Housing and Community

Adeola Agoke

Housing and Community

Can Do Statement

Talking about houses, including types and designs
Talking about household objects as well as their location and uses
Talk about some houses in communities and neighborhoods

Vocabulary List

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Practice: Interpretive Communication

Presentational Communication

Context: Tolú is talking about a house she will purchase in the future.

Transcript:

Bí ó tilẹ̀ je wípé n kìí se oníṣòwò ilé ati ilẹ̀, mo fẹ́ràn láti kà nípa oríṣiríṣi ilé àti láti rí orísirísi ilé ńlá. Ní ọjọ́ iwájú mo fẹ́ ra ilé olókè méjì tí ó ní yàrá márùnún àti yàrá ìgbàlejò. Mo fẹ́ràn ilé ìdáná tí kò tóbi púpọ̀ ṣùgbọ́n tí ó lẹ́wà gan an ni. Bákan náà, mo fẹ́ kí ilé mi ní balùwẹ̀ mẹ́ta, yàrá ìgbafẹ́ , ibi ìjẹun, àti fàráńdà ńlá. Ilé mi kò ní ní àjà ilẹ̀ nítorí pé mo ń gbé ní Florida ṣùgbọ́n mo fẹ́ràn àjà ilẹ̀ gan an ni.

Practice: Presentational Communication

Using the transcript, find the words that describe a house
Click on the audio recording and restate them
Tell someone about your house.

Interpersonal Communication

Context: Báyọ̀: and Toyin are talking about their home countries and the differences in the houses they live in.

Transcript:

Tóyìn: Ilé bàbá mi wà ní ìlú Àkúrẹ́ ní Nàìjíríà. Ilé wa tóbi gan an.

Báyọ̀: Ṣé ilé pẹ̀tẹ́sì ni ilé yín ni?

Tóyìn: Rárá, ilé ilè ni.

Báyọ̀: Hàà, bàbá mi náà ní ilé ilè ní Amẹ́ríkà, ṣùgbọ́n mo fẹ́ràn àwọn ilé olókè bíi èyí. (Saheed points to some buildings outside)

Tóyìn: N kò bìkítà nípa ilé olókè rárá, nítorí pé ilé wa ní yàrá púpọ̀, ó tún ní fẹǹsì gíga àti àyè púpọ̀ láti ṣeré.

Báyọ̀: Mo fẹ́ràn pé ilé yín ní àyè púpọ̀ àti yàrá púpọ̀. Ilé tiwa kò ní fẹǹsì rárá.

Tóyìn: Kílódé?

Báyọ̀: Ní ilé Amẹ́ríkà, a kìí máa ń kọ́ féǹsì gíga, ṣùgbọ́n àwọn ilé míràn máa ń ní àjà ilẹ̀.

Tóyìn: Ó yé mi. Fẹ́ǹsì kíkọ́ ṣe pàtàkì fún àwọn ilé ní ìlú mi.

Practice: Interpersonal Communication

Read the transcript
Formulate two questions about housing and ask your peer to respond to them. Switch roles.

Grammar Notes

Possessive pronouns.

Pronouns are a category of words that are used in place of a noun. Possessive pronouns, however, express ownership or possession. In such expressions, possessive pronouns indicate the owner of a particular item or thing, and this can be expressed thus:

Use of possessive pronouns in the first, second, and third persons,. In this instance, possessive pronouns function as noun qualifiers in the sentence.

Examples:

Aṣọ mi nìyí. “This is my cloth.”
Ilé yín wà ní ìdojúkọ títì Mọ́kọ́lá ní Ìbàdàn. “Your house is located across Mọkọ́lá road in Ìbàdàn.”
Ọ̀rẹ́ wa kò fẹ́ràn ìrẹsì jọ̀lọ́ọ̀fù. “Our friend does not like jollof rice.”
Ọmọ wọn ń gbé ní àdúgbọ̀ wa. “Their child is livingin our neighborhood.”
Ṣé aṣọ ẹ nìyí? “Is this your cloth?”

Housing and Community

Vocabulary List

Practice: Interpretive Communication

Presentational Communication

Transcript:

Practice: Presentational Communication

Interpersonal Communication

Transcript:

Practice: Interpersonal Communication

Grammar Notes

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