CHAPTER 4
MUTUALLY COMPLEMENTARY MATERIALS (SWAHILI)
| bwana (MA personal class) | gentleman |
| katibu ( " " " ) | secretary |
| makamu ( " " " ) | assistant, vice- |
| mwenye kiti (MU-WA class) | chairman |
| mtunza hazina ( " " ) | treasurer |
Inventory of simple sentences:
| Chama hiki kina matawi mengi. | This union has many branches. |
| Tawi hili limewachagua maafisa wapya. | This branch has elected new officers. |
| Wafuatao walichaguliwa. | The following were elected. |
| Bw _____ alichaguliwa kuwa mwenyekiti. | Mr._____ was chosen to be chairman. |
Next, the team selected at random three units from Swahili Basic Course (Units 32, 60, 75), noted the structure drills in each, and tried to write new drills on the same points as the existing ones. Content was drawn either from the two inventories, or from other closely-related vocabulary that the students could be counted on to know.
This proved to be possible for all drills except those on very minor and specialized points.
Two examples will suffice. The first, from Unit 32, is a completely ordinary substitution-correlation drill involving concords with the adjective stem -zuri 'good':
| muhogo | Mkulima huyu apanda muhogo (or: .. anapanda ... ) | This farmer plants very good cassava. |
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