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CHAPTER 4 MUTUALLY COMPLEMENTARY MATERIALS (SWAHILI) ROUNDUP OF UNEMPLOYED TO BEGIN ON MONDAY

[An announcement by the head of Dar es Salaam region in remarks addressed to 195 people who were leaving to begin agricultural work in a bush area. 'These were some of 600 people who had enrolled for this work because they were unable to find work in 'the city. Some of the people who will be rounded up have no land or parents, and it is for this reason that the government has prepared the new settlement at Mkata.]

UHURU 30 March 68

A number of ways to develop language skills based on short newspaper stories had already been illustrated in the Foreign Service Institute's unpublished (Appendix T, pp. 387-390). These included such ordinary devices as sentence translation, blank filling (to focus attention on various classes of features), substitution and transformation drills, and instructions to use certain words in sentences. The same devices could obviously have been applied to the items that had been collected for this project, but to have done S9 would have only partly met the objective of Phase 2. It remains to be demonstrated: