The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course - Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Lesson One

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Which sport are you interested in?

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Reading: football

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Grammar: Arabic broken plural

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Media exercises: general media vocabulary

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Colloquial/written Persian: Zoya Pirzad, The Acrid Taste of Persimmons

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Let's know more: compound verbs

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Let's get to know Iran better: script

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Lesson Two

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What issues normally cause divorce?

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Reading: divorce in Iran's tribal communities

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Grammar: Compound nouns and adjectives

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Media exercises: politics and government

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Colloquial/written Persian: Moniru Ravanipur, The Long Night

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Let's know more: Forugh Farrokhzad

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Let's get to know Iran better: wind tower

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Lesson Three

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What do you know about Iran's ancient sites?

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Reading: Tepe Marlik

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Grammar: Review of tenses (1): Past tense

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Media exercises: elections

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Colloquial/written Persian:

Goli Taraghi, Hibernation

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Let's know more: morphology

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Let's get to know Iran better: mud brick

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Lesson Four

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What are the advantages and disadvantages to life in the capital?

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Reading: Tehran

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Grammar: Review of tenses (2): Present tense

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Media exercises: security and conflict

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Colloquial/written Persian: Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Samanu-cooking

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Let's know more: Fereydun Moshiri

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Let's get to know Iran better: freeway

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Lesson Five

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Which do you prefer...

Biographie:

The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course, second edition, is an intermediate level Persian textbook written specifically for English-speaking university students that incorporates the guidelines of the American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages and those of the Common European Framework of Reference in its tasks and activities.

The diversity of the texts in this textbook helps to familiarize students with a range of literary genres and provides them with the necessary building blocks to continue reading on their own.

One of the distinctive features of this book is its content-based and task-based approach to learning the language...

Sommaire:
poetry or prose?

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Reading: Nizami Ganjavi

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Grammar: Review of tenses (3): Future tense - Imperative

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Media exercises: law and order

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Colloquial/written Persian: Iraj Pezeshkzad, My Uncle Napolean

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Let's know more: morpheme types

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Let's get to know Iran better: column

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Lesson Six

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What are the pros and cons of traveling by train?

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Reading: railways

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Grammar: Tense and person of the verb

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Media exercises: Human Rights

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Colloquial/written Persian: Ahmad Mahmud, Scorched Earth

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Let's know more: Sadeq Hedayat

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Let's get to know Iran better: pigeon tower

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Lesson Seven

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What do you do to protect the environment?

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Reading: Iran's natural geography

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Grammar: Adjectival clause

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Media exercises: economics

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Colloquial/written Persian: Simin Daneshvar, The Life of the Alley

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Let's know more: affixes (prefixes and suffixes)

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Let's get to know Iran better: fire temple

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Lesson Eight

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What do commercial centres look like in your country?

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Reading: bazaar

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Grammar: Exclamatory sentences

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Media exercises: trade and industry

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Colloquial/written Persian: Sadeq Hedayat, The Darkroom

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Let's know more: the folklore of the people of Iran

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Let's get to know Iran better: traditional market

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Lesson Nine

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Who many of Iran's provinces do you know?

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Reading: Mazandaran

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Grammar: past participle - Passive

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Media exercises: science and technology

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Colloquial/written Persian:

Ghazaleh Alizadeh, The Edrisis' House

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Let's know more: affixes (inflectional - derivational)

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Let's get to know Iran better: kilim

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Lesson Ten

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What is mourning?

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Reading: symbolic coffin

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Grammar: Causative verbs

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Media exercises: energy

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A classical Persian prose text: Tarikh-e Bayhaqi

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Let's know more: sayings

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Let's get to know Iran better: pilgrim

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Lesson Eleven

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Who is your favourite poet?

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Reading: Ferdowsi's Shahnameh