Midterm Exam Preview

Here is a preview of the midterm exam. We will be reviewing all of this over the next 2 weeks.

ORAL EXAM:
For the oral exam, we will ask the student to translate 5 sentences into Hindi. The sentence formats are shown below. The nouns/verbs that they will need to know are also listed below.

Translate the following sentences into Hindi:

1) This ___ is ____ 

Examples: This fire is hot
(Yeh aag garam hai)

This nose is big
(Yeh naak baRaa hai)

2) That ____ is _____

Examples: That fruit is sweet
(Voh phal meethaa hai)

That fire is hot
(Voh aag garam hai)

3) The ____ is not ____

Examples: The water is not cold
(Paanii thanDaa nahiin hai)

The fire is not hot
(Aag garam nahiin hai)

4) I have a   ____

Examples: I have a book
(Mere paas kitaab hai)

I have fire
(Mere paas aag hai)

5) Where is the _____  ______ ?

Examples: Where is the small queen?
(ChhoTii raani kahaan hai?)

Where is the hot fire?
(Garam aag kahaan hai?)



NOUNS:
Aag (fire)
Haath (Hand)
Kaan (Ear)
Naak (Nose)
Ghar (House)
Phal (Fruit)
Gilaas (Glass)
ChiRiya (Bird)
Kitaab (Book)
Paanii (Water)
Raanii (Queen)
Kursii (Chair)

ADJECTIVES:
Good (Achchaa)
Sweet (MeeThaa)
Red (Laal)
Big (baRaa)
Small (ChoTaa)
Green (Haraa)
Black (Kaalaa)
Hot (Garam)
Cold (ThanDaa)


READING EXAM:

The student will be shown a selection of 5 of the following words, and they will be asked to write down the English meaning of the word:

कल              (tomorrow/yesterday)
दस           (ten)
घर         (home)
काला         (black)
बाल            (Hair)
चार            (Four)
दिल             (Heart)
गिलास          (Glass)
घड़ी           (Watch/Clock)
पानी          (Water)
खुश         (Happy)
चुप          (Quiet)
चूहा           (Mouse)
जूता       (Shoe)
पूजा        (Prayer)


WRITING EXAM:
The student will be given 5 of the following words in English, and they will be asked to write the words in Hindi:

Flower    फूल
Milk      दूध
Happy     खुश
Quiet     चुप
Three     तीन
Day   दिन
Heart     दिल
Red     लाल
Fire   आग
Four   चार
Nose    नाक
Home   घर

Week 16

   We started the class of with the "pass the parcel"-type game that we first played in Week 14.. The children had opportunities to earn more Monopoly money (Reminder: We'll be doing a bazaar in a future class, where the students will be able to spend their earned virtual money). The game was quite fun and ended up lasting for most of the class.
  We then went on to learn the following new words:

पूजा (pooja) (prayer)

सूरज (sooraj) (sun)

फूल (phool) (flower)

भालू (bhaaloo) (bear)

सूखा (sookha) (dry)

For homework: please say the above words in English, and have your child say the translation in Hindi. Then have your child practice writing the word.

NOTE: The midterm exam will be on Feb 11th. We will spend the next 2 weeks reviewing what we have learned so far. There will not be any specific homework. I would just ask your child to practice and review for the midterm. In a few days I will post what the students should expect on the exam.

Week 15

 This week we started off with a game of pictionary and then moved on to the next maatra. The ChhoTii "u" makes the sound you would hear in English words like "pull" and "full." The baRii "u" makes the sound you would hear in english words like "pool" and "fool"

पुल is prounced "pull"

पूल is pronounced "pool"

We learned the following new words:

आलू  "aaloo" (potato)
चूहा "chooha" (mouse)
जूता "joota" (shoe)
दूध "doodh" (milk)
झूला (jhoola) (swing)

For homework, please ask your child to practice writing the above words and memorize their definition.

Here is a joke
What did one milk say to the other?
"What's up, दूध "


After learning the word जूता  we watched the video and started learning the words to the chorus of "meraa joota hai japanii"

Weeks 13 and 14

 We reviewed the Chhotii "U' kii maatra words that we learned in Week 12:

खुश 
गुलाब 
गुड़िया 
साबुन 
कुरसी 

We also did ु related pages in the students' workbook.

 In Week 14, we learned the following new words:

कुछ (Some)
चुप (Quiet)
दुकान  (Store/Shop)
घुटना (Knee)

For homework, please review the words with your child. Please say the word in English and see if your child can then say the translation in Hindi. Then have your child practice the word.

We also started a new game. Each student starts out with $100 monopoly money. We then pass a bucket around the room, and music is playing in the background. When the music stops, the child holding the bucket takes a piece of paper out from the bucket. The piece of paper will have a question, and a money value attached to it. For example "Count from 1-20 in Hindi. $5". If the student performs the task correctly, they get $5.

We will hopefully play the above game every week, and the students will accumulate money. At the end of the semester, I will open up a "shop" in class where the students will be able to use the money to buy various nick-knacks.

Week 12

 Today we learned words with the छोटी उ की मात्रा. These were the words we went over:

खुश 
गुलाब 
गुड़िया 
साबुन 
कुरसी 

We also played a game of snakes and ladders,of course incorporating what we've learned (vocabulary, songs, spelling etc) in the game.
For homework, please show your child the following pictures. Ask them to identify the picture in Hindi, and then write the word (it's the words above)

Week 11

Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving!

Last Sunday we went over 4 new concepts:

In Front (aage)
Behind (peeche)
Up (Oopar)
Down (Neeche)

We practiced sentences using the above concepts.

For homework, please ask your child to try to speak the following sentences in Hindi:

1) The white elephant is in front
2)  I am behind
3) The black bird is up
4) You are down

We also played a game of pictionary. A student would draw something on the board, and the children had to guess the drawing in Hindi.

We sang the Aaj Mangalvaar Hai song, and watched a new song: "Aha tamaaTar baRaa hai mazedaar": (Starts at 6:56)

Next week we will learn the next maatra

Week 10

 Today we reviewed the बड़ी  ई  की मात्रा words from last week. We also learned the following new words:

कहानी 
मीठा 
गाड़ी 
तीन 
हाथी 

The students practiced making sentences with the above words. We emphasized trying to make sentences using the concepts of यह, वो , कहाँ , यहाँ , वहॉं , and क्या .

Examples:
मीठा फल कहाँ है?
मीठा फल यहां है
यह गुलाबी हाथी अजीब है

We played a game involving a pig and a crocodile. Team मगरमछ was the winner today.

Next the kids did Page 17 in their language workbook. Finally, we watched the आज मंगलवार है video (see previous week's post for the link).

For homework: 1) Please have your child do page 17b in the workbook
2) Have your kid watch the aaj mangalvaar video, and start to learn the words.
3) Quiz your child on the ई मात्रा words from this week and last week (definition, word recognition, and possibly spelling)

Here are the lyrics to the song:

Aaj mangalvaar hai
Choohe ko bukhaar hai
Aaj mangalvaar hai
Choohe ko bukhaar hai
Choohaa gayaa doctor ke paas
Doctor ne lagayii sooyii
chooha bola "Ooyii, ooyii, ooyii!"