Hindi 313 – Spring 2009
Scripted Conversation #6
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 22. (Otherwise due on Tuesday, May 26)
Requires you to review Conditional Sentences, TYH 17.1 and 10.4
Session 6. Possibilities and unfulfilled dreams
Ask each other:
1. If class gets out early, what will you do?
2. If it rains next weekend, what will you do?
3. If the sun comes out next Saturday, what will you do?
4. If your father told you to marry a boy/girl of his choice, would you get upset?
5. If you like someone, would you marry him/her against your parents’ wishes?
6. If you were the president, what would you do first?
7. If you were rich, how would you use your money?
8. If you were the Hindi teacher, what would you tell the students to do/not to do?
9. If you could spend the day with someone famous, with whom would you spend it?
10. If you got the chance to write for the New York Times, what would you write about?
Some Vocabulary:
boy/girl of X’s choice X के पसंद का/की लड़का/लड़की
against X’s wishes X की इच्छा के ख़िलाफ़
to get upset परेशान होना/हो जाना
president राष्ट्रपतिm
spend the day दिन बितानाN