacted people worldwide due to the resultant social दो ती - कल, आज और कल
ans, je n'étais pas sûr. Mais maintenant, je suis sûr que j'ai bien choisi. were able to raise over Rs. 25,000 for The Apprentice distancing norms and lockdown rules. All of us in our CAS group were
Vansh Tibrewal Project! interested in sports and fitness, and therefore we aimed to use our passion “पड़ क डा लय पर उस चढ़ाया,
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the pandemic. We identified senior citizens as a group that was heavily आम क गट लया उसस तड़वाया।
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प रवार “To me, social affected during this period, as safety measures meant that their ability to ख़शी-ख़शी बतायी सं या मँह मीठा कर बठ ै े
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well-being means indulge in physical activity and exercise was severely hampered. Therefore, लड़कपन का यह वाब दख हम रहत” े
जीवन क इस ज टल माग पर, मामाजी ने सनाई अपने यवाव था क कहानी।

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having meaningful we set out to conduct weekly fitness sessions with a group of senior
कोई भी संकट य न आए। relationships with citizens to ensure that they avoided a sedentary lifestyle and maintained

प रवार क साहचय स, े others that make their fitness during these difficult times. Our group devised a list of चार तरफ़ तकनीक का चार
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एक स एक कम दर हो जाए। you feel suitable exercises for a geriatric group and recorded a video that included ब च को हो गया ह मोबाइल स यार।
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understood and step-by-step instructions about performing the exercises. क यटर अब मन य का एकलौता म
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valued and खो रह ह हम दो ती क फ़तर।
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या काय थल म मल पदो न त। completely at ease. We conducted five sessions on Zoom with around fifteen participants. We सामािजक मी डया क ज़ंजीर म फ ँ सकर

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प रजन क साथ आनंद बाटकर, I think social well- displayed our workout video on the screen during the session and helped पछताएँग – य ँ नह ं कया यास मड़कर?
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वह आनंद हो जाती ह दोगनी। being is only the participants with any questions regarding the exercises and routine.
possible when a These sessions were highly enriching, and it was amazing to see the कहाँ ह वो स चा साथी
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balance is reached enthusiasm and energy of the senior citizens. Despite their age, they were जो ह जीवन माग पर सहया ी?
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प रजन म अलगाव बढ़ रहा ह। ै between spending willing to learn and push their limits in an effort to improve their fitness.
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पहल जो एक अटट समह था, quality time with Their drive and commitment was a source of inspiration to all of us. Our ज़माना बदला – पर मानव मानव रहा
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yourself.” चँ क आए दन कौन दगा सहारा
भोजन क मज़ क चहचहाहट, i n i t i a t i v e w a s a जब हम हो बढ़, दबल और पथहारा?
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Tisha Kumar m e m o r a b l e
आज बस एक स नाटा ह। ै
experience, and we
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घर क बज़ग क म कान क कारण, मरा ममरा भाई बगीचा म घमता
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व डयो खल क द नया म खो गए है। firmly believe that we कभी हँसता, कभी रोता।
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achieved our initial या वह दख पाएगा इस लोक क क मयाँ को?
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इस बदलाव क लहर को बस हम ह रोक सकत ह, ै goal of making a
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आज क टट प रवार को बस हम ह जोड़ सकत ह। ै positive impact on उसक वग म या होगा भगवान जाने
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अ तम घड़ी अब आ गयी ह, ै the health and fitness बस यह उ मद ह क वह अपने स चे म को पहचाने।
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प रवतन लाने क ण हमस दर भागत जा रह ह। ै o f t h e g e r i a t r i c जश भा टया
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population near us.
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