APPENDIX U TO CHAPTER 8
ROUTINE MANIPULATIONS BASED ON A
SERIES OF SIMPLE NEWS ITEMS
(SWAHILI)
The set of unpublished materials from which the following examples are taken have two different purposes: 1. For students, they introduce simple examples of one type of routine news story (travel of officials), and provide drills based on the content of the stories.
2. For instructors, they show syllable-by-syllable a large number of drills based on the first two stories.
From that point on, the same drill's are repeated with each succeeding story, but in progressively more abbreviated forms, until finally the instructor is conducting the drills from a minimal list of reminders (P.430).
Both students and instructor are led to break texts down into two inventories: nouns and short sentences. The former are important in Swahili because of the role played by concordial agreement between nouns and many other words: the latter serve largely as the basis for drills involving changes of tense, and changes from affirmative to negative. Included here are most of the drills to accompany the first news item; a few, for comparison purposes, derived from the second item; one more item with its 'inventories;' and the final list of key phrases which
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