By the end of this module, students will be able to:
- Interpersonal Communication:
- Ask and answer basic questions about types of housing, rooms, and household items.
- Describe their house/apartment and its contents to a partner or small group.
- Discuss daily activities performed at home using appropriate vocabulary and verb tenses.
- Asking/answering about location
- Engage in simple conversations about hospitality and visiting someone’s home.
- Interpretive Communication:
- Identify key vocabulary related to housing and home life when listening to descriptions or short dialogues.
- Understand spoken/written descriptions
- Read and comprehend short descriptions of houses or rooms.
- Understand simple cultural explanations about housing in East Africa.
- Presentational Communication:
- Present a simple description of their ideal home or their actual living space.
- Describe things in relation to others in a room, locations
- Create a short visual aid (e.g., drawing, simple floor plan) labeled to accompany a presentation about their home.
- Write a short paragraph describing a room in their house or a typical East African home.
· Cultures:
- Identify at least two common types of housing in East Africa (e.g., stone house, mud house, apartment).
- Recognize some cultural aspects of hospitality and shared living spaces in Swahili-speaking communities.
To achieve these outcomes, you will learn the following grammar structures:
- noun Classes and Number Agreements
- locative ni-
- Prepositions of place
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