What the Persian Media Says - A Coursebook

This stimulating course for intermediate to advanced students of Persian presents many exercises based on authentic Persian newspaper texts and introduces students to the language of the news in Iran.

List of contents

What the Persian Papers Say: An Advanced Course in Persian Lesson 1 Ettel¿'¿t - National and international news (front page) Lesson 2 Keyh¿n - National and international news Lesson 3 Sharq - National and international news (front page) Lesson 4 Ettel¿'¿t - National news Lesson 5 Keyh¿n - National news Lesson 6 Sharq Lesson 7 Ettel¿'¿t - Opinion Lesson 8 Keyh¿n - Entertainment Lesson 9 Sharq - Arts Lesson 10 Ettel¿'¿t - Economics Lesson 11 Keyh¿n - Economics Lesson 12 Sharq - Economics Lesson 13 Ettel¿'¿t - Provincial news Lesson 14 Keyh¿n - Crimes and disasters Lesson 15 Sharq - Social issues Lesson 16 E'tem¿d - National and international news (front page) - Thought Lesson 17 Ir¿n - National and international news (front page) - Politics Lesson 18 Mardoms¿l¿ri - National and international news (front page) - Politics Lesson 19 E'tem¿d - Literature and arts Lesson 20 Ir¿n - Theater - Thought Lesson 21 Mardoms¿l¿ri - Arts - National Lesson 22 E'tem¿d - Social issues - Crimes and disasters Lesson 23 Ir¿n - National news - Social issues Lesson 24 Mardoms¿l¿ri - Health - Arts Lesson 25 E'tem¿d - Politics - Politics Lesson 26 Ir¿n - Politics - Politics Lesson 27 Mardoms¿l¿ri - Politics - Politics Lesson 28 E'tem¿d - Arts - Arts Lesson 29 Ir¿n - Books - National news Lesson 30 Mardoms¿l¿ri - Books - Arts Persian-English glossary English-Persian glossary

About the author

Pouneh Shabani Jadidi　holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa. She has been a Faculty Lecturer, teaching Persian language and linguistics as well as Persian literature and translation at McGill, Oxford, Chicago and Azad universities since 1997. She is the co-author of　The Routledge Introductory Persian Course, 2010 and The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course, 　2012 (both with Dominic Brookshaw). Shabani-Jadidi is also a reviewer for the Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies and the International Journal of Applied Linguistics since 2008.

Summary

This stimulating course for intermediate to advanced students of Persian presents many exercises based on authentic Persian newspaper texts and introduces students to the language of the news in Iran.

Product details

• Authors: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Pouneh (Mcgill University Shabani-Jadidi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138825567
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82556-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Persian, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Language teaching and learning material and coursework, Persian (Farsi)