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Rang Mháire (Mary's Class)

Last Time (August 23)(back to top)

Announcements

• Unprecedented! We'll be back at Central on the 13th, starting at the same time as everybody else.
• Thanks to all the Irish Fair volunteers...and make sure to ask Mary O about her wonderful adventures trying her Irish with the musicians!
• We aren't sure yet what's happening with the Ren Fest, if anything, but drop me a line if you want to hear of any developments.

Warmup

• BC 33 review
• Cén dáta é an lá inniu?
• Cén scéal

Last class(es)

Another worksheet, this time still sticking with the Round 1 verbs but giving you the imperatives and asking for the verbal noun and future tense forms. We didn't finish it -- e-mail me if you missed class and would like the chance to catch up with your classmates.

Stenson Unit 8 was pretty straightforward, so I said to consider whether there were any questions to bring up in the new term, and we'd use the little time we had left to move on to....

PI 25 -- When I assigned it, a) I didn't catch that it was two pages long, and b) that there were those silly "now rewrite these sentences in the eighteen prescribed ways of notably minor variation" sections. Thanks to those of you who bore up under the pressure. (I never mean for you to actually rewrite all those sentences, though it's a good idea to take a moment for each section and make sure you know what it is that they're looking for.) We went through the first "cuir Gaeilge ar" section and left the other one for later.

Homework

. . . if you choose not to goof off over break:

• The rest of the latest verb worksheet
• The rest of (the sensible part of) PI 25, if you haven't done the whole thing already

Previous Week (August 9) (back to top)

Warmup

• proverb: Bíonn grásta Dé idir an diallait agus an talamh.
• BC 33 readthrough - in Connemara I think they tend to say "ar aon chaoi" more than "cibé ar bith," but the latter is still quite common and good to know about.

Cén scéal

Hurrah to those of you who had something to share!

Last class(es)

Last time we had a fairly loosely structured evening, looking at verb flashcards and whatnot. I suggested that you look at the Round 1 flashcards over the fortnight before tonight's class, and this time I had a sheet of verbal nouns for you to list the matching imperatives. Hint: Keep working on this list of verb forms....

Stenson Unit 7 is about personal names. We didn't do to much with it in class, but we did look at a few oddities. If I remember I'll ask Nancy if the one thing is a typo. (In person, I mean, not via e-mail.) Update: It is a typo!

We didn't do anything with PI this time but I assigned lesson 25 as homework. It's on the future tense, but only looks at Type I verbs. We did a quick refresher on forming the future tense for both flavors:

• Type I - add -f(a)idh
  bris --> brisfidh
  dún --> dúnfaidh
• Type II - take off the -igh (if present) and add -eoidh or -óidh
  éirigh --> éireoidh
  oscail --> osclóidh

Homework

• Conversations worksheet (e-mail me if you need a .pdf of it)
• Stenson Unit 8
• PI 25

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