Page:Adapting and Writing Language Lessons.pdf/379

CHAPTER 6

With someone from the family you are staying with, or with your language instructor, visit your neighbors. Using the materials that you have learned thus far, converse about the following matters:

a) What are the names of the people at the household?

b) What are their titles?

c) What is the name of their /sahpw/ and /kousapw/?

d) Where is their cooking place, garbage place, bathing place, stone oven, and outhouse?

e) What are the names of other important places at their household? (For examle, they may have a copra-drying shed; find out what it is called in Ponapcan.)

When you approach the house, remember to use the greeting, /kaselehlie tehnpasen/.

Record any significant information that you may wish to remember below.

Review all the lexical items or new structures that you have learned while carrying out the 'tasks' of this text.