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Background
Contents

BACKGROUND

In 2002 the Western Cape Education Department approached African Voices to develop a simple Xhosa textbook for their staff, particularly those situated in training centres. In 2003 the Department, together with African Voices, published IsiXhosa Silula Xhosa is Easy, a very easy to use textbook which assumes no prior knowledge of Xhosa or understanding of general grammatical principles. The book makes use of what Tessa refers to as the repetition and drilling approach, which can be boring for some but a great help to others! Answers to all exercises are given at the back of the book and any teacher using this text will also be given a teacher guide with picture games to aid conversational acquisition.

BOOK CONTENTS

LESSON	TOPIC
One	Xhosa Sounds
Two	Xhosa Sentences
Three	Molo sisi! Unjani? Hello sister! How are you?
Four	Noun Classes
Five	Hamba kakuhle! Goodbye!
Six	Ngubani igama lakho? What is your name?
Seven	Uvela phi? Where do you come from?
Eight	ASSESSMENT ONE
Nine	Iinkcukacha zakho. Your details.
Ten	Yimalini? How much is it?
Eleven	Wenza ntoni? What are you doing?
Twelve	Iphi? Where is it?
Thirteen	ASSESSMENT TWO
Fourteen	Injani imozulu? What is the weather like?
Fifteen	Uziva njani? How do you feel?
Sixteen	Ndiyaniva! I understand you!
Seventeen	Injani? What is it like?
Eighteen	ASSESSMENT THREE
Nineteen	Imibala. Colours.
Twenty	Ufuna bani? Who are you looking for?
Twenty-One	Ufuna ntoni? What do you want?
Twenty-Two	Banjani abantwana bakho? How are your children?
Twenty-Three	ASSESSMENT FOUR
Twenty-Four	Kukude kangakanani? How far is it?
Twenty-Five	Kukho iibhotile ezingaphi? How many bottles are there?
Twenty-Six	Nini? When?
Twenty-Six	Nini? When?
Twenty-Six	Nini? When?
Twenty-Seven	Eyiphi? Which?
Twenty-Eight	ASSESSMENT FIVE
Twenty-Nine	Kutheni? Why?
Thirty	Belunjani uhambo lwenu? How was your trip?
Thirty-One	Hamba ngqo! Go straight!
Thirty-Two	Thatha le fomu uyizalise. Take this form and fill it in.
Thirty-Three	Ikhaya lam. My house.
Thirty-Four	ASSESSMENT SIX
Thirty-Five	Kufuneka sibe neburglar bars! We must have burglar bars!
Thirty-Six	Ndicela ninganxoli kakhulu! Please don't make such a noise!
Thirty-Seven	Ndiyakwazi. I can.
Thirty-Eight	Ukuba. If.
Thirty-Nine	Ingakanani? How much is there?/How big is it?
Forty	Wagqibela nini ukumbona? When did you last see him?
Forty-One	ASSESSMENT SEVEN
Forty-Two	Dictionary Work
Tables
Answers to Activities