Environment, Community and Sustainability

Syllabus designed by Rajni Bhargava for  Elementary Hindi (YHS Fulbright-Hays 2022)Textbooks and Links:

1) Complete Hindi: Your complete Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing (Teach Yourself) , By Rupert Snell (Author) ISBN-13: 978-1444106831, ISBN-10: 9781444106831 or https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PkQUb7odQEwwx74GTrURsQHUEKT1atY/view?usp=sharing.

2) Hindi Praveshika- by Herman.P. Van Olphen (not required but useful for practicing writing the letters) – – https://drive.google.com/file/d/16RLNQMJ_orvHoIyI23LWIyl36WDIUMoB/view?usp=sharing ( for practicing writing)

3) https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/ll151/ (Basic Hindi 1 by Rajiv Ranjan)

WEEK 1. Topic: Getting to know each other

Language and Function:

  • greet each other and take leave in  culturally appropriate ways
  • negate and affirm (Chapter 1)
  • write your name
  • recognize specific sounds: aspiration of voiced and voiceless consonants, velar sounds, retroflexion, vowel length.
  • identify basic sentence structure
  • ask and answer memorized questions with kyaa and kahaaN (Chapter 1)
  • use sentence structure SOV and the verb hona (Chapter 1)
  • recognize and memorize basic phrases when introducing oneself (Textbook: The Hindi Script and Sound System, Chapter 1)

Resources for writing:

Resources for speaking: 

WEEK 2. Topic: Let’s go to India. Geography.

Language and Function:

  • introduction to script and some conjuncts (Textbook: The Hindi Script and Sound System, Chapter 1)
  • name main states and cities in India
  • name the four directions 
  • ask questions with kyaa and kahaaN (Chapter 1)
  • use simple postpositions:  meiN, par, ke paas, se duur 
  • use demonstrative pronouns: yah, vah > ye, ve (Textbook: Chapter 2 and 3)
  • use  adjectives and noun-adjective agreement baRaa, choTaa
  • use of singular/plural, masculine/feminine, use of oblique (Textbook: Chapter 1, 1.3, 1.4)
  • use copula sentence

Resources:

WEEK 3. Topic: Where am I and my family from?

Language and Function:

  • name and identify relatives
  • ask and answer questions about where my family is from
  • ask for and give personal information
  • express possession with kinship terms (kaa/ke/kii) (Textbook: Chapter 5, 5.3)
  • ask and answer questions about age
  • use interrogative pronouns (kaun, kiskaa, kiskii, kiske,kahaaN se)(Textbook: Chapter 2, 2.1)
  • use possessive pronouns (Textbook: Chapter 6.4)
  • use of numbers (1-10)
  • use emphatic hii and bhii (Textbook: Chapter 4)
  • meet and exchange personal information with family in India

Performance Task

Resources:

WEEK 4. Topic:  My Home

Language and Function:

  • use post positions mein, par, ke paas, se duur and demonstrative pronouns: ye, ve, yah, vah (Textbook: Chapter 2 and 3)
  • use  adjectives like baRa

    a, choTaa, gandaa, saaf
    use compound post postpositions: ke andar, ke baahar, ke upar, ke niiche

  • describe your home and rooms
  • use of singular/plural, masculine/feminine, use of oblique (Textbook: Chapter 1, 1.3, 1.4)
  • use of present continuous tense

Resources: 

The late artist Janu Ravte's familyWEEK 5: Topic: Family and Daily Routines

Language and Function:

  • List and identify various daily activities
  • Tell time
  • identify and name days of the week
  • ask and answer questions about daily routine
  • use noun-adjective agreement, feminine and masculine (Textbook: Chapter 1, 1.3, 1.4)
  • use personal pronouns in direct and oblique forms (Textbook: Chapter 1, 1.1)
  • use of present habitual (Textbook: Chapter 6.1)
  • use reflexive pronouns (apnaa, khud) (Textbook: Chapter 6.3)
  • use numbers (1-30)
  • use past tense (Textbook: Chapter 4)
  • describe what people/family do in each room of the house everyday

Performance Task

Resources:

WEEK 6. Topic: Regional Foods of India

Language and Function:

  • identify and name fruits and vegetables
  • identify and name regional dishes of India in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh
  • ask and answer questions about price, quality and quantity
  • identify and list ingredients used in cooking
  • create and follow a simple recipe
  • use numbers (1-30)
  • express needs (Textbook: Chapter 7, 7.3) and likes/dislikes
  • use indirect verbs with nouns or with infinitives: X + ko noun + chaahiye (need) or X+ ko infinitive/noun + infinitive + chaahiye
  • use of imperatives (tum form) 
  • use X+ ko infinitive/noun + infinitive + pasand hai 

Resources:

WEEK 7. Topic: Friends, Activities and the Environment:

Language and Function:

  • ask and answer questions about personal preferences
  • describe leisure activities, hobbies and habits 
  • ask about  and express wishes and preferences
  • make polite requests to do or not to do something (Chapter 5, 5.2)
  • use infinitives with postpositions ( baiThne ke liye, khaanaa banaane ke baad)
  • recognize and use days of the week and the months
  • use direct infinitive with caahnaa (Chapter 13, 13.2)
  • use infinitive with pasand honaa, acchaa lagnaa (Chapter 13, 13.3)
  • use present progressive tense (Chapter 8, 8.1)
  • use more interrogative words: kaise, kyoN
  • use comparative and superlative degree of adjectives

Resources:

WEEK 8: Topic: Seasons; Weather; Calendar, Festivals

Language and Function:

  • identify and name Hindu and conventional months
  • state what date and year it is by looking at a calendar
  • describe seasons and their main characteristics
  • describe weather related to geographical location
  • match clothes with season 
  • use present habitual tense (Textbook: Chapter 6, 6.1)
  • ask question and answer using what kya, when kahaan and where and how
  • describe Diwali festival and how it is celebrated in different parts of India

Resources:

Week 9. Topic: Planning a trip to India

Language and Function:

  • identify places on the map to visit and explain why
  • compare the weather between several regions and plan to pack according
  • accept, refuse and react to suggestions
  • give simple reasons for preferences
  • describe the places and sustainable practices there in simple sentences
  • use future tense (Textbook: Chapter 9, 9.1)
  • use conjunct verbs (Textbook: Chapter 7, 7.6)
  • use connectors (is liye, kyonki, fir, etc.) 
  • use of saknaa, chuknaa, paanaa (Textbook: Chapter 12, 12.3)
  • use of conditional sentences (Textbook: Chapter 10, 10.4)

Resources: 

WEEK 10-11. Topic: Folk tales 

Language and Functions: 

  • ask about and describe a series of past events
  • use introductory and ending conventional phrases for story-telling
  • use cohesive markers (iske baad, isii liye, uska matlab, etc.)
  • use perfect tense with focus on objects + ko and agreement in masculine singular

Resources:

WEEK 12-13. Topic: Movie Project: To be assigned

Language and Functions:

  •  describe characters in the movie
  • narrate in simple sentences the storyline
  • use of cohesive markers
  • use of perfect tense

Resources:

WEEK 14 – 15. Topic: Story Project and Review