Framework Expectations

Kannada 1: World Language Students are expected to:

• Acquire the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in an interdisciplinary manner.
• Develop interpersonal communication skills.
• Make an effort to understand instructions and express.
• Attain basic proficiency of speech by progressing from one word, two-words stage to production of multi-words and sentences with nouns, pronouns and verbs
• Express and respond reasonably both orally and in writing.
• Develop sensibility towards the Karnataka state culture and heritage.

Learning content:

• Creating phonemic awareness of different sounds, emerging from words in rhymes and audio clips.
• Tracing the curves as preliminary to writing phonemic and diacritic Kannada letters.
• Listening to rhymes, stories, and audio clips with expression.
• Framing simple words with two and more phonemic and diacritic Kannada letters.
• Recitation of rhymes for numbers familiarization
• Identification of objects of daily life and beyond by naming them through visual aids like charts.
• Answering in one or two words in response to questions asked in Kannada.
• Introduction to words representing nouns, pronouns and verbs.
• Counting numbers in Kannada up to hundred.
• Enhancement of pronunciation and listening comprehension.
• Introduction to basic sentence structures.
• Familiarization of Kannada festivals.
• Familiarization of earliest Kannada kingdoms.

Activities

• Curve tracing practice to help with writing phonemic and diacritic letters
• Coloring activities with letter distinct colors for identification of letters.
• Tracing of phonemic and diacritic letters and coloring activities.
• Practicing writing words and fill in the blanks activities for recognizing simple words with the help of pictures
• Use of simple rhyming words and practicing them.
• Pronunciation practice with the help or action based pictures
• Pronunciation practice, reciting rhymes and singing songs.
• Visual learning through Vocabulary Charts
• Drawing and labeling family members
• Describing a given picture
• Activities of fill in the blanks, rhyming words, and Crossword puzzles to enrich the vocabulary.
• Describe daily activities with hours, minutes and seconds, Calendar activities with days of the week.
• Reading weather charts and forecasts.
• Group projects
• Familiarizing the festivals and earliest Kingdoms of Karnataka in English
• Role-playing in Kannada.

Students are expected to:

• Read & interpret critically Kannada texts in different contexts
• Develop Kannada usage skills in both print & electronic mode
• Acquire a wide range of vocabulary through multidisciplinary topics.
• Understand increased complexity of sentence structures both in reading and writing.
• Express an awareness of social and environmental matters.

Learning content:

• Practicing double consonant Kannada letters.
• Constructing simple words with two or more double consonant Kannada letters.
• Advancement of pronunciation and listening comprehension.
• Responding in sentences to questions asked in Kannada.
• Counting numbers in Kannada beyond hundred.
• Application of idiomatic expressions
• Use of compound words and phrases
• Vocabulary related to Science, environment, and cultural matters
• Engaging in brief discussions and expressing opinions
• Presenting short essays for reading and comprehension.
• Introduction to advanced grammar details
• Introducing Kannada authors
• Counting numbers in Kannada beyond thousand
• Use of compound words and phrases
• Reading and comprehending short essays
• Creative and descriptive writing
• Field specific vocabulary (Science, Business, Arts)
• Advanced dialogues and professional communication
• Public performance and presentations
• Introduction to limericks
• Introduction to limericks

Skills

• Understanding longer dialogues and narratives
• Identifies, states, and understands feelings and emotions.
• Understands spoken language when the message is deliberately and carefully conveyed by a speaker
• Participating in discussions and public performances on various topics
• Comprehend a given text and seek clarification where needed
• Express and understand opinions
• Use strings of related sentences during conversation
• Reading short stories, articles, and essays
• Able to understand and retain most key ideas and some supporting details while reading and listening.
• Be able to read authentic texts from knowledge acquisition and gaining information perspective
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• Be able to use paragraphs based writing format
• Writing short essays, letters, and short stories
• Understanding complex spoken Kannada in various contexts
• Involving in conversations using a wide range of appropriate vocabulary.
• Ability to initiate, and conclude a conversation.
• Involving in discussion and support an opinion.
• Reading story books, newspapers, and academic texts

Activities

• Identification of words with consonants using visual charts
• Word puzzle for completing the double consonant words.
• Practicing the words with the help of visual aids.
• Creating own sentences with jumbled words to learn sentence structuring.
• Word completing activity by choosing appropriate double consonants.
• Familiarizing with geographical areas of Karnataka state.
• Familiarizing with seasons and months in Kannada.
• Comprehending short essays in Kannada.
• Exploring Kannada literature and poetry along with the introduction of Kannada authors.
• Appreciates multiple facets of Karnataka
• Fill in the blanks activities for choosing right consonants and double consonants.
• Fill in the blanks and match the following activities for understanding grammar.
• Identifying difficult words in a lesson to find out their meanings.
• Completing the essay by filling up the appropriate words.
• Constructing a story based on the given pictures
• Gaining understanding of prehistoric Karnataka
• Translation of English text to Kannada
• Reading and understanding poems in Kannada
• Interaction with native Kannada speakers (in person and virtual)
• Practicing Kannada transliteration using Standard English keyboard.

Students are expected to:

• Speaks about self, simple experiences; report events to peers, accurately and appropriately make connections and draw inferences.
• Understands the central idea and locates details in the text (familiar and unfamiliar).
• Writes simple messages, invitations, short paragraphs, letter (formal and informal), applications, personal diary, dialogue from story and story from a dialogue / conversation in Kannada
• Engages in creative writing e.g. composition of poems, jokes, short stories, etc.

Learning content:

• Enhancement of reading and writing proficiency
• Exposure to advanced grammar like compound words, parts of speech, and proverbs.
• Introduction to evolution of Kannada literature
• Introduction to Kannada poetic styles
• Familiarization of heroic women of Karnataka
• Knowing the Jnanpith awardees of Karnataka
• Introduction to Kannada proverbs
• Writing short essays
• Writing letters and small paragraphs
• Reporting about events
• Introduction to light literature
• Introduction to comparative reading
• Lessons on multidisciplinary topics like Travel, Environment, and Mindfulness
• Reading story books
• Introduction to Kannada riddles (ogatu)
• Introduction to different folk/traditional dance forms of Karnataka

Activities

• Finding out meaning to the difficult words extracted from dialogue based lesson
• Make your own sentences using the words given
• Writing short answers to questions
• Making a powerpoint presentation on Jnanpith awardees of Karnataka.
• Translating Kannada proverbs to English and writing their meanings
• Poem writing.
• Letter writing.
• Writing a short essay with the help of pictures given
• Associates different dance forms to their respective regions of Karnataka
• Imagining themselves to be quiz-master and framing questions for expected answers.
• Watching Kannada movies in grade level lessons.
• Practicing yoga and asanas to excel in academic performance.

Students are expected to:

• Recite poems, dialogues, speak and write language proficiently
• Involve in public speaking fluently
• Write reflective diary
• Write a Book Review.
• Engage in creative writing e.g. composition of poems, jokes, short stories, etc.
• Analyze the given text critically and report.
• Develop sensitivity towards their culture and heritage, aspects of contemporary life in Karnataka state.

Learning content:

Mastery of Grammar:

• · Nuances of Kannada grammar
• Creative and descriptive writing

Specialized Vocabulary:

• Technical and non technical vocabulary for various fields (science, business, finance, arts and others)

Complex Conversations:

• Advanced dialogues and professional communication
• Public speaking and presentations

Cultural Integration:

• Study of contemporary Kannada society and issues
• Advanced Kannada literature and cinema analysis
• In-depth exploration of Karnataka’s contributions to various fields

Activities:

• Participating in different activities like role play, poetry recitation, skit, drama, debate, speech, elocution, quiz, etc.,
• Converse in Kannada with Kannada speaking families and friends to share opinion and experience about a subject,
• Maintain a reflective diary in Kannada on ongoing work/assignment Prepare a set of questions for interviewing people from different professions such as shopkeeper, salesperson etc. and conduct an interview.
• Choose from amongst Kannada content like short films, news, quiz or debate on TV or on suggested websites and write a report on it.
• Select a Kannada book and write a review about it
• Select an author in Kannada to analyze the writing style and writing a report.
• Critically analyze any thesis in Kannada on a subject of interest and write opinion about associated reviews, data collection, and data analysis procedures.