Table Of ContentPERSIAN IN INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS AND FOREIGN
POLICY
Persian in International Relations and Foreign Policy develops the reader’s
command of the Persian language via thematic units that explore global issues
involving contemporary Iran.
T he textbook features six units covering a broad range of themes with 12
corresponding topic-based lessons that are logically intertwined and introduced
through authentic Persian resources. Starting from the Shah’s ousting in the pivotal
year of 1979, each unit presents unique perspectives on important moments in
history and their impact on social, demographic, economic, and environmental
issues in Iran today. Every unit contains a wide array of skills-focused and practice
activities, which are carefully scaffolded to support learners as they develop and
consolidate their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills with vocabulary
and language structures specific to the lesson. Accompanying multimedia content,
further resources along with grammar and vocabulary sheets are available for
download at www.routledge.com/9781138347199 .
T he textbook facilitates attainment of the American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Advanced High level and the Common European
Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) C1 level, respectively, and it
is designed for students who have achieved the ACTFL’s Intermediate High or
CEFR’s B1 proficiency standards.
M ohamad Esmaili-Sardari is Academic Coordinator of the Middle Eastern
Languages Program (Arabic and Persian) at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, USA.
D aria Mizza is a scholar in the field of curriculum and instruction, with emphases
on educational technology and teaching methodology, in the Department of
Educational Studies of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) at
the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
PERSIAN IN
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS AND
FOREIGN POLICY
A Content-Based Approach
Mohamad Esmaili-Sardari and Daria Mizza
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CONTENTS
Textbook structure viii
Introduction 1
UNIT 1
Upheaval 11
۱ ﺶﺨﺑ
بﻮﺷآ
1 Revolution 13
ب ﻼﻘﻧا:۱ سرد
2 Terrorism 35
ﻢ ﺴﯾروﺮﺗ:۲ سرد
UNIT 2
War 59
۲ ﺶﺨﺑ
ﮓﻨﺟ
1 Ground warfare 61
ﯽ ﻨﯿﻣز ﮓﻨﺟ:۱ سرد
vi Contents
2 Cyber and space warfare 88
ﯽ ﯾﺎﻀﻓ و یﺮﺒﯾﺎﺳ ﮓﻨﺟ:۲ سرد
UNIT 3
Emigration 105
۳ ﺶﺨﺑ
تﺮﺟﺎﮭﻣ
1 Waves of emigration 107
ت ﺮﺟﺎﮭﻣ جاﻮﻣا:۱ سرد
2 Youth emigration 128
ن ﺎﻧاﻮﺟ تﺮﺟﺎﮭﻣ:۲ سرد
UNIT 4
Economy 147
۴ ﺶﺨﺑ
دﺎﺼﺘﻗا
1 Economic growth predictions 149
ی دﺎﺼﺘﻗا ﺪﺷر ﯽﻨﯿﺑ ﺶﯿﭘ:۱ سرد
2 Corruption 165
د ﺎﺴﻓ:۲ سرد
UNIT 5
Education 181
۵ ﺶﺨﺑ
شزﻮﻣآ
1 Education poverty and social progress 183
ﯽ ﻋﺎﻤﺘﺟا ﺖﻓﺮﺸﯿﭘ و شزﻮﻣآ ﺮﻘﻓ:۱ سرد
Contents vii
2 Education quality and government investment 202
ﺖﻟود یراﺬﮔ ﮫﯾﺎﻣﺮﺳ و شزﻮﻣآ ﺖﯿﻔﯿﮐ:۲ سرد
UNIT 6
Pollution 215
۶ ﺶﺨﺑ
ﯽﮔدﻮﻟآ
1 Causes of air pollution 217
ا ﻮھ ﯽﮔدﻮﻟآ ﻞﯾﻻد:۱ سرد
2 Solutions to air pollution 239
اﻮھ ﯽﮔدﻮﻟآ یاﺮﺑ ﯽﯾﺎھ ﻞﺣ هار:۲ سرد
Index 252
TEXTBOOK STRUCTURE
Unit # Theme Topics Tasks Final Functions and Vocabulary
Project Structures
1 Upheaval Lesson 1: • Gather and “Historians • Compare the • Use
Revolution organize key at Work importance of vocabulary
information Ranking events with related to
about modern Historic comparative revolution
Iranian history Events” and
on a chart superlative
• Prepare a group forms of
written report in adjectives
which rankings • Identify and
of historical form the
key events are simple past
justified tense
• Present report
orally
Lesson 2: • Select words “Criminal • Identify and • Use
Terrorism and phrases or Justified form the past vocabulary
to build an Act?” imperfect related to
argument tense terrorism
about • Differentiate
Soleimani’s formation
assassination and use of
• Write group the simple
statements past and past
of fact and imperfect
opinion tenses
• Build an • Narrate
argument factual events
about with the
Soleimani’s simple past
assassination tense
and support • Express past
it in an oral habitual
discussion actions with
the past
imperfect
tense
• State a fact
and express
an opinion
using key
expressions
Textbook Structure ix
Unit # T heme T opics Tasks Final Functions and Vocabulary
Project Structures
2 War Lesson 1: • Identify “The Dos • Identify and • Use
Ground factors leading and Don’ts of form the past vocabulary
Warfare to a ceasefire Sustainable perfect tense related to
• Prepare Ceasefire • Narrate in the ground
a written Agreements” past using warfare
presentation the simple • Express
with lessons past, past and write
learned from imperfect, dates
specific events and past according
to avoid in the perfect tense to the
future Iranian
solar
calendar
• Identify
numerals
above 100
Lesson 2: • Present your “Preventing • Identify time
Cyber work orally Space of reference
and Space • Formulate a Conflict” for the past
Warfare series of rules perfect tense
for potential
uses of outer
space
• Retrieve • Refer to
key written different
information actions and
regarding events in
time periods, the past by
factors, classifying
people, and expressions
countries of time
Lesson 1: • Explain orally “Overview • Connect
Waves of how factors, of Historical causes and
Emigration people and Changes effects
host countries in Iranian of events
relate to each Migration with cause-
time period Since 1961” and-effect
conjunctions
3 Emigration • Sequence
actions with
sequencing
adverbs and
conjunctions
(Continued )
