Hindi 313 – Spring 2009
Scripted Conversation #5
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.
10% Extra Credit if turned in by Friday, May 15. (Otherwise due on Monday, May 18)
Session 5. Lifecycle events
Ask each other:
1. Where were you born?
2. Which year were you born in? (Practice Hindi numbers, write out in full!)
3. What is your birthday? How old are you? (Review TYH box on p. 79; practice Hindi numbers, month names!).
4. Where were your family members and friends born? (Provide answers for at least two family members and two friends).
5. What are your family's and friends' birthdays? (Same as above; Practice Hindi numbers, month names!)
6. Has anyone famous died recently? When?
7. What did you feel when you heard that news?
If yes (to 8):
9a. When and where was your wedding?
10a. What kind of man/woman did you marry?
If no (to 8):
9b. When will you marry?
10b. What kind of man/woman do you wish to marry?
Some Vocabulary:
X to be born v.i X पैदा होना, X का जन्म होना
birthday m. जन्म दिन
famous adj. मशहूर, प्रसिद्ध
recently adv. अभी, हाल में
to feel v.i. लगना, मह्सूस करना
married adv. शादीशुदा, विवाहित
kind of X adj. तरह/प्रकार/क़िस्म का X