Weekly Syllabus for Beginning Tamil

Second Semester - Spring 1999

(For the month of January)

Week of January 11 to 16th: (Class days: 11th and 13th)

Class work: Review first semester topics; working on Modal expressions: use of muTiyum, veeNTum, laam and corresponding negative forms, listening to conversations on Macintosh Hypercard software.

Homework: Assignment No. 1. -Translating sentences with modal expressions

Reading for next week: HyperCard software lessons on modal expressions, reading from the reader

Week of January 18 to 23th: (Class day: 20th (18th - Martin Luther King day))

Class work: a) Practice expressions with modal forms, b) use of conversations illustrating modal expressions, c) Class work on writing sentences and expressions focussing on modal expressions.

Homework: Assignment No. 2. -Translating sentences with modal and dative constructions

Reading for next week: HyperCard software lessons on modal expressions, reading from the reader.

Week of January 25th to 30th (Class days: 25th and 27th)

Class work: a) First quiz on 25th covering Modal expressions (45 minutes). b) Introducing to Past tense, c) use of class1 to 3 (week verbs), c) listening to conversations in Macintosh Hypercard software.

Homework: Assignment No. 2 - Writing exercise practicing past tense forms.

Reading for next week: Hypercard stack focusing past tense forms, reading from the reader.