My First Encounter with BEC

BEC stands for British English Council, I have opted for a Certification from BEC so this post is all about my first experience of BEC Training.

PS: I will be writing this Post without using words like AND, OR, BUT. Which are general fillers in the language with some pretty common words like basically, actually, usually etc. These kind of words are called empty words, which don't have a meaning.

Today I have had my first class of BEC English Certification for Vantage level. Trainer a lady, named Jaigowri . She started the class to introduce us with our name prefixed with an adjective starting from the first word of our Name(like she named herself Jolly Jaigowri).

That was a tricky, (saved but) really interesting along with 2 things which you like about you with(Please notice I din't use AND :) ) the most happiest moment of your life.

My answer was Meaningful Mayank!!! Other people also come up with some good words like Rocking Retheesh, Victorious Venky etc. Two things which I like about myself are, First is, I am a funny guy, second, I am a good writer(I don't know what you guys might feeling :)).

Then the most happiest moment of my life when I presented a pearl set to my Mom from my salary. This was happend to be a good exercise, came to know about other's experiences.


Then we were given two pictures where (saved and) need to describe the situation according to that. Let me briefly describe the pictures.

First picture was a scene of a busy market of a city at peak hrs. We need to understand the picture then(saved one more AND) come up with the description, idea about the picture. It was a market showing some Grocer store, Bakers, News Agent office, One car having a family inside passing by, one motorbike, half shown bus, 2 twins troubling their mother, plane flying at a low level(which states airport is nearby that description came from a person in the class), one couple standing outside the grocery shop, one girl in front of baker's shop waiting for someone. One unattended object lying around. (Good memory, I recited the picture without even referring back to it :) ). You can refer to the picture :)

It was very interesting exercise, got a good response from peopel. Different people trying different predictions like some called that unattended object could be a bomb, bag, even a gift :).

One guy told a person peeping out of the Baker's first floor window was trying to call the girl to be careful of the pick pockets, other one told she might have been waiting for her boyfriend. Interesting thoughts were pouring in. People were getting creative :).

Second picture was scene of a typical Saturday morning(As One guy called Raj described it). Whole of the family was in the scene. Mother was running after a Cat meanwhile the milk got boiled over, Eldest daughter was trying to study even though younger brother was watching a soccer match on TV with full volume still father was snoozing happily in the mean time youngest son was doing some mischief while a Neighbour/boyfriend/passer by/vendor(We could not decide!!!) was peeping through window to catch the whole scene :) .

You guys can try to predict the image, no need to upload the image when I have described it so effectively :)

After that we had some audio session listening people greeting each other in different ways. Some were very friendly, warm, helping, responding,(one more but) some were rude, lethargic, kinda favouring you attitude.

Then we had a greeting session with each other based on the audios, which was another interesting part.

How to start the Conversation , (one more and) respond a conversation and take it further. This is something very important, one should know how to greet people or how to return the greetings. Like If some is saying "How Do You Do" then we should return saying How Do You Do.

If someone is asking you "How Are You"(Stress on Are like aare) then we should respond Fine, Thanks, How Are You(Stress on You).

Very interesting, interactive, meaningful , knowlegeable session, whole credit goes to the lady(Jaigowri).I found her very dedicated for the training, who wants participation from everyone. Looking forward to have some more interesting stuff , (saved one more AND)will keep on sharing the experience with you guys.

Let me tell you, we are so addicted to use these fillers which I mentioned at the start specially AND that sometimes even we, ourselves don't know, when we are using them, which I came to know after completing this article ,(even here I was using and, can u beleieve :))searched for AND(I found it at 5 places :))

Love,
Mayank