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10.5 Sentence Structure 3: Making Plans and Talking About the Future

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Future Tense First-person Volitional Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs


Use the audio file and practice the following questions and answers.


Number Questions Answers
1. ཁྱེད་རང་དགོང་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་ལ་བོད་པའི་ཟ་ཁང་ལ་འགྲོ་ཡི་ཡིན། ང་དགོང་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ དྲུག་པ་ཙམ་ལ་ () བོད་པའི་ཟ་ཁང་ལ་འགྲོ་ཡི་ཡིན།
2. སང་ཉིན་ཁྱེད་རང་གིས་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ལ་ནང་སྦྱོང་བྱ་ཡི་ཡིན་པས། སང་ཉིན་ངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ལ་ཆུ་ཚོད་གཉིས་ནང་སྦྱོང་བྱ་ཡི་ཡིན།
3. དེ་རིང་ཁྱེད་རང་གིས་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་ལས་ཀ་བྱ་ཡི་ཡིན། དེ་རིང་ངས་ཆུ་ཚོད་བརྒྱད་ལས་ཀ་བྱ་ཡི་ཡིན།
4. སང་ཉིན་ཁྱེད་རང་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་བར་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ལ་བཞུགས་ཀྱི་ཡིན། སང་ཉིན་ང་ཆུ་ཚོད་བདུན་པ་བར་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ལ་བསྡད་ཀྱི་ཡིན།

Challenge Yourself


Activity 1: Match the Sentences

You can work with your partner or do this individually.

Can you find the correct Tibetan sentences that match the English ones and read them aloud? Once you’re done, complete the interactive exercise below to check your answers.

English Sentences Tibetan Sentences
1. How long will you stay in the library tomorrow? a. ཁྱེད་རང་དགོང་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་ལ་བོད་པའི་ཟ་ཁང་ལ་འགྲོ་ཡི་ཡིན།
2. What time are you going to the Tibetan restaurant tonight? b. ང་དགོང་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ དྲུག་པ་ཙམ་ལ་ (༦) བོད་པའི་ཟ་ཁང་ལ་འགྲོ་ཡི་ཡིན།
3. Tomorrow I will study in the library for two hours. c. སང་ཉིན་ངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ལ་ཆུ་ཚོད་གཉིས་ནང་སྦྱོང་བྱ་ཡི་ཡིན།
4. How many hours will you work today? d. དེ་རིང་ཁྱེད་རང་གིས་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་ལས་ཀ་བྱ་ཡི་ཡིན།
5. Tomorrow I will stay in the library until seven o’clock. e. སང་ཉིན་ཁྱེད་རང་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་བར་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ལ་བཞུགས་ཀྱི་ཡིན།
6. I am going to the Tibetan restaurant at around six in the evening. f. སང་ཉིན་ང་ཆུ་ཚོད་བདུན་པ་བར་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ལ་བསྡད་ཀྱི་ཡིན།

Activity 2: Speaking

Work in pairs or individually. Discuss with a friend or record five things you will do in the coming days. Use the days of the week, verbs, and adverbs we learned in this lesson.

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Real Life Activity


Talk with a friend and arrange a weekend study session for your upcoming exam. Use the verbs, adverbs, days of the week, and appropriate auxiliary verbs we’ve learned in class.

Be sure to decide on specific days, times, and locations for your meeting.

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Post Activity and Assignment


Write a short paragraph about what you usually do on the weekend. Then, please post it to your course in the learning management system for your instructor’s feedback or share it with someone else who can give you feedback.

Write the Following Sentences in Tibetan

  1. I woke up at 8:30 yesterday and then went to a tea house.
  2. Tomorrow I have two classes. And after my class, I am going to my house.
  3. What time do you usually wake up on Sundays?
  4. When is your Tibetan language class on Friday?
  5. Are you doing homework tomorrow evening?
  6. What time is it now? When will you eat your lunch?
  7. Do you watch TV in the evening?
  8. How many hours do you sleep on weekends?
  9. How many hours do you study Tibetan language on weekends?
  10. I am going to the library after my Tibetan class.

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