Teaching materials
prepared by
Richard Delacy, Harvard University
Elementary Hindi exercises
A full set of weekly assignments
to go along
with the lessons in *
Elementary
Hindi* [*
about this book*]. The
assignments begin from the third week onwards (hence nine for the first
semester and thirteen for the second semester).
Elementary Urdu exercises
These exercises and the class worksheets (presented below) follow the
same structure and may be used together in a course. The weekly
exercise assignments are ordinarily completed at home and submitted in
class, and the worksheets can be used in classes in a number of ways
(the teacher can have the students read and translate them, or ask them
to come up with the Urdu on the sheets from English, then get them to
ask each other these questions, or make up similar questions). One
could teach the grammatical points that are introduced in each weekly
assignment, put them together with the worksheets to be employed in
class, and then use a textbook for grammatical instruction. (One
very suitable text is Asani and Hyder's *
Let's
Study
Urdu*.
)
Fall assignments: *01*;
*02*;
*03*; *04*;
*05*; *06*;
*07*; *08*;
*09*; *10*
Spring assignments: *01*;
*02*;
*03*; *04*;
*05*; *06*;
*07*; *08*;
*09*; *10*;
*11*
Urdu class worksheets
Here's a set of worksheets that can be used
in classes from the beginning of the year. Different
worksheets emphasize various points of grammar. My textbook: *
Read
and
Write
Urdu
Script*.
Elementary Urdu readings
Most of these readings have been taken from Usha
Jain and Karine Schomer's *
Intermediate
Hindi
Reader* and transliterated into the Nastaliq script. You will
find
extensive glossaries for them in the Reader, except for the
words that have been changed to reflect a style that approximates
literary Urdu. The words that have been substituted appear in a
serialized glossary at the end of the text. The texts here that are
not included in the Reader appear with their own
complete glossaries in Urdu.
*kuchh
bharat ke bare men*
(text
and
supplementary
glossary)
*panchtantra se: hoshyar
'aurat* (text
and supplementary glossary)
*panchtantra se: baGair dil
aur kan vala
gadha* (text and supplementary glossary)
*"Kaki," by Siyaram Gupta*
(text and
supplementary glossary)
*kuch shi'r o sha'iri* (text)
The "Lucknow Reader"
set (Devanagari)
*an anthology of
descriptive and literary materials mostly about Lucknow*
*the glossary for the
reader, part 1*;
*the glossary for the reader, part 2*
These are very large files; the
materials are carefully selected and arranged. It's for an intensive
intermediate Hindi course conducted during the summer in Lucknow many
years ago. A few pieces, such as the Manto story, don't pertain
particularly to Lucknow, but most do.
Intermediate Hindi and
Urdu materials, with glossaries
A Devanagari
text and serial glossary for the
film "Umrao Jan" (1981)
by
Sudha Joshi, provided by Richard Delacy with
her generous permission
Sudha Joshi taught Hindi in Melbourne, Australia for many years
in
several universities. Over that period she produced numerous
resources for the teaching of Hindi and also translated some devotional
poetry for publication.
The classic 1981 film version of Umrao Jan: *a
Devanagari list of characters*
a Devanagari text of the film: *part
1*; *part 2*
a Devanagari glossary for the film: *part 1*; *part 2*
A
Devanagari text and serial glossary for the
film
"Sholay" (1975)
[A word about *
Elementary
Hindi* (textbook and workbook): This work is based on fifteen years
of teaching experience, and is a comprehensive introduction to the
language. It's unique in the manner that it introduces the Devanagari
script, with no Roman letters (apart from when individual characters
are introduced) and above all in the order in which grammatical
concepts are introduced. After introducing the script in the first six
lessons, and then nominal declensions and case in lessons 7 and 8, in
lessons 9-14 it focuses on the most important building blocks for
verbal constructions, the imperfect and perfect participles. In other
words, everything that can be done with the imperfect participle is
contained in lessons 9-11, and everything that can be done with the
perfect participle in lessons 12-14 (except their use as adjectives and
adverbs, that is). No other book focuses on these participles in such a
systematic manner.