Concord: Singular 'near' your demonstratives.
Have available a number of movable objects, at least one from each of the following classes:
M-WA
M-MI
LI-MA
KI-VI
N
Put one object near a student, move away, and say Hiyo ni kalamu, or whatever the object is. Then take the object away from him, and have him say the same thing to you. Then hold the object and ask Hiki ni kitu gani? Have him reply Hicho ni kitabu, or whatever the object is. Be sure that there is agreement between the location of the object and the use of hii, hiki, hili or hiyo, hicho, hilo. Let the students use these questions among themselves, and in getting new vocabulary from you. Do not require them to remember the new words that they get from you in this way.
If a demonstrative word (this, that, these, those) accompanies or refers to a noun, its form depends on the noun. This can be seen in the 'near you, or otherwise already identified' demonstratives for singular nouns:
| meza | hiyo | 'that table near you, or already mentioned' |
| table | that | |
| mtu | hyuo | 'that person' |
| person | that | |
| dirisha | hilo | 'that window' |
| window | that | |
| mlango | huo | 'that door' |
| door | that | |
| kitu | hicho | 'that thing' |
| thing | that |
(See Synopsis, par. 18 .)
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