Hindi 313 – Spring 2009

Scripted Conversation #2

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 2. Travel

(Optional: Bring pictures to show to each other)

Ask each other the following:

1. To which countries have you traveled and when?

2. What are the capitals of these countries?

3. How did you get there?

4. How long did it take to get there?

5. Which cities did you stay in?

6. What sites worth looking at have you seen?

7. Did you take many pictures?

8. With whom did you travel?

9. Did you meet interesting people?

10. Which languages did people speak there?

11. Were you able to understand these languages?

12. Were the food and lodging expensive?

13. Did you like the food? (use लगना )

14. Did you like the country/countries you visited?.

15. Would you advise others to go there? Should I go there?

16. What luggage should one take along?

Extra credit: Write a postcard from India. (See TYH Ex. 9b.1, pp.120-1 and Ex 14b.2, pp. 187-8 for ideas).

Some Vocabulary:

trip                        m     सफ़र

to travel to X         N     X का सफ़र करना

country                 m     देश

region                   m     प्रदेश

airplane                 m     हवाई जहाज़

ship                       m     जहाज़

capital                   f       राजधानी

picture                  f       तस्वीर

to take pictures     N     तस्वीर खींचना

interesting              adj   दिलचस्प

lodging                  f       रहने की जगह

to visit place X      N     X की सैर / यात्रा करना

to (give)advise       N     सलाह ^f देना

luggage                 m     सामान