Objective
The primary objective of the Marietta Tamil School is to develop students’ fundamental Tamil language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—as well as their ability to engage effectively in two-way communication.
In addition, the school aims to encourage students to appreciate, actively participate in, preserve, and promote Tamil culture, heritage, customs and traditions, literature, and history.
PreK 1
Age Criteria : 3 years old
Objective
Speaking : Understanding simple Tamil words through stories, nursery rhymes, and activities. Speaking simple sentences. Knowing Tamil words about family, colors, animals, and celebrations correctly, identifying objects, and saying the words.
PreK 2
Age Criteria : 4 years old
Objective
Speaking : Students easily understand basic words like birds, animals, body parts, fruits, vegetables, and flowers in a way that sparks their interest. Furthermore, they learn many more Tamil words through activities, songs, and stories. They speak with correct pronunciation and identify objects by saying the right words.
KinderGarten
Age Criteria : 5 years old
Objective
Speaking : Students understand spoken Tamil. They attempt to answer questions and narrate stories in Tamil. They describe what they see in pictures in Tamil. Using flashcards, they learn new words through games and recognize items, farm animals, domestic animals, wild animals, birds, relatives, body parts, flowers, vegetables, colors, numbers 1-10, etc.. They sing simple songs and speak short sentences in colloquial Tamil through projects.
Writing : Completely writing the vowels, consonants, and vowel-consonant combinations (in the ‘a series and the ‘aa’ series). Writing short and long vowels, and correctly writing Tamil words formed with the introduced letters.
Reading : Identify vowels, consonants, and vowel-consonant combinations (in the ‘a and ‘aa’ series) and read them correctly; read words; and identify and read short and long vowels.
Grammar : Short / Long (vowels), Hard consonants, Medium consonants, Soft consonants.
Accelerated Grade 1
Age Criteria : 7 and above
Objective
Speaking : Students understand spoken Tamil. They attempt to answer questions and narrate stories in Tamil. They describe what they see in pictures in Tamil. Using flashcards, they learn new words through games and recognize items, farm animals, domestic animals, wild animals, birds, relatives, body parts, flowers, vegetables, colors, numbers 1-10, etc.. They sing simple songs and speak short sentences in colloquial Tamil through projects.
Speaking in colloquial Tamil through questions, speaking by looking at pictures, singing songs, learning new words through games, and learning the names of objects in Tamil using flashcards. Knowing and speaking numbers 10-20, 10, 20, 30…100, 100, 200, 300….1000, actions, months, and days of the week, speaking in colloquial Tamil by doing projects.
Writing : Completely writing the vowels, consonants, and vowel-consonant combinations (in the ‘a series and the ‘aa’ series). Writing short and long vowels, and correctly writing Tamil words formed with the introduced letters.
The formation of vowel-consonant combinations, writing words, writing the appropriate word for given pictures, separating the vowel, consonant, and vowel-consonant letters in a word, writing spoken words, arranging letters to form words.
Reading: Identify vowels, consonants, and vowel-consonant combinations (in the ‘a and ‘aa’ series) and read them correctly; read words; and identify and read short and long vowels.
Knowing the ‘i’, ‘ee’, ‘u’, and ‘oo’ series of letters/words, reading them with clear pronunciation and understanding their meaning, and reading short phrases (two or three words).
Grammar: Short / Long (vowels), Hard consonants, Medium consonants, Soft consonants.
Introducing First, second, and third person
Grade 1
Age Criteria : 6 and above
Objective
Speaking : Speaking in colloquial Tamil through questions, speaking by looking at pictures, singing songs, learning new words through games, and learning the names of objects in Tamil using flashcards. Knowing and speaking numbers 10-20, 10, 20, 30…100, 100, 200, 300….1000, actions, months, and days of the week, speaking in colloquial Tamil by doing projects.
Writing : The formation of vowel-consonant combinations, writing words, writing the appropriate word for given pictures, separating the vowel, consonant, and vowel-consonant letters in a word, writing spoken words, arranging letters to form words.
Reading : Knowing the ‘i’, ‘ee’, ‘u’, and ‘oo’ series of letters/words, reading them with clear pronunciation and understanding their meaning, and reading short phrases (two or three words).
Grammar : Introducing First, second, and third person
Grade 2
Age Criteria : 7 and above
Objective
Speaking : Speaking by looking at pictures, speaking by looking at objects, speaking about body parts, colors, fruits, vegetables, flowers, telling stories, learning the names of objects in Tamil using flashcards, speaking in Tamil by doing projects, telling stories, answering questions, singing songs, speaking simple sentences consisting of 2 to 3 words, saying simple sentences by connecting the given noun and verb. Speaking simple sentences using personal pronouns.
Writing : Writing Tamil letters correctly. Creating and writing small words using the letters. Forming words from jumbled letters.
Reading : Identify Tamil letters and read them with correct pronunciation. Read words and understand their meaning. Read short phrases (two or three words).
Grammar : Short Vowels and Long Vowels, Opposite, Combining the appropriate nouns and verbs to make a sentence
Grade 3
Age Criteria : 8 and above
Objective
Speaking : Understanding different situations by looking at pictures and speaking in colloquial Tamil with the help of keywords, speaking with understanding, telling stories, speaking in colloquial Tamil through drama, speaking with appropriate voice modulation as needed, reading simple sentences and discussing them, understanding and speaking simple words through games, speaking in colloquial Tamil on various topics by doing projects.
Writing : Writing Tamil words correctly. Writing simple sentences consisting of 2 to 3 words, clearly creating simple sentences with correct letter formation using the letters and words learned. Understand and listen to the teacher’s words and write the correct word. Writing its corresponding English meaning and forming words by arranging letters in the correct order and forming sentences by arranging words in the correct order.
Reading : Reading words and sentences with correct pronunciation and understanding their meaning, reading sentences and translating them into English, reading short songs and stories, knowing Grantha letters, reciting Aathichoodi (a collection of moral aphorisms) and understanding its meaning, reading a paragraph and comprehending its content.
Grammar : Singular-plural, tenses, short-long vowels, personal pronouns, finite verbs, adjectives/adverbs, sound differentiation, interrogative words
Grade 4
Age Criteria : 9 and above
Objective
Speaking : Role-playing, speaking with appropriate voice modulation as needed, speaking in colloquial Tamil or formal written Tamil according to the situation, understanding different situations by looking at pictures and talking in colloquial Tamil with the help of keywords, understanding and speaking simply through games, researching and speaking on various topics by doing projects.
Writing : Creating simple sentences consisting of 4 to 5 words using the letters and words learned. Writing clearly and without distorting the letter forms. Understanding and listening to what the teacher says and writing the correct word. Forming sentences by arranging words in the correct order. Reading a paragraph and writing the correct answers to the questions.
Reading : Reading words with correct pronunciation and understanding their meaning; reading short sentences with understanding and appropriate intonation; reading songs and stories with a few sentences; reciting the Thirukkural (a classic Tamil text of couplets) and understanding its meaning; reading a paragraph and comprehending its content.
Grammar : Differences between the letters ர (ra), ற (rra), ன (na), ண (nna), ல (la), ள (lla), ழ (zha); personal pronouns; singular, plural; tenses; short and long vowels; antonyms; complete the sentences/paragraphs; arrange words to form sentences; listening/reading comprehension; vocabulary; masculine and feminine gender; case markers.
Grade 5
Age Criteria : 10 and above
Objective
Speaking : Understanding different situations by looking at pictures and speaking in colloquial Tamil with the help of keywords, understanding and speaking simply through games, researching and speaking on various topics by doing projects. Role-playing, expressing ideas simply and practically in various situations, speaking with appropriate voice modulation as needed, speaking in colloquial Tamil or formal written Tamil according to the situation. Reciting the Thirukkural with its meaning.
Writing : Writing their thoughts as sentences using context, related pictures, helping words, short notes, etc. Creating simple sentences using the letters and words learned. Writing clearly and without distorting the letter forms, understanding and listening to what the teacher says and writing the correct word. Forming sentences by arranging words in the correct order. Translating simple words. Reading a paragraph and writing answers to the questions asked.
Reading : Reading words with correct pronunciation and understanding their meaning. Reading short sentences with understanding and appropriate intonation. Reading songs and stories with a few sentences. Reciting the Thirukkural and understanding its meaning. Reading a paragraph and comprehending its content. Reading sentences containing Sanskrit-derived letters (Grantha letters).
Grammar : Personal pronouns, case markers, conjunctions (like ‘but’, ‘therefore’), noun, verb, words with sound differences (homophones), tenses, gender, sound differentiation.
Grade 6
Age Criteria : 11 and above
Objective
Speaking : Understanding different situations by looking at pictures and speaking in colloquial Tamil with the help of keywords, understanding and speaking simply through games, researching and speaking on various topics by doing projects, role-playing, expressing ideas simply and practically in numerous situations, speaking with appropriate voice modulation as needed, speaking in colloquial Tamil or formal written Tamil according to the situation. Explaining the meaning of Thirukural through stories. Translating sentences.
Writing : Writing their thoughts using context, related pictures, helping words, short notes, etc. Write clearly and without distorting the letter forms. Recalling and writing learned words and phrases; creating simple sentences using the letters and words learned. Writing a story or essay based on a picture, a series of images, or a situation. Translating sentences into English, understanding and listening to the teacher’s words, writing the correct words and forming sentences by arranging words in the correct order, reading a paragraph, and writing the correct answers to the questions.
Reading : Reading words fluently with correct pronunciation and understanding their meaning; reading sentences with understanding and appropriate intonation; reading songs and stories with a few sentences; reciting the Thirukkural and understanding its meaning; reading a paragraph and comprehending its content; speaking fluently in Tamil without hesitation about a picture seen, an event, or any topic.
Grammar : Case markers include masculine and feminine genders, short and long vowels, adjectives, adverbs, finite verbs, tenses, singular and plural sentences, and personal pronouns. Sound difference (homophones), noun classes (differences in referring to humans and non-human objects) conjunctions (but, therefore, or, then, also/and, because), verb predicate, noun predicate, interrogative predicate, gender, combine two sentences into one, a/an (in Tamil), antonyms.
Grade 7
Age Criteria : 12 and above
Objective
Speaking : Debating, commenting, storytelling, role-playing, and expressing ideas simply and practically in various situations. Speaking with appropriate voice modulation as needed, speaking in colloquial Tamil or formal written Tamil according to the situation. Understanding the listener’s questions and providing suitable answers in sentences. Exchanging ideas using appropriate words and diverse sentences. Knowing how to initiate, continue, and conclude a conversation correctly. Knowing how to exchange ideas according to the place, object, and situation.Explaining the meaning of Thirukural through stories.
Writing : Writing a story or essay based on their thoughts using context, related pictures, helping words, short notes, etc. Write clearly and without distorting the letter forms. Recalling and writing learned words and phrases; creating sentences using the letters and words learned. Translating sentences into English, reading a paragraph, and writing the correct answers to the questions.
Reading : Reading words fluently with correct pronunciation and understanding their meaning; reading sentences with understanding and appropriate intonation; reading songs and stories with a few sentences; reciting the Thirukkural and understanding its meaning; reading a paragraph and comprehending its content; reading a lesson, understanding its meaning, and explaining it; reading storybooks in depth.
Grammar : Case markers, noun, relative participle (adjectival participle), verb, verbal participle (adverbial participle), finite verb, personal pronouns, noun classes (difference in referring to humans and non-human objects) gender (masculine/feminine/neuter), correlative conjunctions, subject, object, predicate, interrogative words, tenses.
Grade 8
Age Criteria : 13 and above
Objective
Speaking : Debating, commenting, storytelling, and role-playing. Expressing ideas simply and practically in various situations. Speaking with appropriate voice modulation as needed, speaking in colloquial Tamil or formal written Tamil according to the situation. Understanding the listener’s questions and providing suitable answers in sentences. Exchanging ideas using appropriate words and diverse sentences. Knowing how to initiate, continue, and conclude a conversation correctly. Knowing how to exchange ideas according to the place, object, and situation. Knowing how to explain ideas further. Explaining the meaning of Thirukkural and Moothurai (an ancient Tamil collection of wisdom).
Writing : Write their thoughts in a coherent essay of at least ten sentences using context, related pictures, helping words, short notes, etc. Write clearly and without distorting the letter forms. Recalling and writing learned words and phrases; creating simple compound sentences using learned words and writing a story or essay based on a picture, a series of images, or a situation. Translating. Advanced vocabulary.
Reading : Reading small books fluently with understanding. Reading various types of books in depth. Reading diverse books such as those containing pictures, maps, tables, etc., and understanding and synthesizing the direct information within them.
Grammar : Case markers, postpositions; relative participle (adjectival participle); verbal participle (adverbial participle). Reduplicative words: forming words by combining letters (initial, medial, final); Intensive reduplication; short and long vowels; sentences that convey difference; relative participle; noun; adjective; adverb; sentences containing the sounds of ல (la), ள (lla), ழ (zha), ண (nna), ன (na), ந (na), ற (rra), ர (ra); extending sentences; finite verb; verbal participle; identifying error-free singular and plural sentences; translating words and forming sentences; case markers; combine and write; ordering jumbled sentences; translating dialogues; subject, object, predicate with modifiers; noun classes (difference in referring to humans and non-human objects), gender (masculine/feminine/neuter), number, person, tense agreement.
Grade 9
Age Criteria : 14 and above
Course Eligibility : Students should have completed International Tamil Academy (ITA) Tamil – Grade 8 / Tamil – 2A course conducted by Marietta Tamil School (MTS) or any State Accredited institution affiliated to ITA or completed the Qualification exam conducted by MTS.
Objective
Speaking
● Debates on complex topics, expressing opinions, Storytelling in advanced proficiency.
● Role plays, Scenario Articulation, make long speeches, narrating anecdotes fluently.
● Understanding questions and answering in detailed sentences in advanced proficiency
● Group discussions on complex topics, fluent conversations
● Thirukkural, Naaladiyar, Moodhurai – understanding the meaning and articulation,explaining with examples.
Writing
● Practice writing using Scenarios, Comics, Support words and hints, framing many
● Sentences on any topic at advanced proficiency level.
● Understanding the basic rules and writing without impacting the core language structure
● Able to combine two complex sentences into one sentence and able to split a complex
● Sentence into two sentences at an advanced proficiency level.
● Long story writing and essay writing using complex words.
● Translations complex sentences from Tamil to English and Vice versa
● Project – Ancient Tamil History, Tamil traditional customs and practices
Reading
● Reading Tamil books fluently with correct pronunciation and modulation
● Reading diversified complex topics, understand and express their opinion about it.
● Reading Poems and Long Stories with advanced-mid proficiency level.
● Reading “Thirukkural”, Pazhamozhigal with meaning and explain with examples.
Grammar
● Case suffixes, Prepositions
● Short and Long Vowels
● Gender
● Phonics
● Punctuation
● Noun, Pronoun
● Verb (Complete, Incomplete)
● Legacy and parable sentences
● Adjectives
● Adverb
● Number
● Tenses
● Classes
Grade 10
Age Criteria : 15 and above
Course Eligibility : Students should have completed International Tamil Academy (ITA) Tamil – Grade 9 / Tamil – 2B course conducted by Marietta Tamil School (MTS) or any State Accredited institution affiliated to ITA or completed the Qualification exam conducted by MTS.
Objective
Speaking
● Debates on complex topics, expressing opinions, Storytelling in advanced proficiency.
● Role plays, Scenario Articulation, make long speeches, narrating anecdotes fluently.
● Understanding questions and answering in detailed sentences in advanced proficiency
● Group discussions on complex topics, fluent conversations
● Thirukkural, Naaladiyar, Moodhurai – understanding the meaning and articulation,explaining with examples.
Writing
● Practice writing using Scenarios, Comics, Support words and hints, framing many
● Sentences on any topic at advanced proficiency level.
● Understanding the basic rules and writing without impacting the core language structure
● Able to combine two complex sentences into one sentence and able to split a complex
● Sentence into two sentences at an advanced proficiency level.
● Long story writing and essay writing using complex words.
● Translations complex sentences from Tamil to English and Vice versa
● Project – Ancient Tamil History, Tamil traditional customs and practices
Reading
● Reading Tamil books fluently with correct pronunciation and modulation
● Reading diversified complex topics, understand and express their opinion about it.
● Reading Poems and Long Stories with advanced-mid proficiency level.
● Reading “Thirukkural”, Pazhamozhigal with meaning and explain with examples.
Grammar
● Case suffixes, Prepositions
● Short and Long Vowels
● Gender,Tenses,Classes
● Phonics
● Punctuation
● Noun, Pronoun
● Verb (Complete, Incomplete)
● Legacy and parable sentences
● Adjectives
● Adverb
● Combining and separating words
● Single work multiple meanings
Grade 11
Age Criteria : 16 and above
Course Eligibility : Students should have completed International Tamil Academy (ITA) Tamil – Grade 10 / Tamil – 3A course conducted by Marietta Tamil School (MTS) or any State Accredited institution affiliated to ITA or completing the Qualification exam conducted by MTS.
Objective
Speaking
● Debates on complex topics, expressing opinions, Storytelling, Group discussions on complex topics, conversations in advanced-High proficiency.
● Role plays, Scenario Articulation, make long speeches, narrating anecdotes fluently.
● Understanding questions and answering in detailed sentences in advanced-High proficiency.
● Thirukkural, Moodhurai, Pazhamozhigal – understanding the meaning and articulation, explaining with examples
Writing
● Practice writing using Scenarios, Comics, Support words and hints, framing many sentences on any topic at advanced-mid proficiency level.
● Understanding the basic rules and writing without impacting the core language structure
● Able to combine two complex sentences into one sentence and able to split a complex sentence into two sentences at an advanced-High proficiency level.
● Long story writing and essay writing using highly complex words.
● Translations high complex sentences from Tamil to English and Vice versa
● Project – Ancient Tamil History, Tamil traditional customs, and practices
Reading
● Reading Tamil books fluently with correct pronunciation and modulation
● Reading diversified complex topics, understand and express their opinion about it.
● Reading Poems and Long Stories with advanced-mid proficiency level.
● Reading “Thirukkural”, Pazhamozhigal with meaning and explain with examples.
Grammar
● Case suffixes, Prepositions
● Short and Long Vowels
● Gender, Tenses, Classes
● Phonics
● Punctuation
● Noun, Pronoun
● Verb (Complete, Incomplete)
● Legacy and parable sentences
● Adjectives
● Adverb
● Combining and separating words
● Single work multiple meanings
Grade 12
Age Criteria : 17 and above
Course Eligibility : Students should have completed International Tamil Academy (ITA) Tamil – Grade 11 / Tamil – 3B course conducted by Marietta Tamil School (MTS) or any State Accredited institution affiliated to ITA or completing the Qualification exam conducted by MTS.
Objective
Speaking
● Debates on complex topics, expressing opinions, Storytelling, Group discussions on complex topics, conversations in superior proficiency.
● Role plays, Scenario Articulation, make long speeches, narrating anecdotes fluently.
● Understanding questions and answering in detailed sentences in superior proficiency.
● Thirukkural, Moodhurai, Pazhamozhigal – understanding the meaning and articulation, explaining with examples.
Writing
● Practice writing using Scenarios, Comics, Support words and hints, framing many sentences on any topic at superior proficiency level.
● Understanding the basic rules and writing without impacting the core language structure
● Able to combine two complex sentences into one sentence and able to split a complex sentence into two sentences in superior proficiency level.
● Long story writing and essay writing using high complex words.
● Translations high complex sentences from Tamil to English and Vice versa
● Project – Ancient Tamil History, Tamil traditional customs, and practices
Reading
● Reading Tamil books fluently with correct pronunciation and modulation
● Reading diversified complex topics, understand and express their opinion about it.
● Reading Poems and Long Stories with advanced-mid proficiency level.
● Reading “Thirukkural”, Pazhamozhigal with meaning and explain with examples.
Grammar
● Case suffixes, Prepositions
● Phonics
● Noun, Pronoun
● Verb (Complete, Incomplete)
● Legacy and parable sentences
● Adjectives
● Adverb
● Combining and separating words
● Single work multiple meanings
● Vettrumaithogai
● Udanpaattu vinaimuttru, edhirmarai vinaimuttru
● Vallottru pizhaigal
● Vallinam migum, migaa idangal
● Amaippuchorkal
● Karuththu maaraa vakkiyam