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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2024

Iago Gocheleishvili
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Listen and repeat the words aloud. Repeat each word a few times until you can easily pronounce it.

Complete the sentences with the given words.

Listen to Sam talk about his family and house. Based on his words, complete the sentences with the words for colors.

For each item below, say what color you imagine when you hear that word. Write and prepare to say the item and your color aloud, for example

Prepare to ask and answer the following questions in Persian in class. Before coming to class say your sentences a few times aloud until you can easily pronounce them.

Official

Bicycle

  • (1) What is the color of your house?

  • (2) What is the official color of your state?

  • (3) What is the color of your dorm?

  • (4) What is the color of your bicycle?

  • (5) What is the color of the textbook for Persian class?

  • (6) What is the color of your favorite shoes?

  • (7) What is the color of the bus that goes to the university?

  • (8) Do you like black or green tea?

  • (9) What is your favorite color?

  • (10) What color is indigo?

Print out an image of the flag of your home state and bring it to class. Tell the class briefly about your state and describe its state colors.

Start by saying the name of your state, its location in the country, its capital city and in which city in the state you live. Then show and describe the colors on the flag of your state. If the flag has symbols and images, tell the class the colors of those symbols.

Useful words:

Listen to the announcement of items on sale at a clothing store. Next to each item, write the color in which it is available on sale.

Listen to Neema and then to Nick as they describe what they are wearing. Based on what you hear, decide for what season of the year each person is dressed. Explain in Persian your decision.

Write down in Persian a list of clothing items that you most frequently wear. Next to each item write the colors you have them in. Prepare to say in Persian in class what you have written.

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Modern Persian, Elementary Level
beh farsi begoo
, pp. 235 - 268
Publisher: Anthem Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Iago Gocheleishvili, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: Modern Persian, Elementary Level
  • Online publication: 18 December 2024
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  • Iago Gocheleishvili, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: Modern Persian, Elementary Level
  • Online publication: 18 December 2024
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