Online lesson with online student partners from Acharya Sukumar Sen Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal. Based on a lesson developed by Prof. Rajni Bhargava,  NYU and Prof. Pritesh Chakrobarty, Acharya Sukumar Sen University.

1. Proficiency Level: Intermediate range

2. Time: 4×75 minutes 

3. Objectives: At the end of this lesson student will be able to:

• describe their best friend by listing their best features and weaknesses
• narrate briefly how they met and how their friendship evolved
• explain the meaning of friendship and provide examples

4. Language Targets: students will be able to use:

• subjunctive in polite commands, advice and wishes (source: 1, 2)
• conditional sentences (sources: 1, 2)
• Verb stem + सकना (source)
• obligatory/compulsion construction x को with चाहिए, होना, पड़ना (source)
• जो/जिसको …, वह verb stem + सकें 

5. Performance Assessment: Students will write a blog post individually and/or create a podcast with a partner on friendship.

E. Learning Scenarios: 

Step 1: Introduce yourself to your online partners.  

Step 2: Warm up exercise: ( a game) Write down the words you already know related to friendship for a wordle. Add more to it by the end. WordClouds.com

Step 3: View the following video and check the words and phrases your heard and are listed in the glossary provided which best describe your best friend. Add a few you consider relevant but missing (2 or more). 

http://http://hindistartalk.lrc.columbia.edu/lesson/friendship/

Homework: All About Friendship अच्छा दोस्त कौन होता है, क्या करता है | Seriously Strange.  Define the words and phrases on a google slide.

प्रेरित करना/प्रोत्साहन m. देना –  निराश नहीं करता है – परेशानी से बाहर लाता है –  ख़ामियाँ –  समझता है –  पूरी बात सुनता है –  हल m. निकालता है – अपने मुँह मिट्ठू नहीं बनता है – अनबन होना – नीचा नहीं दिखाता है – मज़ाक़ नहीं उड़ाता है –

बुराई नहीं करता है –  उसकी ख़ैर नहीं – पीठ पीछे कुछ नहीं करता है –  अनुभव m. –  यक़ीन करता है –  आपके साथ खड़ा रहता है –  जो आपका साथ निभाता है – दोस्ती कोई भी रंग देख कर, कोई भी रूप देख कर नहीं की जाती, कोई भी जाती नहीं- दोस्त को मनाना – जाने नहीं देना –

Step 4: In pairs compare  your definitions, and find out the common and different culturally rooted words used for friendship.

Step 5: Proceed to talking to each other about friends. Audio record your conversation. Take turns — answer at least 3 questions at a time. Include answers to the following leading questions. Use at least 5 expressions from the list.

1. Who is your best friend? 
2. What does he/she look like? 
3. Where does s/he live?
4. Why is s/he your best friend? What special qualities does s/he have?
5. How did you meet your best friend? 
6.  What do you have in common? Why exactly do you get on well together?
7. Have you ever fallen out with each other? Why?
8. Does distance matter? How do you keep/stay in touch? How often do you meet up?
9. Which quality is the most important to you in a friend? Why?
10. What animal would you compare your friend with?
11. Does gender matter in friendship?

Step 6: View the youtube clip from movie “Dostana”

Partner’s in Crime – Part 11 – Dostana (2008) | Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra

In pairs, write at least 5 qualities, which you would like in a friend and 5 which you would not like जो……….हो , सके…. (subjunctive)

Homework: Read the following text.

1. Review the grammar points.

2. Write sentences using the following words and phrases from the text excerpt and use at least once each grammar construction:

Step 7: Project: Write for a blog on the topic of friendship discussing a perfect friendship (heritage learners)

Or 

Make a podcast with a partner on the topic of friends discussing the perfect friendship (foreign language learners)

1. Basic introduction of your podcast.

2. Content – discuss issues or topics which you consider relevant. Use each language structure at least 3 times

3.  Consult the following rubrics:

Podcast Rubric Guidelines