Hindi 1: Lesson 1b
Mix ‘n’ match
• Activity: As you come in you will be given a card
with a Hindi character on.
• Now you have to wander around the room until
you find a person with a character that makes a
pair with yours.
• For instance if your character is ‘a’ it would
match ‘aa’ or if its ‘ka’ it would match ‘kha’, or
perhaps you could find another matching pair.
• At the end the teacher will call on some pairs to
show their characters and tell us what they are
and why they match.
• First: we will go through dialogue 1b from
the textbook together as a group.
• Second, we will split into groups and
practice reading and pronouncing the
dialogue.
• Third, the teacher will call on some of the
groups to present the dialogue to the
class.
Show & Tell
• Some of you will get cards with pictures of
things on them.
• Some of you will get cards with Hindi
characters on them.
• You have to move round the class room till
you find a matching pair for a picture and
the character that represents the sound
that begins the word for that thing.
Hindi Sounds
• Hindi sounds: we will go through the Hindi
script and sounds and practice speaking:
Hindi (Devanagari) Characters
अa आā
इi ईī
एe
ऐ ai ओ o औ au
क ka ख kha ग ga घ gha
झ
च ca छ cha ज ja jha
ट ṭa ठ ṭha ड ḍa ढ ḍha
त ta थ tha द da ध dha
भ
प pa फ pha ब ba bha
उu ऊū ऋṛ
अं aṃ अः aḥ
ङ ṅa
ञ ña
ण ṇa
न na
म ma
• Activity: draw any character that you want so that it
covers at least half a sheet of A4 paper (i.e. big).
• Get up and walk around. Ask each other whether you
can recognise the character.
Note the transliteration above is of the pronunciation not the spelling
• Sit down, the teacher will ask some people to show their
characters to the class.
आप कौन हैं? Who are you? (15 mins)
• Write out and hold onto the character that begins
your name and move round the class, see if you
can now remember each others names, use the
characters as hints, go up to somebody and
guess their name saying:
Then they might reply.
or they might say something like this.
Additional Characters & Sounds
• We will go through some additional Hindi
characters and sounds that are found at
the end of the Hindi alphabet.
(10 mins)
Character bingo!
• Activity: the teacher will say ten sounds like: क,
ख, ka, kha, etc
• You write the characters down, in either Hindi or
in accurate transliteration (with the dots etc. to
show ṭa ta etc.
• Then the teacher will write the correct characters
on the board.
• We will now discover how many you recognised
correctly, and remembered how to write.
Yes or No?
• Activity: your teacher will show you some
pictures and ask you questions on this
model.
• Then we will discuss how to say and write
the nasal ‘n’ sounds in Hindi.
• Activity: the class will divide up into groups
of about three people per group.
• Each group will be given the task of writing
out a series of letters from the Hindi
alphabet, as nice big characters.
• Then group by group we will stand up and
show our characters and say them out
loud. In sequence if possible!
Vocabulary check
• Your teacher will say ten words in Hindi
from the vocabulary for the first lesson.
• You have to try and recognise what they
are and write them down.
• You can write either in (accurate)
transliteration and/or in Hindi script.
• Then the teacher will write them on the
board and you can check how many you
got right.