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An Intensive Course in Bengali (An Old and Rare Book)

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Item Code: NAK951
Author: Krishna Bhattacharya
Publisher: Central Institute Of Indian Languages, Mysore
Language: Bengali Text With English Translation
Edition: 1994
ISBN: 8173420300
Pages: 670
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 9.0 inch x 7.0 inch
Weight 840 gm
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Book Description
Introduction

Language learning is a complex activity. Its success is largely dependant on the method, medium, material and the motivation of the learner. Furthermore, the highly organised curriculum and planning help to attain the educational goal easily and quickly.

The present intensive course is meant for developing the listening and speaking skills of the learner. Along with this book several other reading and writing materials like the Phonetic Reader, the Script Book, the semantically classified recall vocabulary and film strips and cassettes for teaching Bengali script and structures, prepared by the Central Institute of Indian Languages Training Programme may be used for the benefit of the learner.

The present book is the prescribed instruction material for the basic course of the Begali language Training Programme of the Central Institute of Indian Languages. The basic course consists of approximately 450 clock hours of instruction with prime emphasis on the spoken language. The present Intensive Course covers approximately 300 clock hours of instruction. This course is equally useful for any generalised second language Bengali teaching learning programme.

The principles that underline this Intensive Course are as follows:

1. Concentration on one objective. at a time: the teacher or the instructor presents the teaching materials in such a way that the learner concentrates on one structure or one teachable item at a time.

2. Selection, gradation and systamatisation of linguistic patterns: The numbers and the kinds of structures are decided with great caution on the basis of objectives of the Basic Course. Then these structures are controlled, systematised and graded from simple to difficult on the basis of the morphological and syntactic complexity. In this connection it should be borne in mind that the structures presented in this cannot be claimed as exhaustive. The structures introduced here are basic and with the acquiring of these structures the learner' will be able to manage day to day activities in a Bengali speaking community.

3. The intensive instruction consists of four basic step : presentation, explanation, repetition and transfer.

4. The teacher who introduces the linguistic patterns can do the classroom drilling. But depending on the intensive nature of the course it may be necessary to divide the responsibilities between separate persons. With this view in mind the teachable patterns are inserted in the body of the lesson and the drills and exercises are presented separately after the lesson.

The present book fulfils the following objectives of the basic courses offered at the Regional Language Centres of the Central Institute of Indian languages.

(i) To be able to form sentences orally from given patterns and lexical items.

(ii) To be able to converse with the teacher and with fellow trainees on specified topics under controlled situations.

(iii) To be able to narrate special events and topics orally.

(iv) To be able to read simple material and daily news paper.

(v) To be able to write simple free compositions and guided complex compositions.

Among the materials for teaching and learning Bengali as a second language so published, one has to refer the Introduction to Bengali, Part I accompanied by tapes, published from East- West Centre Press, Honululu, 1965. by Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Somdev Bhattacharji and Subas Chatterjee. There are two other books as following materials, viz., Introduction to Bengali, part 11 : Introductory Bengali Reader by Somdev Bhattacharji and Bengali Prose Reader by Edward C. Dimok, Jr. and others.

The present work adopts the merits of the book prepared by 'Dirnock, Bhattacharji and Chatterjee, but differs from it in several ways in terms of selection, gradation and presentation. It provides the learner with many different types of conversations in natural setting and presents various types of drills. As a result it leads the learner to use the language more functionally. The book prepared by Dimock and others is mainly meant for foreign students whose mother tongue is English. The present book primarily meant for Indian language speakers other than Bengali, is wider in scope. Lastly, to prepare the present book the authors have aimed at a compromise between purely structural and purely cultural orientation. There are exercises and evaluation-cum-tests as additional items for the improvement of the competence of the learner.

As regards the teaching method to be adopted, the Central Institute of Indian Languages is highly convinced by theory and experience that no single method can explain and guide second language learning as a developmental process. . To attain the goal different flexible and many-sided procedures and techniques may be employed. . Therefore, the method adopted in our language teaching programmes is 'eclectic' incorporating insights from all available sources.

The type of language used in this book is the Standard Colloquial Bengali which is spoken by a large number of people in all over Bengal.

This intensive course consists of 25 units as mentioned in the contents, which are further subdivided into 94 lessons. Each unit contains two or more lessons. Each lesson consists of atleast one grammatical, structure and the whole unit covers a group of related grammatical structures. So far as the time limit of each lesson is concerned, it will take about 3 clock hours of instruction in the classroom. The teachable patterns of the previous lessons are reinforced in the subsequent lessons. At the end of every unit there is a review lesson which exploits in a single place all the structures introduced so far.

The body of the lesson is mainly conversational. But these are also a few pieces of narration.

Each lesson is composed of five parts, a dialogue or a narrative, drills, exercises, vocabulary and grammatical notes in this order. The content of the body of the lesson is determined on the basis of the varied situations that the trainees are likely to be faced with while learning the language and that they may have to convey to their students as teachers. The sociocultural aspects are also taken into account in the selection of the contents.

In the body of the lesson there is free English translation of the sentences to provide the learner with a general comprehension of the content.

The drills are designed in such a way that through pattern practice the learner is trained to reproduce the patterns with automaticity. All the structures introduced in a particular lesson form part of the drills. The various types of drills included in this book are variation drill, repetition drill, build-up drill, expansion drill, response drill, substitution drill, transformation drill and completion drill.

 

Contents

 

    FOREWORD v
    EDITOR'S NOTE vii
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT viii
    INTRODUCTION XIIl
    REFRENCES xviii
    ABBREVIA TIONS XIX
    BENGALI ALPHABET xx
UNIT LESSON     PAGE
1 1 Teacher-student Introduction 1
  2 In the Department 6
  3 Photo 13
  4 Classroom objects 18
  5 Revised Lesson 23
2 6 Enquiry and description 29
  7 Family 43
  8 Body Parts 58
  9 Revised Lesson 69
3 10 Whereabouts of the, students 75
  11 Classroom articles 90
  12 Hostel 98
  13 Rented house 110
  14 Kerala 117
4 15 Visit to Puri 122
  16 In the Market 135
  17 Programme of yesterday 142
5 18 Invitation to dinner 147
  19 Buying a Saree 162
  20 Shopping 168
  21 Delhi programme 177
  22 Puja holiday 185
  23 Picnic 191
6 24 Visit to film 196
  25 Booking Railway Ticket 200
  26 Preparation for an outing 207
  27 Wishes and Commands 214
7 28 A Sunday routine 223
  29 Finding a doctor 238
  30 Teaching Bengali in school 245
  31 Going to teacher's house 251
  32 Subhas Chandra Bose 258
  33 Examination 262
  34 Revised Lesson 268
8 35 Durga Puja 272
  36 Milk man 279
  37 Revised Lesson 287
9 38 Talking about a tour programme 291
  39 In the teacher's house 299
  40 Preparation for a Function 304
  41 Examination 311
  42 Revised Lesson 316
10 43 Conversation on Bengali poetry 322
  44 Visit to Planetorium 329
  45 Enquiry about friend 334
  46 Madras 338
  47 Revised Lesson 344
11 48 Cricket Match 349
  49 Strike 355
  50 Revised Lesson 362
12 51 Literary Gathering 366
  52 Conversation 375
  53 Revised Lesson 383
13 54 Football Match 386
  55 Rainy Day 392
14 56 Information about the residence 396
  57 A mother and her daughter 402
  58 Staying at Bhubaneswar 407
  59 Visit to Puri 413
  60 Revised Lesson 418
15 61 Two friends 423
  62 Request for buying something 430
  63 Order of master to a servant 435
  64 Request for book 439
  65 Going to "the market 444
16 66 Learning a new language 451
  67 Goin~ to cinema 459
  68 Saraswathi Puja 463
  69 Vishnupur 469
  70 Revised Lesson 474
17 71 Conversation between a grocer and a 479
18 72 Two Brothers 488
  73 Calcutta 495
19 74 Hotel accomodation 502
  75 Rainy day 509
  76 Revised Lesson 516
20 77 An accident 522
  78 Story (Two friends and bear) 528
  79 Conversation between two friends 536
  80 Revised Lesson 540
21 81 Arrangements for entertainment 544
  82 Students' strike 551
22 83 A rainy day 556
  84 Advice to the language learners 563
  85 F ear of the theft 569
  86 Revised Lesson 575
23 87 Experience of ' a Language centre 579
  88 Red Fort 588
  89 Revised Lesson 592
24 90 Invitation to visit a village in West Bengal at the Puja time 597
  91 Preparation of a marriage ceremony 605
  92 Revised Lesson 610
25 93 Request to preside over a meeting 614
  94 Revised Lesson 621
  95 Visit to Cuttack 625

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