Translate simple school, community or media texts from Hindi to English and vice versa, explaining words or phrases that need to be interpreted or explained
Elaborations
translating simple texts such as signs, menu items or public announcements from Hindi to English and vice versa, comparing which words they chose to convey the closest equivalent meaning
explaining Hindi words or expressions that they find difficult or amusing to explain to non-Hindi-speaking friends, for example, पेट में चूहे दौड़ रहे हैं।
identifying and working out the meaning of unfamiliar English words used in other curriculum areas, such as erosion, fraction,consumer, discussing how they would translate or explain them in Hindi
collecting proverbs used in their families, such as दूर के ढोल सुहावने, considering how to explain their meaning to non-Hindi-speaking friends
providing a literal translation of commonly-used expressions such as the greeting नमस्ते, and comparing with greetings used in English
learning to use bilingual print and digital dictionaries, identifying issues such as multiple meanings for words and the fact that meaning is not always literal
