ALM – 3 Precis Writing (Team Activity)

Instructions for the faculty:

Ask your students (group) to select a paragraph from the following and allow them to
read for the above-mentioned purpose.

This activity can be conducted in the lab/class as per your convenience

Ask the students to watch the video before they proceed to write

For more information please contact Dr.Sreelekha madam…

Follow the link before you take the activity (11min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyWsyoj9kg&t=261s

Prepare a precis writing

Note your inputs in the notes and read out your answer when asked

1. It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make

A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay—very
properly so and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it—till, his main mission
of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of clergymen. The clergyman's
object is essentially baptize and preach not to be paid for preaching. So of doctors. They like
fees no doubt—ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well-educated the entire object to
their lives is not fees. They on the whole, desire to cure the sick; and if they are good doctors
and the choice were fairly to them, would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill
him and get it. And so with all the other brave and rightly trained men: their work is first, their
fee second—very important always; but still second.
2. English education and English language have done immense goods to India, inspite of
their glaring drawbacks. The notions of democracy and self-government are the born of English
education. Those who fought and died for mother India's freedom were nursed in the cradle of
English thought and culture. The West has made contribution to the East. The history of Europe
has fired the hearts of our leaders. Our struggle for freedom has been inspired by the struggles
for freedom in England, America and France. If our leaders were ignorant of English and if
they had not studied this language, how could they have been inspired by these heroic struggles
for freedom in other lands? English, therefore, did us great good in the past and if properly
studied will do immense good in future. English is spoken throughout the world. For
international contact our comrherce and trade, for the development of our practical ideas, for
the scientific studies, English-is indispensable "English is very rich in literature," our own
literature has been made richer by this foreign language. It will really be a fatal day if we
altogether forget Shakespeare, Milton, Keats and Shaw

3. Men and women are of equal rank but they are not identical. They are be peerless pair
being supplementary to one another, each helps the other so that without one the existence of
the other cannot be conceived and, therefore it follows as a necessary corollary from these facts
that anything that will impair the status of either of them will involve the equal ruin of them
both. In framing any scheme of women’s education this cardinal truth must be constantly kept
in mind. Man is supreme in the outward activities of a married air and therefore it is in the
fitness of things that he should have a greater knowledge thereof. On the other hand, noise life
is entirely the sphere of woman and, therefore in domestic affairs, in the upbringing and
education of children, woman ought to have more knowledge Not that knowledge should be
divided into water tight compartment’s or that so that some branches of knowledge should be
closed to anyone, but unless courses of instruction are based on discriminating appreciation of
these basic principles, the fullest life of man and woman cannot be developed.

4. Machines have, in fact, become the salves of modern life. They do more and more work
that human beings do not want to do themselves. Think for a moment of the extent to which
machines do work for you. You wake, perhaps, to the hoot of a siren by a machine in a
neighboring factory. You wash in water brought to you by the aid of machinery, heated by
machinery and placed in basins for your convenience by a machine. You eat your breakfast
quickly cooked for you by machinery, go to school in machines made for saving leg labour.
And if you are lucky to be in a very modern school, you enjoy cinema where a machine teaches
you or you listen to lessons broadcast by one of the most wonderful machines. So dependent
has man become on machines that a certain writer imagines a time when machines will have
acquired a will of their own and become the master of men, doomed once more to slavery.

5. Discipline is of the utmost importance in student life. If the young students do not obey
their superiors and go without discipline, they will be deprive do much of the training they
should have at this period and in future they will never be able to extract obedience from other
sin the society. Society will never accept them as persons fit for commanding and taking up
any responsible positions in life. So it is the bounder. Duty of all the students is to observe
discipline in the preparatory stage of their life. A college without discipline can never impart
suitable education to students. The rule of discipline in the playground and the battle field as
well plays a very important role. A team without discipline may not fare well in spite of good
players for want of mutual understanding and cooperation. In any army everyone from the rank
of the general down to the ranks of an ordinary soldier must observe discipline. In case a soldier
does not obey his immediate superior the army becomes a rabble quite unfit for the achievement
of the common ends of war. At first sight it may appear to us that discipline takes away
individual liberty. But on analysis it is found that it does not do so, for liberty is not license.
We find disciplined liberty at the root of all kinds of human happiness.

6. One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey but I like to go by
myself. I can enjoy society in a room, but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am
then never less alone than when alone. I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same
time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. I am not for criticizing
hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it.
There are those who for this purpose go to watering places, and carry the metropolis with them.
I like more elbow room and few encumbrances. I like solitude when I do not give myself up to
it, for the sake of solitude, nor do I ask for a friend in my retreat. The soul of a journey is liberty,
perfect livery to think, feel, and do just as one pleases we go on a journey chiefly to be free of
all inconveniences, to leave ourselves behind. It is because I want a little breathing space to
music on different matters, that I absent myself from the town for a while without feeling at a
loss. The moment I am left to myself, instead of a friend to exchange the same stale topics over
again, let me have a trace with this sort of impertinence. Give me the clear blue sky over my
head and the green turf beneath my feet, a winging road before me and a three hour’s march to
dinner and then to thinking
7. The thing above all that a teacher should Endeavour to produce in his pupils if democracy is
to survive, is the kind of tolerance that springs from an Endeavour to understand those who are
different from ourselves. It is perhaps a natural impulse to view with horror and disgust all
manners and customs different from those to such we are use. Ants and savages put strangers
to death. And those who have never traveled either physically or mentally find it difficult to
tolerate the queer ways and outlandish beliefs of other nationals and other times other sees and
other political parties. This kind of ignorant intolerance is the antithesis of civilized outlook
and is one of the gravest dangers to which cur over crowded world is exposed. The educational
system, ought to be designed to correct it, but much too little is done in this direction at present.
In every country nationalistic feeling is encouraged and school children are taught what they
are only too ready to believe, that the inhabitants of other countries are morally and
intellectually inferior to those of the country in which the school children happens to reside. In
all this the teachers are not to blame. They are not free to teach as they would wish. It is they
who know most intimately the needs of the young. It is they who through daily contact have
come to care for them. But it is not they who decided what shall be taught or what the methods
of instruction are to be.