Concord: singular 'near me' demonstratives
Have available in the classroom a number of objects, at least one from each of the following classes:
M-WA
M-MI
LI-MA
KI-VI
N
Pick up or touch one item at a time, and say Hiki ni kiti, or whatever the object is. Have the students do the same. Be sure that they touch the item they are talking about, so as to preserve the difference between hiki and hicho or kile. Then begin to use the question Hii ni nini? or, if you prefer, Hiki ni kitu qani? When the students can reply to this question, let them question and answer each other. Answer their questions about names of objects that you have not yet talked about. Finally, fall silent and let them use this new material in their own way.
If a demonstrative word (this, that, these, those) accompanies or refers to a noun, its form depends on the noun. This can be seen in the 'near me' demonstratives for singular nouns:
| meza | hii | 'this table' |
| table | this | |
| mlango | huu | 'this door' |
| door | this | |
| kitu | hiki | 'this thing' |
| thing | this | |
| mtu | huyu | 'this person' |
| person | this | |
| dirisha | hili | 'this window' |
| window | this}} |
See Synopsis, par. 18 .)
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