Week 3 Learning Plan

[Taylor Napier-Runnels]

Below is my learning plan for the next week. Hopefully this plan is not too ambitious but I think all of my objectives are essential to learning Farsi and will be important in working on my communication with others. The one objective I am extremely excited for is being able to watch a scene from the movie Kandahar, which is in Farsi, in order to see how many words I can pick up and to work on recognizing when words end and begin/spaces between words.Learning PlanObjectives• Learn the numbers by 10s through 100• Learn interrogatives and be comfortable using them in conversation• Learn how to tell time and the different times of day• Learn 5 adjectives and be able to use them in a conversation• Learn 5 prepositions• Learn pronouns and rules for verb conjugation in the present tense• Be able to listen to a chapter of the movie Khandahar and identify word spacing, greetings and interrogativesResources• Language Partner• Other classmates• BYKI flashcards• Modern Persian text book• Diigo Links• Other classmatesKandahar movieTasks• To learn the numbers I will study the diigo link and make flashcards. The flashcards will have English on one side and then the transliteration, script and symbol of the number on the back.• Practice reading phone numbers in Farsi to better learn the numbers• Study the interrogatives through both flashcards and oral repetition• Practice reading time in Farsi by looking at the clock during classes or at my cell phone between classes• Make flashcards for 5 more adjectives and practice using them with the language partner and classmates• Make flashcards for 5 prepositions in order to learn them• Make a list of pronouns as well as the rules of verb conjugation• Make a table of pronouns and the appropriate verb conjugation rules with them• Watch the 5th chapter of Khandahar where a variety of interrogatives and greetings are used to work on my listening comprehensionEvaluations• Be able to ask someone how old they are, understand there age and then respond appropriately when asked how old I am• Be able to hold a simple conversation that allows me to greet someone, ask them how they are and respond with newly learned adjectives, ask them what their name is and respond when asked what my name is, where they are from and respond with where I am from and properly say good bye• Be able to ask what time it is, understand the response and be able to answer the question what time is it• Be able to greet people according to the time of day and tell them what time of day it is• Have a language partner take an object and place it in relation to another object and be able to say where the object is in relation to the other• Be able to describe how I am feeling, my language partner is feeling and how my other classmates are feeling in order to practice pronoun useBe able to recognize 2 greetings and 2 interrogatives in the scene from Kandahar