Course Description
Oral fluency, written expression, and reading comprehension of Urdu. Taught through the use of vocabulary in simulated settings through repetition drills, frequent use of vocabulary, acting, and reading aloud. Augmented by reading and grammatical analysis of texts.
Athena Title
ELEMENT URDU I
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1- read texts of elementary level difficulty. 2- communicate and converse in Urdu on a variety of topics occurring in everyday situations. 3- write elementary narrative style paragraphs. 4- develop cultural awareness. Communicate Effectively through Speech To strengthen skills in oral expression, analysis, style, and interaction by means such as class reports, class discussion, and oral examinations.
Topical Outline
Week 1: Greetings and directions; First third of the alphabet. Nouns: gender, Week 2: Polite conversations, Second Third of the alphabet. Nouns: plurals Week 3: Family; Last third of the alphabet; Nouns: inflection Week 4: Invitations, taxis; Nouns: repetition, units of measure, parts of speech used as nouns Week 5: Food, restaurants; Pronouns: demonstratives, personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns Week 6: Relationships, origins, age; Pronouns: indefinite pronouns, the relative pronoun, repeated pronouns Week 7: Geography and people of Pakistan; Adjectives: marking, agreement, pronouns as adjectives, symmetrical adjectival word sets, adjective phrases Week 8: Talking about daily routine and work; Adjectives: comparison of adjectives, adjectives w/other grammatical functions, participles used as adjectives, possessive adjectives, numbers Week 9: Telling time, Adverbs: symmetrical adverbial word sets, adverbs of time and place, adverbs of manner, adverbs of degree Week 10: Days of the week; Adverbs: modal adverbs, Arabic adverbs, Week 11: Leisure activities, asking who? repeated adverbs, adverbs and irony Week 12: Customs, schooling in Pakistan, Postpositions: grammatical postpositions, spatio-temporary postpositions Week 13: Weather, months, dates; Postpositions: compound postpositions, postpositional sequences, expressing possession Week 14: Traveling by train, Verbs: forms of the verb, to be, denominative verbs, root-based verb forms, imperfect participle- based verb forms Week 15: Telephone, hotels; Verbs: perfective participle-based verb forms, infinitives, constructions with nominative case infinitives, constructions with oblique case infinitives Week 16: Settling bills, porters; Compound verbs: compound and simple verbs, intransitive vector verbs, transitive vector verbs
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus