Lesson Plan Level 2

Lesson Plan - Level 2

• We are teaching the language in “Immersion method”  which means that you should not use English or any other language to teach Sourashtra.

• Focus on pronunciation.  Never discuss the origin of the words.  (Lot of Tamil words that we are using are derived from Sanskrit).

• Don’t change the words of Sourashtra Dialects/accept the way the student speaks.

• Avoid English translation  or word to word translation in the class.

• All these lessons are to be taught in a few weeks each.  Add your creativity and imagination to elaborate the lessons. No need to rush.

•  Practice combining each of the word in sentences as long as needed.

• To make the students feel positive, we should say “we learned this, do you remember” instead of saying  “you forgot what was taught”.  No negative comments.

• This lesson plan is a guideline. Go with the flow of the class and student’s mood, you could mix any different parts or in different order in one class. This will make it more interesting to all of us!

• Always have some stories or songs for gap fillers.

Part 1

1. Assess and evaluate a student's level of comprehension.

Make notes : check the level of vocab/sentences - create an assessment chart of individual students for yourself.

2. Politeness and  respect - teach students  to use “namaskAr, dhannu”;  “jiili avus”  by addressing others as amma/bei or babu/mai.   

3. Meet and greet is a must - Follow all guidelines from Level 1 for Meet and Greet.  Teach our culture’s importance in respecting older adults.

Part 2 

1. Review Family tree - lesson from Level 1 (the basic family)

2. Extended family - mausi bedo/bedi, mhoTobA beDo/beDi, nhannabAbeDo/beDi, mamAbeDo/beDi and phoynbeDo/beDi.

3. Numbers 1-12, 25, 50,100, 1000

4. Fractions - ¼, ½, ¾, 1

5. Ordinal numbers - mullayo, divayo thinvayo, charvayo, panchvayo, sovayo, satvayo, aTvayo, novayo, desvayo. 

6. Assertive /definitive 

• tU kerno sEtte

• kerno hOrio

• calno poDario

• hoDiis tirai

7. Adjectives

• sijje beLo

• turkke naLaer

• phuTTe peDi

• tikke caTni

Part 3

1. Action words/verbs - example: speak about the play ground or the day at school.

2. Focus  on the past  and present.(Refer to Kamini bei’s lessons in google.sourashtraassociation.org) 

3. Opposites/Contrasting words 

Examples:    

• biis/hUT

• hUT/jhAi

• cAl/dhAm

• unco/khallo

• bhittar/bharAD

Tips/ Suggestions

• Ask kids what they will do in the park:  khAL, dhAm, cAl, dhunki, jhirkki, poDatte, roDatte and at the dining table.

• Increase vocabulary by telling stories. 

• Encourage conversation: with simple sentences.

• You could use these: mii, ami.  tU, tumi, tumi aski.

•  taeno, taenu, telle

• Give words like tree, moon, temple and ask kids to make a sentence(vocabulary).

4. Nature words

• jhAD, matti, pani, sakho, phUl, poLLo, visunjce phUl, varo, pikke poLLo, sukke kailo, dherum poLLo, sundur, neddi, donGgar, and tOp.

5.guNNun, visESun:

Example:

sukke jhAD, kELu jhAD, matti miTTo, bheisu dUt, vaLu rAN, naLeru jhAD, hunna pani, siLLA gAm, rAn bheis, kaLAm sinGgAEr, gAmu jitturav.

Tips/suggestions:

• focus on sentence formations.

• Encourage the students to conjugate sentences.

Part 4

---  Be watchful of mispronunciation  and be watchful of mixing up of English and Tamil words unnecessarily - (the usage of and, then, adAvadu, aDutu, and purinjarani)

1.Practice on  la/La  --- pronunciation variation. 

kavlo - kavLo

kaLo - kallo

khowLo(white pumpkin) - khowlo(caugh)

ambulo - ambuLo

     2.Adding ‘n’ suffix for plural:

Example:

- beTki - beTkin,

-  beTko - beTkAn,

-  jhAD - jhADun, 

- suno - sunAn.

Teach the differences in meaning of action words for plural and formality/respect.  

1. avaras, avarAEs

2. khAris, khArAEs

3. jiyes, jiyAES

4. avai, avan

Part 5

1.Conjugation and sentences: 

ko, uk, Ak, hAl, jOL,kucci, (tega, telle, yega, more)gani, maeLLi and jOLrhii, gheDim, hAtur etc.

Example:

tenko, veDikkan, kAmuk, temAmkan, sunA hAl, musunA hAl, tET rhii, poLTamuk kucci, ambAk kucci, morjOL rhii, mii maeLLi, rhiyet maeLLi, yega gani, kAviyAjOL rhii.

-    mii ‘kin’ thaeno poLTamuk ‘kin’ dhawrAk jiyaeyo. 

-   oppaye hAli bisso sikkaras. 

-   khAnA tikkAm(khaye vEnGgu) dhyAn keran hOnA.

-   cAr laDDu khayitte nhiitto phiir guLLeyo magaris.

-   cowdet meLLi havTan jEDaras.

-   poLTamuk jAnA jiyeti meLLi, cowduno.

-   boggu diye(gheDim) hAtur phiri khaLLiDiyo.

 Part 6

1. Question words and simple answers.

2. How to change statements to questions?

Adding ‘kAE’ to a sentence to make a question. 

Examples of sentences changed into questions:

• avis - aviskAE?

• avan - avankAE?

• khAris - khAriskAE?

• jA - jAskAE?

• kOT sEtte, kAi khAriO? kOn avariyO? 

Examples of simple questions:

• khobbo avan? kago jAriyo? kogo yelle?

• kOn

• kiso

• kOT/kolleT

• kago

• kAi

• konGko

Tips/Suggestion: 

• Watch a recipe from yummy sourashtra blog

• Introduce tenses through recipes from https://www.yummysourashtra.com

• Encourage conversation among children by addressing each other.

Part 7

1.Parts of the body: (more in detail.)

haDko, keNDo, reTTe/ khAndu,  khobo, pavni,  doLAroppo, reppA khEs, cipo, guDgo, etc.  

Actions of parts of body:

• kEs orppillitte

• dosko bUDitte

• dAt manjitte

• doLo miskitte

• khundal tayes

• guDgo moNci moNci  khundal taino.

Tips /suggestion:

• Ask questions like,what can you do with legs,eyes etc.

• Check for example sentences in (polltam.sourashtraassociation.org).

Part 8

Each topic can be taught in several weeks.

1. Negative words - avnA, jAnA, rhAnA, khAnA, pEnA, juNNA, nhii, asko nhii, ruvvo maeLLi nhii, kernAs kernA, nhii menet nhii.

Refer to google link Sou.lessons  - (polltam.sourashtraassociation.org)

2. active/passive -  biis/ bisAD; khA/ khavAD 

There are lots of examples on the poLLTam website and memrise.

Examples for negative in questions and answers.

• tU kAl cowdiskAE?(female)

• mii kAl cowdini.

• tU cowdeskAE?(male)

• mii cowdeni.

• tumi khayAEskAE?(plural/formal)

• ami khayAEni.

Tips/suggestions.

• Focus on only present and past depending on students’ level and readiness, go to future tense when ready, 

• Encourage conversation among children by addressing each other and help them with negative answers.

• Don't use any grammatical terminologies - don't use the words such as ‘singular, plural, action word, verbs, nouns’

• Attention to pronunciation. 

• Practice the usage of negative words in several ways.

Part 9

1. Feelings/emotions  

• prEv

• keSTam

• siin

• vicAr  

• veTTi vatto

• himco

• vambu dimbu

Make sentences with these feelings.

There is no difference (either gender or singular plural changes) in the feeling words. 

Example:

• sOk keraraes - same for  mogo, togo, taego, tunGko, tenGko, tellego.

• poT jeLaraes, siLLo lagaraes, hOnGgu avaraes.

Explain other actions like:

• pows poDaraes, cinGkul lalaraes, oSAED hanaraes.

  Tips/suggestions:

• How do you feel going to the park? 

• If  Dad gives you a surprise gift, how would you feel?

Part 10

1. Talk about Pongal, Diwali. (Refer to Upasna’s notes)

2. Cover the differences among these words(vibhakti).

• mii / more/mogo/ morjOL, avre

• tU/ tumi 

• yeno/yenGko

• mii/mogo

• tU/togo

• bei/beik

• dado/dadAk

3. Practise how to add ‘yo’ suffix

Example:

• yelle peino KAvyAyo.

• yelle peino more.

• more boggu.

• tenko poLTam.

• bAyo, ambAyo, babuyo, beyyo, ghommAyo, ghEruyo.

   Tips/suggestions:

• Split most of the prepositions into various lessons.

• Bring it up gradually.

• Do not overload everything at once - introduce one at a time.

Part 11

1. Difference between sE/ sEtte

By  giving examples,explore the differences depending on the contexts.

Example:

• peino sE 

• mogo doLo sEtte 

• mogo kAm sEtte.

• more hAtum kAi sEtte?

• sondo joman sEtte.

• cainAn sE.

• khAtteyo sE.

• kAi pajekii sE.

• jhAD unco sE.

• morjOL kAr sEtte.

2. Simple complex and compound sentences

• Shoe thaili javu

• khaiti avus.

Part 12

1.ruccin

• Spices, Cooking actions, Cooking utensils, vegetables.

• Make panjcAmirtu (mashing five nectars) with a variety of fruits in the class.e.g. Bananas, dates, honey, ghee etc.

• Teachers can do a chutney making demo in the class-room. 

Tips/suggestions

•  Kitchen field trip, a small story, a game.

• This topic has a lot of content. Teachers can use this topic for a few weeks, but not continuously (now and then as gap filler) .