Grade 06: Hindi

In this unit, 'Letter writing', you learn to write a letter. You work with notes, a worked line and a self-mark. You see it, say it, then do it alone.

• Listen first: your teacher or a recording says the new words or sentences from 'Letter writing' twice. You repeat them aloud.
• Notice the pattern: find where the new sound, word form or sentence rule appears in a short text and mark it.
• Use it: write a letter, first with help, then alone.
• Check and fix: read your work aloud once more; fix one thing you hear is wrong.

Step by step.

1. Step 1, Learn the layout of an informal letter. Top right: place and date, जयपुर, 12 नवंबर 2026. Then on the left the greeting, प्रिय मित्र अनिल [Dear friend Anil], and a warm opening, सप्रेम नमस्कार [warm greetings]. Then the body, then the closing and your name. Draw this layout on a page.
2. Step 2, Write the opening lines. मैं यहाँ कुशल हूँ और आशा करता हूँ कि तुम भी स्वस्थ होगे [I am well here, and I hope you are well too]। This sentence asks after the reader's health, which is how Hindi letters usually begin before the main news.
3. Step 3, Write the body with one clear purpose. तुमने मुझे जन्मदिन पर सुंदर पुस्तक भेजी, इसके लिए धन्यवाद [Thank you for the beautiful book you sent for my birthday]। मैं आधी कहानियाँ पढ़ चुका हूँ [I have already read half the stories]। Add one more sentence of your own.
4. Step 4, Close the letter. छुट्टियों में हमारे घर आना [Please come to our house in the holidays]। अपने माता-पिता को मेरा नमस्कार कहना [Give my greetings to your parents]। Then write तुम्हारा मित्र, राहुल [Your friend, Rahul] on the right side, below the last line.
5. Step 5, Change the tone for an elder. To a grandmother write आदरणीय दादी जी, सादर प्रणाम [Respected grandmother, respectful greetings], use आप instead of तुम, and close with आपका पोता [your grandson]। A common error is using तुम for elders, so check every pronoun.
6. Step 6, Your turn: write a four-line letter to a cousin about your school trip. Model answer: प्रिय भाई सुमित, सप्रेम नमस्कार। कल हम चिड़ियाघर गए [Yesterday we went to the zoo]। मुझे शेर देखना बहुत अच्छा लगा [I loved seeing the lion]। तुम्हारा भाई, विजय।

Activity. About 30 to 40 minutes of class work, then one short practice task for home. Keep evidence: a worked task and a corrected copy.

Standard to meet. Write a letter: at least 8 of 10 marks on a short task, with one line of reasoning for each answer.

In this unit, 'Poems', you learn to recite and explain. You work with notes, a worked line and a self-mark. You see it, say it, then do it alone.

• Listen first: your teacher or a recording says the new words or sentences from 'Poems' twice. You repeat them aloud.
• Notice the pattern: find where the new sound, word form or sentence rule appears in a short text and mark it.
• Use it: recite and explain, first with help, then alone.
• Check and fix: read your work aloud once more; fix one thing you hear is wrong.

Step by step.

1. Step 1, Read the four lines I wrote. नदी चली पर्वत से, गाती हुई, सागर से मिलने, इठलाती हुई। कहती है मुझसे, चलते रहना, हर बाधा से आगे बढ़ते रहना। [The river set off from the mountain, singing, to meet the sea, swaying. It tells me, keep moving, go forward past every obstacle.]
2. Step 2, Understand the words. पर्वत [mountain], सागर [sea], इठलाती [swaying playfully], बाधा [obstacle], आगे बढ़ना [to move forward]. Write each meaning in your notebook and read the lines again with the meanings in mind.
3. Step 3, Explain the lines. The first two lines describe the river's journey. The last two lines give the river's message: never stop, whatever blocks you. Write: कवि नदी के माध्यम से हमें निरंतर चलने की प्रेरणा देता है। [Through the river the poet inspires us to keep moving.]
4. Step 4, Name the poetic devices. The river sings and speaks like a person; this is personification (मानवीकरण). The sounds हुई and हुई repeat at line ends, and रहना repeats too, creating rhythm. Read the poem aloud, stressing the rhyming ends.
5. Step 5, Fix an error. A student says the poem is only about a river travelling. Correction: the poem also carries a message about perseverance, so explain the central idea: हर बाधा के बाद भी हमें आगे बढ़ना चाहिए। [We should keep going even after every obstacle.]
6. Step 6, Your turn: say what the river wants to meet and what it teaches. Model answer: नदी सागर से मिलना चाहती है। वह सिखाती है कि हमें बाधाओं से रुकना नहीं चाहिए। [The river wants to meet the sea. It teaches that we should not stop because of obstacles.]

Activity. About 30 to 40 minutes of class work, then one short practice task for home. Keep evidence: a worked task and a corrected copy.

Standard to meet. Recite and explain: at least 8 of 10 marks on a short task, with one line of reasoning for each answer.

In this unit, 'Paragraph writing', you learn to write a paragraph. You work with notes, a worked line and a self-mark. You see it, say it, then do it alone.

• Listen first: your teacher or a recording says the new words or sentences from 'Paragraph writing' twice. You repeat them aloud.
• Notice the pattern: find where the new sound, word form or sentence rule appears in a short text and mark it.
• Use it: write a paragraph, first with help, then alone.
• Check and fix: read your work aloud once more; fix one thing you hear is wrong.

Step by step.

1. Step 1, Plan a paragraph before you write. It has a topic sentence, three or four supporting sentences and a closing sentence, all on one idea. Choose the topic वर्षा ऋतु [the rainy season] and start with: वर्षा ऋतु मुझे सबसे प्रिय है [The rainy season is my favourite]।
2. Step 2, Add facts as supporting sentences. यह ऋतु जून से सितंबर तक रहती है [This season lasts from June to September]। आकाश में काले बादल छा जाते हैं [Dark clouds spread across the sky]। Each sentence should give one fact the reader can picture.
3. Step 3, Add a detail from life. किसान खेतों में धान बोते हैं [Farmers sow rice in the fields]। बच्चे बारिश में कागज़ की नाव चलाते हैं [Children sail paper boats in the rain]। Details make a paragraph interesting, so choose two that you have actually seen.
4. Step 4, Link the sentences with joining words. वर्षा से नदियाँ भर जाती हैं, इसलिए पानी की कमी दूर होती है [Rain fills the rivers, so the shortage of water ends]। लेकिन कभी-कभी बाढ़ आ जाती है [But sometimes floods come]। इसलिए means so, लेकिन means but.
5. Step 5, Finish with a closing sentence and join all the sentences into one block with no line breaks: सचमुच, वर्षा जीवन देती है [Truly, rain gives life]। Read the whole paragraph aloud and check each sentence ends with (।), and that no sentence repeats an earlier one.
6. Step 6, Your turn: write five sentences on मेरा प्रिय खेल [my favourite game]। Model answer: मेरा प्रिय खेल क्रिकेट है। मैं इसे रोज़ शाम को खेलता हूँ। इसमें बल्ला और गेंद चाहिए। यह खेल मुझे दोस्तों से जोड़ता है। इसलिए मुझे क्रिकेट सबसे अच्छा लगता है।

Activity. About 30 to 40 minutes of class work, then one short practice task for home. Keep evidence: a worked task and a corrected copy.

Standard to meet. Write a paragraph: at least 8 of 10 marks on a short task, with one line of reasoning for each answer.

In this unit, 'Speaking practice', you learn to present a short talk. You work with notes, a worked line and a self-mark. You see it, say it, then do it alone.

• Listen first: your teacher or a recording says the new words or sentences from 'Speaking practice' twice. You repeat them aloud.
• Notice the pattern: find where the new sound, word form or sentence rule appears in a short text and mark it.
• Use it: present a short talk, first with help, then alone.
• Check and fix: read your work aloud once more; fix one thing you hear is wrong.

Step by step.

1. Step 1, Choose a topic you know well and a listener. For a one-minute talk to your class, pick मेरा शौक [my hobby]। At a calm pace you speak about 100 words in a minute, so plan roughly 100 words, or 8 to 10 short sentences. Write the topic on top of a card.
2. Step 2, Make an outline of three points on small cards: क्या [what is the hobby], क्यों [why I like it] and कैसे [how I do it]। Write only key words on each card, such as बागवानी, पौधे, पानी [gardening, plants, water], and not whole sentences.
3. Step 3, Write the opening. सभी को नमस्कार [Hello, everyone]। आज मैं अपने शौक के बारे में बताऊँगी [Today I will tell you about my hobby]। मेरा शौक बागवानी है [My hobby is gardening]। A boy says बताऊँगा. Say the opening without looking at the card.
4. Step 4, Say the middle. मुझे पौधे लगाना अच्छा लगता है [I like planting plants]। मैं रोज़ सुबह उन्हें पानी देती हूँ [I water them every morning]। मेरे पास गुलाब और पुदीने के पौधे हैं [I have rose and mint plants]। Add one thing you learned.
5. Step 5, Close and deliver. आपने ध्यान से सुना, धन्यवाद [Thank you for listening carefully]। Rehearse standing up: speak loudly, pause after each sentence, and look at your listeners. A common error is reading the card word by word, so glance at key words and then look up.
6. Step 6, Your turn: give a three-sentence talk about your pet or a favourite book. Model answer: नमस्कार, मेरे पास एक तोता है [Hello, I have a parrot]। वह मेरी आवाज़ पहचानता है [He knows my voice]। मुझे उसके साथ खेलना अच्छा लगता है। धन्यवाद [Thank you]।

Activity. About 30 to 40 minutes of class work, then one short practice task for home. Keep evidence: a worked task and a corrected copy.

Standard to meet. Present a short talk: at least 8 of 10 marks on a short task, with one line of reasoning for each answer.

On the slide: L1 Basic · Greetings and first words

Notes: Greet people politely, say your name and name five family members in Hindi. Notes: teach नमस्ते (namaste, hello) and मेरा नाम ... है (mera naam ... hai, my name is ...) by ear; learners greet a partner and point to family photos while saying each word.

On the slide: L2 Awareness · The Devanagari script

Notes: Recognise the vowels and first consonants of Devanagari and copy them neatly under the top line. Notes: show how letters hang from a horizontal line, then write क (ka) with correct stroke order; learners find it in three printed words and read each one aloud.

On the slide: L3 Foundation · Simple sentences and postpositions

Notes: Read and write short sentences with verb at the end and use postpositions such as में (in) and पर (on). Notes: model किताब मेज़ पर है (kitaab mez par hai, the book is on the table); learners make five sentences about a classroom and draw each one.

This course: Grade 06 Hindi is at this level. Its units include Letter writing; Poems; Paragraph writing; Speaking practice.

On the slide: L4 Practitioner · Daily conversation and tenses

Notes: Hold a short conversation about daily life using present, past and future tenses with correct gender agreement. Notes: contrast वह जाता है (he goes) with वह जाती है (she goes); learners ask a partner what they did yesterday, then write six sentences marking each verb ending.

On the slide: L5 Specialist · Reading, writing and register

Notes: Read a news article and write a formal letter of about 200 words, choosing between polite and casual forms. Notes: compare आप, तुम and तू (you, three levels of respect) in one dialogue; learners rewrite it for a teacher, a friend and a child.

On the slide: L6 Advanced · Literature and linguistics

Notes: Analyse a Hindi poem or story for theme, form and vocabulary origins, and write a critical essay in Hindi. Notes: use a short poem; learners sort ten words into Sanskrit-derived, Persian-derived and English-derived, then argue in 500 words how word choice shapes tone.

On the slide: L7 Super expert · Research, translation and teaching

Notes: Design a research or translation project on Hindi language or literature, justify the method and present findings to peers. Notes: pick a topic such as code-switching in advertising; collect forty examples, classify them, discuss limits of the sample, and have a fluent reviewer check every claim.