Lesson Plan Level 3

LEVEL 3 

Conversation class, for students who are well-versed in avre vatto.

Focus on pronunciation.  Never discuss the origin of the words.  Lot of Tamil words that we use are derived from Sanskrit.

Don’t change the Dialects/accept the way the student speaks.

Each part can go two or more weeks. Add your creativity and imagination to elaborate the lessons.

Converse on each topic or part encouraging the students to discuss among them.

Teach more vocabulary including the old words like panponke, meerkaNi, khabiri, and bherkaLi etc.

Part 1

Meet and greet!

Ask the students to recall and tell how their parents greet their family and friends, also what and how they offer!(with a smile and positive outlook).

Looking into their eyes when speaking and serving with a smiling face.

Nodding when seeing someone when saying ‘kAi bei’ or ‘kAi dadA’ or ‘avo avo’, ‘Av babu’.

Part 2

Talk about the entire family.

Nuclear, grandparents on both sides, parent’s siblings and their family, in laws, grandchildren and others.

Gheru nAv, anghEr nAv and the uniqueness of our culture.

How to address the relatives.  The specialty of our language is having words for all kinds of relations.

We will focus on grammar not using the grammatical terms 😊

Part 3

mii, mogo,morae-  make sure students know the usage of these!

mii – ami

tU- tumi

theno-thenu–thelle, aski

morae, avrae, turae, torae, tegaya, tenGkayo

Help the students make sentences and paragraphs with these words(Places) and more!

Narration of stories or happenings.

Part 4

Three tenses (past, present and future)

change the verbs into different forms  so that it coordinates with  subject  in a sentence. 

Example:

kEr 

keritte,  keraeyo, keris, keraes, kerAEs.

kerartte,  kerariyo, keraris, keraras, kerararAEs.

keru, kerai, keran.

ker rhavvAi, ker rhAi. ker rhAn.

keruvAi, kera rhAn.

Part 5

Conjunction - kin,aski, hoyet, hoyet maeLLi, tevaL, kaere(cale, khaye, dhuve) vEngu,(vonnu), hAli, tikkAm, tii nhinAtto,   hoyeti (jiyeti, aveti, khayeti)meLLi,  phiir, phalcAtu, jiye(bise, khaye, diye, huTe, bhunje,dhame,dhuve)hAtur.

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

Example:

tenko, tET rhii, morjOL rhii, mii maeLLi, aski tenu, kAviyAjOL rhii

babuk, mAyik, sunAk, kAviyAk

teka kucci, teka gani, teka hAl, poLge lhekkAk, rhiyet meLLi.

Part 6

Negatives(distinction of ‘n’ as negative and plural)

khAna, bisuna, avna etc.,

Refer Radha bei’s original lesson on various negative forms(poltam.sourashtraassociation.org)

avai. avan

avan, avnAn

bovnA, bovnAn

Part 7

Adjectives/nouns of quality or quantity

mii vunno mOlu boTTo khadittE

mhoDo beTo

najjae poLLo

pheleT pillo

cokaD beTki

gheDi monnu

bhAr khoLTi

unco beTko

poLge yetunam

taTa pani

deTTu khEs

Part 8

Our rich culture, customs, and history.

Our story – how our ancestors migrated from north to south,

The reasons for our language being influenced by Tamil and Sanskrit.

Part 9

Active and passive actions.

kha       khavAd

biis      bisAD

refer to the lists in the 

polltam.sourashtraassociation.org for exhaustive lists of all these examples.

For learning long sentences,

speeches and comprehensions from 

literary passages and stories will be helpful.

Part 10

Complex sentences. 

Example:

jukku povs poDeya, hAlti jhADun muTTi viidum poDraes.

char pAnjc vAL angidi  jii maeLLa mogo pajae hoyae boggu abbeni.

mii khaiti, hAt dhuvti, khaLatto jiitte.

mullo pajae hoye savlo atto pajae nhii.

avlEt jilEt rhiyet gurtu kaLAi.

 refer to the example conversation in Sou.lessons.

Part 11

Passages for comprehension could be used from our literary books. e.g. niiti sambu, 

vAlmiiki RAmAyaNa sankSEpu, phaila pustavu, khenin etc.

This will show how to narrate happenings in daily life.

Etiquettes of using proper words in hospitality.

Encourage oral skills of communication by assigning topics.