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close this bookBasic English for Adults (Republic of Kenya, 72 p.)
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View the documentIntroduction
View the documentLesson 1. Greetings
View the documentLesson 2. Introduce Yourself and Friends
View the documentLesson 3. Name and Address
View the documentLesson 4. My Family
View the documentLesson 5. Numbers
View the documentLesson 6. My Body
View the documentLesson 7. Colours
View the documentLesson 8. Revision
View the documentLesson 9. Our House
View the documentLesson 10. What are You Doing?
View the documentLesson 11. What is the Time?
View the documentLesson 12. Today and Yesterday
View the documentLesson 13. Where do they Work
View the documentLesson 14. Directions
View the documentLesson 15. Filling in Forms
View the documentLesson 16. Writing a Letter
View the documentLesson 17. Revision

Lesson 10. What are You Doing?

1. Look at these pictures:


Sit


Stand


Walk


Run


Read


Write


Clap


Sleep


Eat


Clean your Book


Clean the floor


Build

2. Read these sentences:


Figure

That is Halima.
She is sitting under the big tree.
She is reading a book.
She is sitting on a brown stool.
Halima is wearing a read dress.
She has black shoes.

3. Work in pairs. Sort out the following to make a story

His son is listening.

Machoka is talking to his son.

They are standing on a path.

He is standing with his son.

This is Machoka.

4. Work with your partner and talk about what you do at home.

5.

Read some more


This is grandmother.


She is sitting on stool.


She is cooking.


What is she doing?


She is _ _ _ _ _ _




Figure



6.

Kamau has a jembe.


He is digging in his shamba.


What is Kamau doing?


He is digging.


Where is Kamau digging?


He is digging in _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _




Figure



7.

Muthoni has a big house.


She is standing near the window.


She is cleaning the window.


What is Muthoni doing?


She is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _




Figure

8. Make some more sentences:

I
He
She

am
is

walking.
talking
eating.

They

are

clapping.
cleaning.

We


reading.
writing.
laughing.

9. Practice speaking in groups

Discuss and write down what you do in the morning.

10. Make some more sentences:

She has
He has
We have
They have

seventy
a hundred
eighty
ninety

cows.
trees.
eggs.
goats.

11. Look at the pictures. What are the people doing?


Visitors opening the door


Visitors with a lady


All of the sitting


Visitors drinking tea


Visitors leaving the house


Lady washing cups

New words

Sit stand walk talk run write clap sleep eat open build wear cook dig clap laugh call knock