During class students write on Google Docs and Google Slides. Submissions are in audio or on google docs sent via email or uploaded to NYUClasses as directed. VoiceThread, Miro or other applications are used as instructed.

Unit 1. Job Interview. Week 1

Instructions:

1. View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFuPJqFy3UU and individually you post an audio file here by the end of Friday: 

• 3 points your strongly agree with and explain why
• 3 points you strongly disagree with and explain why

2. Imagine you are applying for a job at an NGO and are asked to record a Self-Introduction video. Choose the field you want to talk about and your expertise, skills, hopes, experience, education, along with personal traits and interests.

2. Examine https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/important-job-interview-tips-1487851130-2

3. Create a flyer with do’s and dont’s during job interviews.

Unit 2. NGO Work. Week 2-3

Instructions:

1. View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ab0vASi-8&feature=youtu.be (1:45-4:39), develop a concept map  and discuss the issue. Consider:

• Role: NGO activist wanting to help (who are you and who is the family/person in need)
• Audience: Agency/Organization to finance a program (who are they and how do they help?)
• Format: Concept Map of the issue and Zoom meeting (what would you want to do, why, how; what would you ask the family/person in need and the agency to do, etc.)
• Topic: Analysis of the issue – elements, roots, solutions

2. Continue working as NGO activists with Seema’s family. Share your NGO ideas with your partner and list  what is common and different in a Venn Diagram between your maps.

3. View 4:39- 8:35 and discuss in pairs what the main points of Seema’s success story is.

4. Merge your ideas from the homework and present a proposal (ppt with audio) at a fund raising event what you DID with Seema’s family and what else you want to do.

Unit 3. My NGO. Week 4

Instructions:

1. Prepare a presentation and share main arguments and points of your NGO. 

2. View the video from 12:29-14:43 and tell Seema’s story in the role of a NGO activist, as you are nominating her for the person of the month to a radio show – via a phone call (audiofile) and an email to the editor in chief of the program.

3. Language targets need to be used  at least 3 times each in your assignment: 

• X को + infinitive + चाहिए/होना/पड़ना, especially when there is an object of the infinitive
• conditional अगर सीमा को हिम्मत नहीं होती तो वह सफल ना होती 

4. You will use at least 30 new vocabulary items from the video in your phone call and email:

_____4:40-8:45

• सिलाई
-बनाई f. – sowing and knitting
• कारोबार m. – job/work
• 
बैंक में पैसा बचने के लिए खाता खोलना – to open an account in the bank to save money
• 
जिज्ञासा
 f. – curiosity
• काश मैं भी ऐसा कुछ कर पाती
 – if only I could do the same
• चूल्हा फूंकना – to blow the fire pit/oven
• 
इच्छा
 f. – wish
• 
फटे हुए कपड़े
 – worn out/torn clothes
• अपना कारोबार बना लेना – to start one’s own business
• शौक़ m. – hobby
• X-को 
प्रोत्साहन m. + देना – to motivate/stumulate
• 
बेचैनी f. – restlessness <>
 चैनी
/शांति
 – peacefulness
• पैसा कमाना – to earn money 
• पैसे 
संभालना – to take care of the money
• पैसा बचाने के लिए ही पैसा चाहिए
 – to save money, money is needed
• फ़िज़ूल
 – bad/in vein
• 
मानना > 

मान जाना – to accept
• तय करना – to decide
• पैसे इकट्ठा करना – to gather money 
• जो भी पैसा बचता है 
उसको बैंक में ले जाती है – She brings to the bank all the money she saves (literally which money she saves, this money she brings to the bank)

_____12:29-14:43

• जमा करना = इकट्ठा करना 
• ख़ुद का होना साबित करना – to prove one can stand on their own feet
• दूसरों को रोज़गार देना – to give others livelihood
• सिलाई की मशीन – sowing machine
• उत्पादन m. – product
• हल्का – light
• तरक़्क़ी की रफ़्तार पकड़ना – to catch the path of progress
• मार्ग दर्शन m. – to show the way
• महत्त्वपूर्ण सफलता f. – important success
• परिस्थिति से गुज़रना – to go through a situation
• हिम्मत f. – courage
• हौसला m. – morale/courage
• धीरज/धैर्य m. – patience
• वाक़िफ़ – familiar
• फ़ायदा m. – advantage
• दास्तान f. = कहानी f.

Rubrics for evaluation: https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/presentational-mode-rubrics/

Unit 4. Success Stories. Week 5

Instructions:

1. Tell a media source a success story, including: 

1. introducing a person and their background,
2. what happened and
3. why this needs to be told to others as a success story

2. Practice

• language structures in focus
• high frequency vocabulary items from last week

Unit 5. Female Porters. Week 6-7 (based on https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/environment-jobs/)

Instructions:

1. Read the following text and consult the glossary below when needed

http://www.bbc.com/hindi/india/2015/04/150331_bhadels_women_porters_goa_sr

2. As an NGO activist, send an email to the local ministry of Human Resources what this job entails and why an effort to protect this job needs to be initiated again vis-a-vis at least two of the following factors:

1. gender equality
2. traditions
3. environment
4. Covid-19

Submit before class on Thursday a rough draft on google doc.

3. Work on the email on Thursday by expanding with more:

• vocabulary (use at least 20 new items) and
• grammar forms (use at least twice each of the structures reviewed last week). 

Consult the rubrics for evaluation: https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/rubrics-for-evaluation/

ढुलाई – delivery पेशा m. = धंधा m. – profession, occupation अधिकांश = ज़्यादा  संख्या f. – number रुचि f. = दिलचस्पी f.  घरेलू काम + निपटाना – to perform + domestic work मूल निवासी – aboriginal  पोशाक f. = कपड़े  बुनना – to  अतीत में – in the past साक्ष्य m. – witness X-का ज़िक्र करना/मिलना की क़तार में – in the row/line of गहमागहमी f. – hustle-bustle मंदा समय – slow time

दशक m. -decade  कड़ी प्रतिद्वंद्विता f.  – tough competition आँख मूंद कर = बिना सोचे समझे भरोसा करना = विश्वास करना  भारी मात्रा में – to a great extent औसत – average बांट देना – to share ढोना – to transport बीड़ी + पीना – to smoke rolled tabacco leaves एकमुश्त – lumpsum  मानदेय m. – honorarium वरिष्ठ नागरिक m. – senior citizens आवेदन m. करना – to petition  स्वाभिमानी – proud  X-को  झिझक f. + होती है – to  hesitate  असुविधा f. – inconvenience

Edit and modify your products. Make sure you use correctly oblique case and gender agreement between object and infinitive in the obligatory constructions. Upload your work on the Assignment page.

Unit 6. Traditional Jobs. Week 7-8 (based on https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/environment-jobs/)

Instructions:

1. Explore more traditional jobs and try to articulate their benefits (see recommended resources below).

2. Review and/or learn how to use the following language targets:

• infinitives + postpositions (X-को साफ़ करने के लिए ; X-की रखवाली करने के बिना, X-के बावजूद, के अलावा, etc.)
• infinitives in obligation/compulsion construction and their agreement with the object if they are transitive verbs— X-को + infinitive + पड़ना (उसको मकान साफ़ करना पड़ता है; उनको दवा लेनी पड़ती है)
• frequentative (आया-जाया करते हैं, बनाया करती है)

3. Prepare your main points for a debate (to be submitted): for and against traditional jobs in the context of local and global and the following aspects: 

• आर्थिक – economic
• सामाजिक – societal 
• पर्यावरण से सम्बंधित – environmental
• संस्कृति और पारम्परिक दस्तकारी के संरक्षण से सम्बंधित – preservation of cultural  heritage, etc.

Recommended sources to use:

• Folk Arts and Crafts 
• Clay Pots
• Sugar cane
• Worm nursery
• Ayurvedic medicine making
• Carpet making: 11.43-14.49 

4. Review the 3 main language structures we covered last week and modify your petition letters. 

5. Record an interview in a role-play — between a journalist and a traditional job representative. Include:

1. self introduction – 4-5 sentences
2. 5 questions and 5 answers (of at least 4-5 sentences)
3. use of the main structures at least twice

Unit 7. Redo Applying for a Job. Week 9-10

Instructions:

1. Imagine you are asked by a potential employer to prepare a presentation about yourself, which includes the following slides:

• self-introduction
• professional goals (immediate and long-term)
• scope of professional interests
• experience and accomplishments/special projects
• skills (strengths and weaknesses) and education
• reason why you need this particular position

2. You need to:

• use twice the grammar targets we have practiced so far
• develop a glossary of at least 10 new words you will use (from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Ra21u2uJM)
• include a related image in each slide
• develop each slide with an audio file

Consult the following rubrics for assessment: https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/rubrics-for-evaluation/

3. Review your ppts and presentations. Further improve them by expanding our language structures. We will first work on the google doc of the week: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AiHKqpeTCriNCjeDF1BvoD5m8doLNRHgQIDJNpLhYRs/edit

4. Read: 

• The subjunctive mood: https://open.lib.umn.edu/hindiurdu/chapter/grammar-point-2-2-hindi-subjunctive-mood/
• The passive voice: hindilanguage.info/hindi-grammar/verbs/voice/passive-voice/ (transitive verb इन past pple + जाना — हमारे घर में समोसे बनाए जाएँगे; काफ़ी तोहफ़े ख़रीदे जाते हैं)

5. Add 3 subjunctives and 3 passives in our ppt for our class.

Unit 8. Clean India Campaign. Week 11-14

Instructions:

1. Last year you viewed Toilet ek prem katha — Read the following related article and report the gist in an audio file: https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/toilets/

2. Work on your audio file to become a written report with the use of passive voice: Write an open letter to a local newspaper as a member of the community: you are a village leader asking for support: Use (a) the information from the article (b) vocabulary items from the list below and (c) passive tense 5 times.

3. Please refer to the following vocabulary list related to the toilet issue:

• शौचालय m. – toilet
• शौच करना – to uriniate
• मुद्दा m. – issue
• समस्या f. – problem
• कठिनाई f. = मुश्किल f. – difficulty
• अधिकांश = ज़्यादा 
• लगभग = क़रीब – approximately 
• X  का निर्माण करना – to build
• नगर निगम m. – municipality
• ग्राम पंचायत m.- village council
• X का समाधान करना = X को दूर करना – to solve
• X का अभाव m. – lack of X
• महिलाएं = स्त्रियाँ =औरतें = नारियाँ
• पुरुष = आदमी = नर
• समूहों में – in groups
• खेतों में – in the fields
• खुले में – in the open
• स्वास्थ्य m. = तबियत f. – health
• कल्याण m. – well-being, prosperity
• सुरक्षा f. – safety
• ‘व्यवहार में बदलाव’ = “व्यवहार परिवर्तन” – change of behaviour
• कार्यक्रम m. – program
• स्वच्छता = साफ-सफाई – cleanliness 
• नीति f. – policy
• अभियान m. – campaign
• X की उपलब्धता – availability of X
• राजनीति f. politics
• नेता m. – politician
• सरकार f. – government
• सरकारी कर्मचारी m. – government official
• कार्यकर्ता m. – activist

Read this UNICEF article and make a podcast summarizing the achievements. 

• argue in an email to the UNICEF project manager that in spite of the efforts/achievements  there are areas for improvement (at least two specific ones) that can only be done locally or with local sensitivity and explain why and how.
• use 3X passives and 3X subjunctives in your written email

Consult: http://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Ohios-Learning-Standards/Foreign-Language/World-Languages-Model-Curriculum/World-Languages-Model-Curriculum-Framework/Instructional-Strategies/Scoring-Guidelines-for-World-Languages/1-Presentational-Speaking-Rubric_unit_Jan2017.pdf.aspx

3. Reformulate the highlighted sentences in your presentations and incorporate the listed phrases in your letter.

4. Based on the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrTZmsRQwk 

• choose 5 नारे related to your letter and write them at the bottom of the letter  
• explain what each means  
• justify why it is useful to put around as signs on the streets
• and justify where (village, city, semi-urban) and why

3. Resubmit letter.