Ninth graders learn the Swahili past tense (wakati uliopita). Swahili verbs stack pieces together: subject + tense + root. The past marker is -li-, so ni-li-andika (I wrote), ni-li-enda (I went), ni-li-kula (I ate). Now they can narrate the past.
Students will be able to…
What did you do yesterday? How do you talk about the past in Swahili?
Project each item and have students answer about the Swahili past tense.
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What did you do yesterday, and how do you say it in Swahili?
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Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Intermediate-Low).
Presentational: narrate past events.
Interpretive: understand tense markers.
Compare verb-building systems.
Interpersonal: talk about the past.
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Have students write one thing they did yesterday in Swahili (“jana ni-li-___”). A printable Swahili past-tense sheet is in the World Languages library.
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