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Second Quarter First year Hindi.
(The activity takes place in the Computer Lab. Student work in pairs.)
(available from here)
Task: Look at the picture and write up a story using the compulsion construction as much as possible (H. H. van Olphen's First Year, p. 147).

Purpose: To give the students the opportunity to work in a meaningful, contextualize and visually supported situation.

Target: writing, grammar, vocabulary skills.

yh fl kI duk;n hw) duk;n ke bIc me' Ek a;dmI %@; Ûa; hw) yh a;dmI flv;l; hw) îse p;nI pIn; c;ihye mgr îse fl de%ne p@te hw')zo$e bCce fl le j;E\ge) sb logo' ko fl %rIdn; hotee hw') tb flv;le se b;t krnI hotI hw) apne pirv;r ke ilye flv;le ko duk;n me' fl becne p@te hw')

This is a fruit store. A man is standing in the middle of the store. He is the fruitseller. He needs to drink some water, but he has to watch the fruits. Kids are going to take fruits. All people have to buy fruits. Then they have to talk to the fruitseller. He has to sell fruits for his family.
Mia
Allison

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