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4.5 Interactive Activity

Role Play


Teacher’s guide: Distribute new identification cards to each student and have them pair up. Each student will receive a new identity, including a name, country, and the specific town or city they are from. They will greet one another and ask for personal information as if meeting for the first time.

# 1 You are the person described in the chart.

Name Country City or Town
སྒྲོལ་མ། Dolma
བོད། Tibet
རྒྱང་རྩེ། Gyangtse

# 2 You are the person described on the card.

Name Country City or Town
འཇིན། Jean ཁེ་ན་ཌ། Canada མོན་ཊེརི་ཡལ། Montreal

# 3 You are the person described on the card.

Name Country City or Town
ཤོན། Sean ཕ་རན་སི། France ཕེ་རི་སི། Paris

# 4 You are the person described on the card.

ཆན། Chen རྒྱ་ནག China ཧྲང་ཧེ། Shanghai
Name Country City or Town

# 5 You are the person described on the card.

ལེ་སི་ཌི། Lesedi ལྷོ་ཨབ་རི་ཁ། South Africa ཌར་སྦན། Durban
Name Country City or Town

Real Life Activity Scenario


You encounter students from different institutions at a Tibetan language gathering.་Please introduce yourself to three people by sharing at least five personal details and gather their personal information. (You may take note of the information on paper and feel free to write it in English.)

 

Post Activity: Reading Aloud Practice


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  1. བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
  2. སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  3. ཉིན་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  4. དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  5. ངའི་མིང་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཡིན།
  6. ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།
  7. ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
  8. ང་བོད་ནས་ཡིན།
  9. ང་བོད་ལྷ་ས་ནས་ཡིན།
  10. ཨ་ལས་རེད་པས།
  11. ང་གཟུགས་པོ་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན།
  12. ཁྱེད་རང་གི་མཚན་ག་རེ་ཡིན།
  13. ངའི་མིང་འཇིགས་མེད་ཡིན།
  14. ཁྱེད་རང་ག་ནས་ཡིན།
  15. ང་ཡང་བོད་ནས་ཡིན།
  16. ག་ལེར་ཕེབས།
  17. ཁྱེད་རང་བོད་ག་ནས་ཡིན།
  18. རྗེས་ལ་མཇལ་ཡོང་། ག་ལེར་བཞུགས།

Writing Assignment


Write the following six sentences in Tibetan and compare them with another learner in the class or with the dialogue at the beginning of the chapter to see if you got them right.

  1. I am fine, too, thank you.
  2. How are you?
  3. What is your name?
  4. Where are you from?
  5. I am also from Tibet.
  6. Which part of Tibet are you from?

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