Hindi 313 – Spring 2009

Scripted Conversation #1

Students are to prepare the appropriate questions and possible answers in Hindi before the conversation session and turn them in for correction. Be creative with your answers! Memorize the corrected questions and answers with a goal for fluid, natural delivery.  During the session, you will team up in pairs and follow the script outlined below.  You are welcome to deviate from it and follow another interesting line of conversation, as long as it is all conducted in Hindi.  When you have gone through all the questions, switch roles: the person who has been asking should now be answering and vice versa.  Half way through, everyone switches partners.  Preferably, the new partners should be of different gender than the previous one, so that everyone gets a chance to ask all the questions, using masculine verbal endings, and then switch to feminine ones or the other way around.

 

Session 1. Time and Day Planning

1.      Ask each other the following:

3.      What time do you usually arrive at school?

4.      What time do you usually eat lunch?

5.      What time do you usually get home?

6.      What time do you usually eat dinner?

7.      What time do you usually go to bed?

8.      What time did you get up/ will you get up yesterday/next Saturday?

9.      What time did you arrive at school yesterday/ will you go out next Saturday?

10.  What time did you eat/ will you eat lunch yesterday/ next Sunday?

11.  What time did/ will you get home yesterday/ next Tuesday?

12.  What time did you ate/ will you eat dinner yesterday/ next Monday?

13.  What time did/will you go to bed yesterday/ next Thursday?

14.  What time did you get up yesterday?

15.  Ask each other what your plans are for the day: first what you should do (चाहिए), and then what you would like to do (चाहना)

 

Some Vocabulary:

lunch = दिन का भोजन
dinner = रात का भोजन
to go to bed = to sleep
to get up = to wake up = जागना, उठना
next day = अगला दिन (hint: adverb of time).