Earl W. Stevick, Adapting and Writing Language Lessons… (1971)
“ 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 ”
Earl W. Stevick, Adapting and Writing Language Lessons… (1971)
“ 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) . ”
Earl W. Stevick, Adapting and Writing Language Lessons… (1971)
“ DRILLS BASED ON INVENTORY OF SHORT SENTENCES: 8. Six major tenses (cf. Learner's Synopsis, par. 28, 29, 33, 36) CUES RESPONSES KEY EXAMPLE: Ki tu hiki ni kizuri. [This thing is good.] Kitu hiki ni kizuri. TENSE MODIFIERS: sasa [now] Kitu hiki ni kizuri sasa. jana [yesterday] Kitu hiki kilikuwa kizuri jana. kesho [tomorrow] Kitu hiki kitakuwa kizuri kesho. Wanataka nini? [What do they want?] Wanataka kitu hiki kiwe kizuri. [They want this thing to be good. ] ingewezekana [if it were possible] Ingewezekana, kitu hiki kingekuwa kizuri. ”
