SpellBee International-2023-24

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by devakanni s17 views·Updated Jul 10, 2023

A talk by Devakanni S - CEO

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  1. greets you all.
  2. Spy
  3. International's Strategic Language Enhancement programme
  4. brings you a magical wand
  5. to make your life
  6. progressive,
  7. active
  8. and interesting.
  9. How do you think a language development programme brings you all these things?
  10. I definitely see people getting happiness because of this programme.
  11. They get freedom because of this programme.
  12. How is it possible?
  13. I imagine a classroom
  14. where
  15. students are involved into an organised to study.
  16. When they are looking into the book,
  17. they are seeing so many words which they are not able to understand.
  18. Some of the words are tough.
  19. Some words are tough to pronounce. Some words are tough to understand.
  20. Some words are tough to apply in a sentence when they are articulating
  21. when, such as the condition
  22. how easy will be the study.
  23. They'll find it difficult
  24. to go past a page
  25. and after reading it's difficult to memorise.
  26. And once they memorise it when they want to articulate it in their own way
  27. in their own language, they are finding it difficult to write the examination.
  28. This is what is happening
  29. in 90% of the students.
  30. The solution is we need to go for a well researched, organised age,
  31. appropriate content,
  32. which makes you confident
  33. in 12 years of time.
  34. If you are studying language in any school, you should become a scholar
  35. because you would have attended at least around 2000 classes in that.
  36. But sometimes it's not happening. Actually, many times it's not happening.
  37. Why is it so?
  38. We have done an extensive research
  39. to make that not to happen,
  40. but to see to that each and every child becomes a scholar in English.
  41. This is the route in which they travel.
  42. We focus on lexicon. To start with the word bank,
  43. we take age appropriate words.
  44. We have taken the top most 10,000 words, and then we have given it
  45. class by class, grade by grade,
  46. 1000 per standard, according to their age.
  47. It's a national and international research,
  48. and not only the words we are not giving the words just as words,
  49. because you need to understand
  50. the meaning of the word.
  51. Before we go to the meaning.
  52. We need to understand the pronunciation of the word.
  53. Just, for example,
  54. see the following words.
  55. We are saying words like
  56. Clement
  57. cliche.
  58. I guess some of you would have started learning phonetics. Some of you must be good,
  59. but many of you must be struggling with this.
  60. Why phonetics
  61. see these words?
  62. There are so many words are starting with
  63. CO.
  64. But then see the phonetic symbols,
  65. the pronunciation
  66. of each and every word differs.
  67. The first is
  68. our
  69. sound is missing,
  70. and that's why there's no R there,
  71. cause
  72. the second C was
  73. Oh,
  74. that sound.
  75. It said the
  76. and the next is
  77. both the same here
  78. and then see the next word. COIFFED. It's not.
  79. It's
  80. sound is coming here as
  81. and the last word.
  82. We most of the time pronounce it well
  83. collector.
  84. But then the previous word, the last but one word.
  85. It's not collateral.
  86. It's collateral,
  87. isn't it? Only when you see the phonetic symbol both are same. You just see that
  88. in collector
  89. and then collateral.
  90. So you see the pronunciation
  91. being the same
  92. like this for each and every word.
  93. In SPE
  94. book, you will see phonetic symbols.
  95. So with that you'll be able to learn the words.
  96. You'll be able to see the pronunciation of each and every word,
  97. and then from state level onwards, you'll be having
  98. more detailed study on phonetics also,
  99. so you will be tested with each and every phone.
  100. And all these things are not studies in paragraphs and pages.
  101. These are all just exercises.
  102. And then you will be learning about root word
  103. morphology.
  104. So what do you mean by root words here,
  105. What do you learn here?
  106. So root words are a route
  107. to amaze
  108. great amount of words.
  109. So what kind of roots we are talking about?
  110. English words have come from many other languages as root words
  111. like it has taken root from French words nearly 20%
  112. and from Germanic words, another 20% and
  113. not
  114. and Roman words like Greek and Latin.
  115. So Latin words are also there.
  116. So like this
  117. roots have come from different languages.
  118. That's why sometimes pronunciation of CH in a word, is
  119. as in mechanic
  120. CH, uh, in a word, is,
  121. as in child,
  122. CH is,
  123. as in
  124. chef
  125. Champagne,
  126. depending upon which language it has come from.
  127. So, mechanic
  128. a
  129. chemist, these are all,
  130. uh, Greek derived words
  131. and words like,
  132. uh,
  133. Children
  134. child chanting. These are all old Saxon words. Mostly it will be like that.
  135. So Anglo Saxon words which has come in this will be pronounced old English as.
  136. And if they are,
  137. mostly 99%. It'll be French derived words like champagne
  138. and the
  139. chef
  140. like that.
  141. So isn't it interesting?
  142. So these are all 100 root words. Act as keys to unlock more than one lack words.
  143. So what kind of root words are we talking about? Simple root words like this.
  144. More than 3500 words ends with ER.
  145. What do you mean by ER?
  146. ER can be more as in the Latin root,
  147. so more sweet is sweeter. More clear is clearer.
  148. More bright is brighter, more thick, thicker, more thinness thinner.
  149. But it is not more teachers teacher, isn't it?
  150. So here it is. One Who are that wish
  151. ER OR A. Are all these roots one who are that way?
  152. That which divides this divider? Who one who manufacturers is manufacturer,
  153. doctor, engineer like that?
  154. Interesting, isn't it?
  155. And then
  156. it's there in 6500 words, in action of in Action of verifying his verification,
  157. clarifying his clarification.
  158. I'm just,
  159. uh, telling about only a few roots which are there in many words, like
  160. is in more than 1000 words full of venomous, venomous full of superstition.
  161. Superstitious,
  162. full of dangerous, dangerous, full of famous famous Is it not interesting?
  163. And then words like MENT.
  164. It's almost like a TANIANANIST like instrumentalist vocalist pianist.
  165. Why so many words are ending with I EST again one who, like beauty
  166. and Indian Jamaican one who a N, Is it not interesting?
  167. Yes, this helps you to get anchored.
  168. This is how this must be the meaning of this word.
  169. When a child goes to a dermatologist, he or she needs to think dumb
  170. plus logy. Plus is
  171. one who studied about skin related things. Is it not interesting?
  172. So I love this concept.
  173. We have done a research with a great amount of love in this subject,
  174. so that students will be able to
  175. learn it in a much interesting way
  176. and in a quick way, because by learning around,
  177. we have detailed here around 180 root words in all your books.
  178. So that takes you to more than two lap words.
  179. So that's a It's a shortcut, and any word you take like disease is not a disease.
  180. It's a this plus ease not at ease
  181. and remind the
  182. plus mind, plus
  183. uh,
  184. it's like 10 plus
  185. and then
  186. pending penned plus
  187. in
  188. so penned beans hanging so hanging thing
  189. pendent pendulum pending job Something like that.
  190. So you will love the subject when you start reading it.
  191. So we have brought a thing like experiencing
  192. the joy of learning and also our GK. Very interesting.
  193. We have given age appropriate books in your
  194. case. So whichever book you're supposed to study
  195. so like
  196. you will have a level by level content,
  197. and then in every level you keep progressing.
  198. First, you read about a lexicon like word bank and then the root words,
  199. and then inflexions like how one word becomes many other words.
  200. And then you from the second level onwards,
  201. you start learning the meaning of the words like
  202. you'll be chunking and learning
  203. like 300 words per level.
  204. You'll be learning the meaning also, So that's another interesting thing.
  205. In level one itself, you'll be learning syntax. Which sentence is right.
  206. Which sentence is wrong, so you just need to take it.
  207. But then we have given explanations on why it is right and why it is wrong.
  208. So you'll be going up
  209. but level by level 1234 in every year Inter School State National International
  210. And then you go to the next year and then you start completing.
  211. So, for example, grade one Children will get books like this,
  212. so they are getting all pink colour books.
  213. So Inter School State,
  214. national and international and international You get a hard bound book with, uh,
  215. all your words with 50% pictures.
  216. That is the most interesting thing.
  217. You can match the picture with the meanings. You also get meanings.
  218. And you also get other related words like how, uh, run becomes run, run,
  219. running for run for runner for runners
  220. and run, run!
  221. Run
  222. us to all these combinations You will see in
  223. the book along with the word so that you learn
  224. the family of the whole world and then you can furthermore develop also.
  225. So this is for Group Two. This is for Group three,
  226. and this is for, like, grade. These are all these are for grade four students.
  227. Maybe you can take it a step forward, so sometimes you'll find it very difficult to
  228. answer. Grade one books, even if you are in grade eight or nine. Grade one books.
  229. Also,
  230. it's very difficult to answer unless until you have gone through it thoroughly.
  231. And so this is for Grade six and Grade seven
  232. and then Grade eight,
  233. and the next level is for 9, 10, 11 students.
  234. Mostly, since these are people are very busy in their career,
  235. we have given words on carrier management we have in Grade nine books.
  236. We have detailed around
  237. 100 different carriers and their what is the explanation of
  238. those carriers and then words about their personality emotions.
  239. That helps them a lot.
  240. And then we have done the detailed work on phonetics. Also, we have done
  241. search on this.
  242. We have given the simple ways of learning phonetics
  243. with just one example of one with one picture,
  244. and also we have complex chart.
  245. And then we've given the top three words for each and every pronunciation
  246. in the phonetic chart, you can see it's free, Of course.
  247. Please go to our website WWW dot
  248. spell the international dot com
  249. Go and ask for phonetic chart. You can
  250. play it in your classrooms. Also,
  251. when I take chart, it's, uh, interacts an interactive tool click,
  252. and you can hear the sound of the symbol so you can learn
  253. it and then click the words you can listen to the sound.
  254. So this is a sound for, uh as it comes, and
  255. so the same thing for urban person. So this is for stir,
  256. so they will not do a mistake of reading this as stir
  257. or still stir.
  258. Right.
  259. And then So these are all like this ear
  260. ear hero. It's not hero Sylvia
  261. hero
  262. ear, ear.
  263. So here you may get a conclusion. Some of them may get a confusion when double O comes.
  264. Here it is.
  265. It's a short
  266. We also introduce you one word, at least which is most common.
  267. And then here the word examples are like, What if the sound comes in the,
  268. uh, initial position
  269. in the middle position
  270. and in the final position
  271. and different spelling uh,
  272. graphene combinations of spelling which gives the this
  273. particular sound So we are particular on that
  274. and then see how useful it is when words like this cook shot. You know who
  275. sound
  276. and then fooled
  277. That is long,
  278. right? Fooled, same double O.
  279. But then here it is
  280. cook as it comes in foot
  281. FOOFOODF
  282. GOOD good
  283. BLOOD blood.
  284. Ah, that sound blood
  285. DOOR dot
  286. door
  287. So four different sounds you are getting here.
  288. So the better thing is to learn things along with your phonetic chart.
  289. So this is spell
  290. And for nine years when you are continuing in spell,
  291. you have an
  292. wonderful spread of things. Whatever is there in
  293. accuracy part of English, which helps you in fluency.
  294. We do
  295. provide it as a curriculum. You learn till pragmatics you learn literary devices.
  296. You learn till pragmatics and many more things like comprehension,
  297. comprehension of a poem,
  298. comprehension of a dialogue, comprehension of a letter,
  299. comprehension of a product label and what is new this year?
  300. This year we have joined with
  301. human security for all project joined with them It's a project for was
  302. World Academy for Arts and Science.
  303. It's a organisation started by Albert Einstein in USA
  304. and
  305. we have launched this programme
  306. just to have a connection
  307. for the fluency programme of yours Like when you are writing something,
  308. why don't we simply rather than simply writing,
  309. Why don't we write for a national course cause or an international course?
  310. Now that you're going to give
  311. in the programme some speeches or you can record your speech and saying
  312. You can draw artwork and give these all this all
  313. will be given as assignments in the boot camps,
  314. so National Conference International Conferences Webinars will be arranged.
  315. So all this part of your fluency programme So this is very important this year.
  316. This is very new and you can participate
  317. not only just accuracy part and also fluency part
  318. and how this is all going to happen,
  319. how you're going to learn we have a coaching platform
  320. in that if you're joining us a one time programme
  321. like the fee, if you're joining through school, it will be only ₹4900.
  322. If we're going to join as a one time programme,
  323. then you have nearly 6 to 8 months of videos
  324. like 6 to 8 months of learning coaching platform access.
  325. You can learn it slowly along with us.
  326. All those people who have returned the books we have coached
  327. personally and page by page.
  328. Also, we have done for most of the content, and we have uploaded.
  329. You can just learn along with us.
  330. Otherwise, too,
  331. you can just come for one boot camp per level
  332. which goes on for nearly 2.5 hours grade by grade,
  333. you can see page by page along with us, so that's the best thing.
  334. So what else? The final examination is along with the TCS
  335. ion.
  336. We've tied up with them for nearly 800 centres across India,
  337. so you can write in their proctor centres in engineering colleges also
  338. like the government examination like the
  339. entrance examinations of many top institutions,
  340. you can write this final test with the TCS
  341. ion. That's the most wonderful thing
  342. and you also get reward and all of you will be getting
  343. certificates and will assess the certificate.
  344. You will know where are you standing in syntax,
  345. where you are in vocabulary where you are in phraseology.
  346. So depending upon the rounds, what are there in that particular level?
  347. Your certificate will nicely detail all those things and then medals.
  348. Most of you, all of you in international level, will get medals.
  349. So some of you who are top
  350. in the state inter school level you'll be getting more than 10% of the people who are
  351. participating in the state and national level will be
  352. getting medals and then trophies for the winners,
  353. not just winners.
  354. The top 100 people will be getting not only trophies, book sets
  355. and you'll get gift vouchers and so on. And what not?
  356. Why not? You learn more about through Google reviews, Go and see the reviews.
  357. Just go to our site.
  358. We have given so many reviews given by the school authorities, students and so on.
  359. So if you are seeing this programme from another country other than India,
  360. then it is just $120.
  361. You can go to our website and independent registration and another country,
  362. other country registrations. You can pay $120
  363. or if you're an independent candidate, then you are having seven.
  364. A
  365. programme with ₹7250 is the cost of the programme.
  366. You may get some discounts.
  367. You can just check because we have customer care
  368. workers more when it comes to independent candidates.
  369. So there will be an exclusive customer care person
  370. whom you can contact and then co ordinate.
  371. If you're joining through school, then schools are co ordinating and helping
  372. us a lot, so your cost has got reduced very well.
  373. So the whole programme All four books, all four levels,
  374. all five books and four levels all together it's only ₹4900 or you can
  375. still join by paying ₹690 and enjoying the level one of the programme.
  376. No, this is the first time I'm hearing about spell B.
  377. I just want to go through the programme and then let me decide. Well, very well.
  378. Please join the Level one programme for that. Also, you get
  379. around 45 days of coaching access
  380. and one book camp for two,
  381. for 2.5 hours
  382. and then a book.
  383. And then you will be given an examination offline or online,
  384. depending upon the school's wish and the dates on mutually
  385. uh, agreeable dates along with the school.
  386. That's it.
  387. The assessment will come, certificate will come and you'll get certificates.
  388. If you are eligible, you'll get medals.
  389. So all this happens with just ₹690 of well research the programme
  390. and you are connected with us, not just one
  391. as a national and international organisation.
  392. Now that
  393. you have programmes from human security. It's a United Nations trust fund
  394. for human security programme.
  395. It is so you will have a better vision and outlook on How am I to write?
  396. How am I to think like an international person?
  397. How am I to target myself for international programmes?
  398. That's truly international, right? So very happy to be with you all.
  399. Thanks for listening to me so far.
  400. Let's meet during the coaching sessions.