Intensive Elementary Hindi

Summer 2008

Homework Assignments

NB: All homework is to be done and turned in at the beginning of each class on the day it appears on the schedule.

Week 2.

• For Monday, June 30:

Memorize the verb ‘to be’ (pg. 21) very thoroughly, so that you can recite it quickly and easily.

Read carefully Teach Yourself Hindi (TYH), pg. 22-32 (Unit 1b-2a).

On lined paper, copy Dialogue 1b (pg. 22) and 2a (pg. 29-30).

Review and memorize all new vocabulary in the boxes on pg. 20 &23.

Finally, translate the following sentences into Hindi:

I am [write your name].

You [formal] are English.

He [singular] is Indian.

That is a boy.

This is a car.

Is he [formal] English?

She is okay.

Are you [familiar] okay?

Is that car Indian?

No, it is Japanese.

• For Tuesday, July 1:

Review TYH 1b-2a, and do Exercise 1b (TYH, pg. 27) and 2a.2 (pg. 35, bottom) on lined paper.

Read TYH 3a (pg. 39-43).

Study for Quiz 2 on होना and vocabulary announced in class.

• For Wednesday, July 2:

Read TYH 3b (pg. 43-46).

Do the written exercises on postpositions and oblique nouns handed out in class.

Memorize the vocabulary in the vocabulary boxes on pg. 30 & 40.

• For Thursday, July 3:

Study for Test 2 on TYH, Units 1-3.

Read Dialogue 4a in TYH (pg. 49-50), and Section 4.1 (pg. 51-52).

• For Friday, July 4:

NO CLASS: JULY 4 HOLIDAY.