Transcript आप क्या करते हैं? What do you do?

Hindi 1: Lesson 7a
आप क्या करते हैं? What do you do?`
तुम्हारी उम्र क्या है? How old are you?
• Go round the class asking each other how
old you are, remember the answer is:
• मेरी उम्र बीस साल की है
I am twenty (lit ‘my age is of 20 years’)
• Note down people’s ages.
• Can you find out the youngest and oldest
person in the class? We will discover if
you can figure it out.
मैं ऑस्ट्रेललया में रहता हूँ
I live in Australia
• वीना – मैं लहन्दी बोलती हूँ।
Vina – I speak Hindi.
• पीटर - मैं अूँग्रेजी बोलता हूँ।
Peter – I speak English.
• verb stem (i.e. verb – ‘naa’
ending found in dictionary form
+ ता/ते/ती + हूँ/है/हो/हैं = ‘Present
Imperfective’ actions done as habits or states
आप क्या बोलते हैं? What do you speak?
• Lets find out what languages we can
speak.
• We will ask some of you to say a language
you speak. For instance:
•मैं जममन बोलती हूँ
I speak German.
मैं गलित पढ़ती हूँ I study maths
• Activity: try to write down a subject (लवषय
nm.) you are studying as above.
• You may need some of the following:
• गलित maths
• भूगोल geography
• लवज्ञान science
• अर्मशास्त्र economics
• लिककत्सा medicine (or मेलिलसन)
तमु क्या करते हो? What do you do?
आना- एनयूएस
• Activity: as a class make up statements to go with twelve
pictures for instance:
• मैं रोज ला रोब आता हूँ। I come to La Trobe daily.
PS रोज adv. daily, & nm. day
रे लियो - सुनना
टीवी - देखना
काम - करना
लिट्ठी - ललखना
अख़बार - पढ़ना
के ले - खाना
लसनेमा - जाना
िाय - पीना
लपयानो बजाना
दवाई - लेना
पैसा – देना
फु टबॉल खेलना
हम लहन्दी बोलते हैं
We speak Hindi
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When more than one person is doing an
action then if there is a male involved the
verb is masculine plural.
रक और कार जाती हैं Truck and car go. If the
doers of the action are things then it
agrees with the thing nearest to the verb.
Activity: describe what is happening in
the following pictures.
बातिीत करना
गाना गाना
गाडी िलाना
जाना
देखना
बात करना
मैं कारख़ाने में काम नहीं करता
I don’t work in a factory
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नहीं before the verb means don’t,
the final हूँ है हैं हो etc. is optional.
आप क्या देखते हैं? What do you watch?
• In small groups interview each other about
what you do and don’t watch
• आप क्या देखते हैं? What do you watch?
• मैं एनसीआईएस देखता हूँ I watch NCIS. etc.
• then get one of you to be a spokesman
and tell the class what you watch.
आप कहाूँ रहते हैं? मैं फ़नी क्रीक में रहता हूँ।
Where do you live? I live in Ferny Creek.
• रहना = to live, as in ‘live in a place’
• despite being spelled rah- the verb
here sounds like reh- (ह when not
followed by a long vowel sounds ‘eh’)
• also note the difference in spelling
• मैं ‘I’
• में ‘in’
सोना महूँगा होता है Gold is expensive
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Statements of lasting validity
An extra होना before the final verb, in the
forms होता होते होती turns a normal
indicative statement into a statement
about a lasting truth.
दो और दो िार होते हैं। 2 and 2 are four.
Activity: Describe a quality for each of
the things in the following pictures
Some may need हर समय (at) all times
महूँगा
ठं िा
सुंदर
(आइसबगम nm.)
अच्छा
गरम
(आग nf.)
मीठा
ककतना है? How many?
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Lets do some maths!
दो और दो िार होते हैं। 2 and 2 are four.
Would be easy…
We will tell you ask some more
तो so…
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तो can used in several ways
beginning a statement, tends to mean so
after most words (mostly not verbs) for emphasis
begins a clause in when… then.. and if… then…
statements (these are studied later)
आप क्या (काम) करते हैं ?
What (work) do you do?
by title
मैं दुकानदार हूँ।
I am a
shopkeeper.
by location
मैं दफ़्तर में काम
करती हूँ।
I work in an
office.
by occupation
मैं टैक्सी िलाता हूँ। I
drive a taxi.
मेरे लपताजी दफ़्तर में काम करते हैं
• Activity: Occupations
• Then each try and write down what your
parents/siblings do.
• Then divide into groups and interview
each other about what our parents do.
• Then appoint a spokesman to describe
what the families of the group do.