when wishes come true

1. INNOVATIVE WORK
Introduction
Innovation is defined as “the process of making
changes to something established by introducing
“something new”. Innovative work help a teacher to
teach a lesson easily. The role of innovative work is very
important in English language teaching. In order to teach
a lesson innovatively, the teacher must use a lot of
pictures games and songs. In teaching learning process
the role of innovative work is very important. It makes
the class very important. It makes the class interesting.
Innovative work is one of the effective method for
teaching difficult lesson easily. So in English language
education the role of innovative work is very helpful,
useful and effective
The present innovative work is an attempt to make a
textbook by dramatizing the events in the lesson “when
wishes come true” by Rabindranath Tagore. This lesson
is meant for the eighth standard students including in
English course book. This lesson belongs to unit I

2. WHEN WISHES COME TRUE
Main characters
Subal
Sushil
Goddess
(that morning, father starts scolding his son, sushil)
Subal : Sushil do not do like that….
If I come there, I will beat you.
Sushil : Father, I didn’t do anything, those people
are telling lies.
(this is always happening in this house, Next day. That
was Saturday, school would be over by two in the
afternoon)
Sushil : Oh! I didn’t want to go to school today,
today is geography test… No, No I didn’t
go to school.
(then jumped into bed. Suddenly subal came to the
stage. He was surprised.)

3. Subal: : Sushil… why are you still in bed?
Aren’t you going to school?
Sushil : (says in low voice) Father, I’ve a terrible
Stomachache. I can’t go to school today.
Subal : I had brought some lozenges for you, but
You have stomach ache. So you had
better not have them
(Subal go out of the room and prepared a brew for sushil.
After sometime he entered with a bowl of a really bitter
brew)
Sushil : (looks at the brew) I’m fine now, my
stomachache has gone, I’m going to
School.
Subal : You are not going out anywhere today.
Drink this and lie down here quietly and
take rest of the day.
(Subal forced the brew to the sushil’s throat and locked
the door and go out)

4. Sushil : (Crying) if I could be as old as my father I
Would be able to do whatever I want.
(at the same time subal sat outside and think)
Subal : When I was young, my parents loved
me very much. I couldn’t study as much
as I ought to have done. If I could be
young once again, I wouldn’t waste my
time.
(Suddenly a goddess appeared in front of sushil. Sushil
cried aloud, father opened the door)
Sushil : Father… goddess…
Subal : where is the goddess?
(Goddess appeared in front of them)
Sushil : Look… Look there
Subal : Oh… Goddess
Goddess : what you want?
Subal : I want to regain my childhood/

5. Sushil : I want to be as old as my father.
Goddess : Ok, I can understand your feeling,
tomorrow morning you will be change
yourself.
Subal : what…what you mean?
Goddess : yes tomorrow you (Subal)will be as
young as your son. And you(Sushil) will
be old as your father.
(Both of them became happy. Next morning, they found
changes happened on them)
old sushil : Now I became old as my father, I can
do whatever I want.
old subal : oh… thank god, I got my young age
once again.
(sushil move towards mirror and look at himself)
old sushil : what is this, where is my hair?
Now, I can spend my entire time

6. climbing trees, swimming in the pond,
eating raw mangoes, looking for birds
nests.
(Then sushil ran out of the house and try to climb on
olive tree. But he can’t climb it. After that he hung on
the lower branches suddenly that broke into two)
Old sushil : Ayoo…
(Neighbours saw that incident)
A Neighbour : Hey… old man Are you mad? (laughing)
(at the same time)
Subal : oh… I want to go school…
(Sushil entered the house)
Sushil : Father aren’t you going to school?
Subal : (Scratched his head) I… I can’t
I’ve stomachache.
Sushil :What…stomachache, don’t try to fool
me, once I’ve get similar stomachache to

7. avoid going to school. Today, you must
go to school.
(Subal, get ready to go to school.)
(in the evening, old subal returned back home from
school, it was time for sushil to wear his glasses and read
the Ramayana aloud. Subal do their sums)
Old Subal : oh… how complicated problems are
these?
(Next day, subal going to school on the way back he
would go and join a gathering of old people)
Old Subal : Oh! which topic are you discussing
about?
Old people : what are you doing here?
go…go to school.
(Subal reached the school and there he saw the teacher)
Old Subal : (to teacher) Excuse me sir, can you give
a cigarette to me?
Teacher : (angrily) what… you know about

8. cigarette. Today you stand outside the
class on one leg.
(Evening, when subal reached home, sushil know the
things happened in the school)
Old Sushil : Stop there…
what happened on school? These kind of
manners, they are teaching you in school
these days?
(Sushil go inside the house)
old Subal : oh… I want to regain my lost age. I
want my freedom.
(At the same time)
Old Sushil : Oh God… I understood what a foolish
was mine. I want to enjoy my childhood
Please bring back my childhood.
(Goddess appeared in front of them)
Goddess : Sushil, what happened? Are you

9. satisfied with these changes?
(Suddenly subal entered the stage)
Subal : Goddess… Please bring back my
childhood.
Goddess : well, tomorrow morning, when you
wake up that changes will happened on
you.
(Goddess disappeared, next day subal woke up as old
man and sushil found himself young)
Subal : Sushil, why aren’t you studying your
grammar aloud?
Sushil : Father, I lost my book.

10. CONCLUSION
Innovative work help the teacher to teach
something effectively. Here we can increase the interest
of the pupils. And also can avoid rote learning by this
interesting method. This type of innovative methods and
creativity techniques has an important role in English
language teaching. By this we can gain the interest of
the pupils and also the students learn English very
interestingly.