Hindi 1 Lecture 5 a seb kho eat

Hindi 1: Lecture 5 a ��

�� seb khāo eat the apple • You will get a card when you come in. • Some people will get a picture, some a verb. • Move around the class room trying to find a verb and image that match when you make a command, as in the example above. • Then sit down and write out the sentence

�� Reading Hindi is easy • Infinitives of verbs in Hindi have a sense similar to: ‘to verb’ or ‘verb-ing’, • �� Speaking Hindi is easy • �� Eating in the bus is forbidden

What do these notices say?

�� • Work in small groups • Select a bossy big brother or sister • Group members mime doing actions, from those we already know verbs for, and the bossy big brother has to forbid it. • When big brother can’t find the Hindi to forbid something the next person become big brother. • Take notes, be prepared to perform to class.

�� I like Hindi • This construction literally means: to-me Hindi liked is • �� before the verb means ‘don’t like’ – �� We don’t like work. – You can drop the final �� if you are not being emphatic – �� ‘don’t like coke. ’ • �� before �� add emphasis ‘do not like’ – �� We do not like examinations.

�� ? �� • Work in pairs, each write down a list of five things you like and five you dislike. • Then tell each other what you like and dislike. Each time you tell your partner something they contradict it. • You say �� • They say �� • Then they might say �� • and you say you don’t etc.

�� I like film songs • �� instead of �� carries a similar sense of ‘like’, ‘enjoy’ or ‘feel good’. • The phrase �� needs to agree with the thing liked and takes three forms • �� for masculine singular things • �� for masculine plural thing • �� for feminine singular and plural

�� I enjoy playing cricket • Work in small groups • Each person write three things you like doing on slips of paper, such as that above • Then put the slips in the middle • A random player picks a slip and has to stand up and mime the action • The person who correctly says that the person enjoys doing the action takes the next slip.

�� The tea was cold • The Hindi words for was and were agree with the gender and number of what they relate to, there are four forms: • ��– �� The water was cold • ��- �� The samosas were cold • ��- �� The tea was cold • ��– �� The jalebis were cold

�� The food was cold in that restaurant • Form small groups • Imagine you have been to a bad restaurant, and give it a name. • Each of you write down three things which were bad on the format above • Compare your sentences, get rid of any duplicates, and mistakes you can see. • Be prepared to tell us about your restaurant.

�� pahlā: first, etc. �� pahlā dūsrā tīsrā cauthā pā cvā chaṭhā sātvā āṭhvā navā dasvā first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth (ordinal numbers)

�� I am in the first year Divide into small groups, work out: • How to say who is in what year �� I am in the first year • Whose house is on what floor/storey? �� My home is on the fourth storey • �� This is my ninth class