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Urdu GCSE Study Session


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Date: 
Friday, 10 February, 2012 - 00:00
Event Type: 
Workshop
Region: 
North West
Location: 
Cornerhouse, Manchester

Friday, 10th February 2012, 10:30 – 15:00
Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level Urdu
£6 per student, 158 places

This full day study session will equip students with a greater understanding of Urdu language and cultural aspects of learning Urdu. In this interactive session, students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the different characters of Hirani’s Three Idiots and will study the film’s key themes in a series of exercises tailored to meet GCSE listening, reading, writing and speaking targets.

Screening: Three Idiots 12A
Director: Rajkumar Hirani / India 2009 / 170 mins / Hindi and Urdu with English Subtitles
Three Idiots broke Box Office records for a Bollywood title upon its release in 2009. This musical comedy-drama follows two best friends as they go looking for their long-lost friend.

Led by Samina Butt, Secondary School Urdu Teacher, Haywood Engineering College, Stoke-on-Trent.