Weekly Syllabus for Beginning Tamil

(For the month of October)

Week of October 5th to 9th: (Class days: 5th and 7th)

Class work: a) Existential sentences - Sentences with locative expressions, Making existential sentences with negative marker, c) Reading from the reader and d) Spoken Tamil practice involving existential senteces - Talk about location of objects, residence, places etc.

Homework: Assignment No. 1. -Translating sentences with the verb meaning 'be'

Reading for next week: HyperCard software: lessons 3 and 4

Quiz on Wednesday: Covering "existential sentences", and Reader sentences.

Week of October 12th to 16th (Class days: 12th and 14th)

Class work: a) Sentences with imperative expression, b) Negative imprative, c) reading from reader and d) Spoken Tamil practive involving imperative expressions - talk about making an order - do something/don't do something etc.

Homework: Assignment No. 2 - Writing exercise practicing imperative expressions

Reading for next week: Hypercard stack focusing on imperative expressions.

Week of October 19th to 21st (Class days: 19th and 21st)

Class work: a) Use of infinitive form of verb and making imperative and existential verbs. Practice more verbs.

Wednesday Quiz (21st): (45 minutes)

Assignment: Sentences covering imperative expressions and existential expressions.

Reading: Hypercard stack concentrating on infinitives and modals.

Week of October 26th to 30th (Class days 26th and 28th)

Class work: a) Working on modal expressions - necessity, probability and capability modal.

Assignment: Working on sentences involving modal expressions.

Reading: Reading from the reader and more modal expressions.