The Routledge Introductory Persian Course

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Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Lesson One
Lesson Two
Lesson Three
Lesson Four
Lesson Five
Lesson Six
Lesson Seven
Lesson Eight
Lesson Nine
Lesson Ten
Lesson Eleven
Lesson Twelve
Lesson Thirteen
Lesson Fourteen
Lesson Fifteen
Persian–English Glossary
English–Persian Glossary
Index
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The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course: Farsi Shirin Ast, Book Two
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Lesson One: Which sport are you interested in?
Reading: football
Grammar: simple sentences
Media exercises: general media vocabulary
Colloquial/written Persian: Jalal Al-e Ahmad, “Preparing the Nation”
Let’s know more: compound verbs
Let’s get to know Iran better: script
Lesson Two: Which issues normally cause divorce?
Reading: divorce in Iran’s tribal communities
Grammar: simple sentences (cont’d)
Media exercises: politics and government
Colloquial/written Persian: Jalal Al-e Ahmad, “The Samanu Cookers”
Let’s know more: Forugh Farrokhzad
Let’s get to know Iran better: wind tower
Lesson Three: What do you know about Iran’s ancient sites?
Reading: Tepe Marlik
Grammar: subject and predicate / simple and compound sentences
Media exercises: elections
Colloquial/written Persian: Goli Taraghi, “Hibernation”
Let’s know more: morphology
Let’s get to know Iran better: mud brick
Lesson Four: What are the advantages and disadvantages of life in the capital?
Reading: Tehran
Grammar: exclamatory sentences
Media exercises: security and conflict
Colloquial/written Persian: Moniru Ravanipur, “The Long Night”
Let’s know more: Fereydun Moshiri
Let’s get to know Iran better: motorway
Lesson Five: Which do you prefer: poetry or prose?
Reading: Nizami Ganjavi
Grammar: chon/cho
Media exercises: law and order
Colloquial/written Persian: Zoya Pirzad, “The Acrid Taste of Persimmons”
Let’s know more: morpheme types
Let’s get to know Iran better: column
Lesson Six: What are the pros and
cons of travelling by train? Reading: railways
Grammar: Arabic broken plurals
Media exercises: human rights
Colloquial/written Persian: Ahmad Mahmud, “Scorched Earth”
Let’s know more: Sadeq Hedayat
Let’s get to know Iran better: pigeon tower
Lesson Seven: What do you do to protect the environment?
Reading: Iran’s natural geography
Grammar: compound nouns
Media exercises: economics
Colloquial/written Persian: Simin Daneshvar, “The Life of the Alley”
Let’s know more: affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
Let’s get to know Iran better: fire temple
Lesson Eight: What do commercial centres look like in your country?
Reading: bazaar
Grammar: compound adjectives
Media exercises: trade and industry
Colloquial/written Persian: Sadeq Hedayat, “The Darkroom”
Let’s know more: the folklore of the people of Iran
Let’s get to know Iran better: traditional marketplace
Lesson Nine: How many of Iran’s provinces do you know?
Reading: Mazandaran
Grammar: past participle
Media exercises: science and technology
Colloquial/written Persian: Goli Taraghi, “Birth”
Let’s know more: affixes (inflectional and derivational)
Let’s get to know Iran better: kilim
Lesson Ten: What is mourning?
Reading: symbolic coffin
Grammar: reported speech
Media exercises: energy
A classical Persian prose text: The Tarikh-i Bayhaqi
Let’s know more: sayings
Let’s get to know Iran better: pilgrim
Lesson Eleven: Who is your favourite poet?
Reading: Firdawsi’s Shahnama
Grammar: passive
Media exercises: the environment
A classical Persian prose text: the Qabusnama
Let’s know more: inflectional affixes
Let’s get to know Iran better: synagogue
Lesson Twelve: What are the main characteristics of people’s clothing in your country?
Reading: men’s and women’s clothing in Iran
Grammar: the tense and person of the verb
Media exercises: development and aid
A classical Persian prose text: the Kimia-yi sa‘adat
Let’s know more: Omar Khayyam
Let’s get to know Iran better: potter
Lesson Thirteen: What day of the year is New Year’s Day in Iran?
Reading: the Noruz table setting
Grammar: subjunctives
Media exercises: culture
A classical Persian prose text: the Marzubannama
Let’s know more: Hafiz
Let’s get to know Iran better: Hafiz’s tomb
Lesson Fourteen: Can natural disasters be prevented?
Reading: famine in Iran
Grammar: conditionals
Media exercises: sport
A classical Persian prose text: the Maqamat-i Hamidi
Let’s know more: Sa‘di
Let’s get to know Iran better: alley
Lesson Fifteen: What do you know about Islam?
Reading: Islam in Iran
Grammar: impersonal constructions
Media exercises: common media vocabulary
A classical Persian prose text: the Kalila va Dimna
Let’s know more: compounding
Let’s get to know Iran better: mosque
Persian–English Glossary
English–Persian Glossary
Index of grammatical terms