5.5 Interactive Activity
Teacher Guide
Give each student one task card and one identity chart of the same color for this activity.
Task:
- Find Nyima
- From Tibet
- Indian
- Living in Madison
Once you find the person, get complete information, including their friend’s information. Write their friend’s information in the second column in English.
| Your Name | Country | Nationality | Residence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nyima | Tibet | Indian | Madison |
Task:
- Find Nyima
- From Tibet
- Indian
- Living in Madison
Find the person and get complete information, including their friend’s information.
Write their friend’s information in the second column in English.
| Your Name | Country | Nationality | Residence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nyima | Japan | American | Lhasa, Tibet |
Task:
- Find Dawa
- From England
- Chinese
- Living in Japan, Tokyo
Once you find the person, get complete information, including their friend’s information. Write their friend’s information in the second column in English.
| Your Name | Country | Nationality | Residence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawa | England | Chinese | Tokyo, Japan |
Real-life Activity
Group Activity
Tenzin, Akiko, and Gyatso gather with their friends and family during the end-of-semester celebration, introducing them to each other.
Activity Instruction
Students will form groups of at least three members each. They will introduce themselves and learn each other’s names, countries of origin, countries of residence, contact numbers, and more. They will utilize all the structures introduced in the chapter, including proper question pronouns, first, second, and third person, and auxiliary verbs.
Homework: ནང་སྦྱོང་།
Activity 1: Complete the Sentences Using Auxiliary Verbs
Complete the following sentences with the appropriate auxiliary verbs from the list below. Some may be used more than once. If you need help, try the drag-and-drop exercise below.
| Tibetan Sentences | Auxiliary Verbs |
|---|---|
| 1. ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བདེ་པོ་ (blank) | a. རེད། |
| 2. ཁྱེད་རང་གི་མཚན་ག་རེ་ (blank) | b. ཡིན། |
| 3. ཁོང་ལྷ་ས་ནས་ (blank) Negation | c. ཡིན་པས། |
| 4. ཁོང་གི་མཚན་བསྟན་འཛིན་ (blank) Question | d. མ་རེད། |
| 5. ཁོང་བོད་པ་ (blank) ཁོང་ཨིན་ཇི་བ་རེད། | e. ཡོད་རེད། |
| 6. ང་བོད་ནས་མིན། ང་ཉི་ཧོང་ནས་ (blank) | f. ཀྱི་མེད། |
| 7. ང་མེ་ཌི་སེན་ལ་སྡོད་ (blank) ང་ནིའུ་ཡོག་ལ་སྡོད་ཀྱི་ཡོད། | g. རེད་པས། |
| 8. ཁོང་ནིའུ་ཡོག་ལ་བཞུགས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་མ་རེད། ཁོང་རྒྱ་གར་ལ་བཞུགས་ཀྱི་ (blank) |
Activity 2: Translate the Sentences
Translate the following sentences into Tibetan.
- I am from Tibet, too.
- Which country are you from?
- I am from Tibet. Lhasa.
- I see! Is that right?
- Where do they live?
- Are you American?
- I am not American. I am English.
- Where do you live?
- She is my friend.
- She is also Tibetan.
- I don’t live in Tibet. I live in Nepal.
- My friend’s name is not Jigme.
- It was very nice to meet with you.
Activity 3: Asking Personal Information
Ask two neighbors about their personal information and write them in Tibetan.
- མིང་། / Name: blank
- ལུང་པ། / Country: blank
- ས་གནས། / Hometown City: blank
- མི་རིགས། / Nationality: blank
- བཞུགས་ཡུལ། / Residence: blank
- གྲོགས་མོའི་མིང་། / Friend’s name: blank
