Practice worksheets for Preparatory School - 1. Varna/Matra

 Hindi is highly phonetic; the pronunciation of any Hindi word can be reliably predicted from their written form which is in strong contrast to English.

I’m posting a series of practice worksheets to test the progress of young ones as to understand how well they have understood the concept of Hindi vowels (Swar) and Consonants (Vyanjans), Matras and the words.

It’s always better to have a group activity first to recapitulate what they have learnt and then start with the practice sheets.

The kids have to pronounce the names of images related to each alphabet/matra and have to connect the correct image.

 I’m sure kids are familiar with all the images, which are from the earlier worksheets posted here on the blog. e.g.  Pictorial varnamala, Swar Vyanjan matra, shabd banao etc.  

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Reading Hindi with IPA symbols - Preparatory/Primary school - ओ- o [o:] , औ – au [ᴔ: ]/ [ɔː]

 In this post is the reading matter of ओ - o /[ o:]  and औ - au/ [ᴔ: ]/ [ɔː] matra words and sentences with IPA symbols to help non-Hindi
speaking kids.

ओ – o /[ o:] as sound of short "o" in go, no, low, bow                                         

औ  - au/ [ᴔ: ]/ [ɔː] similar to the sound of "ow" in owl

                                        ought - awt (if pronounced as single syllable)                                                

Please keep in mind that…

·       Many consonants which are part of the Hindi language do not exist in English. ड़/ढ़ are difficult to pronounce in English.

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Reading Hindi with IPA symbols - Preparatory/Primary school - ए- e [e:] , ऐ – ai [ɛ:]

 In this post is the reading matter of ए- e [e:] and ऐ – ai [ɛ:]  matra words and sentences with IPA symbols to help non-Hindi speaking kids.

 ए – e / [e:] is as the sound of short  “e” in  egg,  bed,  merry or "a" in  age,  aim,     came (short vowel)

    ऐ  - ai / [ɛ:] as the sound of  long  "a" in  at,  attic (Long vowel)                                                            

I repeat again while helping the kids to read, keep the following two points in mind....

·       👀Many consonants which are part of the Hindi language do not exist in English. ड़/ढ़ are difficult to pronounce in English.

·    👀   Following consonants with a नुक्ता (dot) under the alphabet is part of Urdu and Persian words. eg. क़लाम, ख़ान, ग़ैर जहाज़, ज़ीरा, फ़नकार

           क़      ख़      ग़      ज़      फ़     ड़      ढ़

          [q]     [x]      [ɣ]     [z]      [f]     [ɽ]    [ɽʱ]    (IPL)

 

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Visheshan (Adjective) - Primary school (classes 1,2,3)

 Adjectives are known as Visheshan ( विशेष गुण) in Hindi.

Visheshan is ‘describing words’ which describe a person, place, thing or state. In other words, they describe the action, state, quality or quantity of nouns/pronouns.

It’s important to remember that the noun word associated with an adjective is called विशेष्य.

Without the presence of a noun word or विशेष्य, the use of adjectives is worthless.

In Primary classes, we introduce four types of Adjectives –

1.   गुणवाचक विशेषण (Adjective of Quality)

2.   संख्यावाचक विशेषण (Adjective of Number)

3.   परिमाणवाचक विशेषण (Adjective of Quantity)

4.   सार्वनामिक/संकेतवाचक विशेषण (Demonstrative Adjective )

Earlier I had posted about Adjectives/Visheshan for Preparatory classes. I’m sharing the link to that post…

https://balrachna.blogspot.com/2020/02/visheshan-adjective-3-describing-words.html

In this post I am uploading notes along with the practice worksheets to help the teachers/parents to help their kids to understand the concept of Adjectives /Visheshan

In case of any queries feel free to get in touch. Happy teaching!!!!

Reading Hindi with IPA symbols - Preparatory/Primary school - u[ʊ] उ, oo/ ū [ʊ:] ऊ

 In this post is the reading matter of उ- u[ʊ] and ऊ – ū [ʊ:]  matra words and sentences with IPA symbols to help non-Hindi speaking kids.

    उ – u / [ʊ] is short  "u" in put, push, pull. (short vowel)

  ऊ  - oo, ū / [ʊ:] as the sound of  long "u/oo” in soon, spoon, fool (Long vowel)

                                                            

I point it out again while helping the kids to read, keep the following two points in mind....

·       👀Many consonants which are part of the Hindi language do not exist in English. ड़/ढ़ are difficult to pronounce in English.

·    👀   Following consonants with a नुक्ता (dot) under the alphabet is part of Urdu and Persian words. eg. क़लाम, ख़ान, ग़ैर जहाज़, ज़ीरा, फ़नकार

           क़      ख़      ग़      ज़      फ़     ड़      ढ़

          [q]     [x]      [ɣ]     [z]      [f]     [ɽ]    [ɽʱ]    (IPL)

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