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At the end of chapter one, students will be able to:
greet social peers and elders/teachers appropriately in Khmer
use subject pronoun “I, you, he and she”
ask and respond to very basic questions regarding your name, country using question word “what and where”.
Pre-task: Online Preparation exercises and presentations
Watch people greeting and introducing in the video above. Please slow down the video if you think it is too fast to understand. To slow down the video, click on the wheel icon on the bottom right of YouTube video and click on Playback Speed.
Pause and play, practise saying the sentences out loud.
1. Speaking task: Record yourself introducing in Khmer.
Greeting in Cambodian: The formal and respectful way to say hello in Cambodia is Chom Riap Sua with the salute gesture sampeah (clasping your hands together in a lotus bud form as if in praying and bowing your head). Where you place the sampeah in front of your body depends on the age and relationship of the person you are greeting. The higher your sampeah, and the lower your bow, the more respect you are showing. Please click this link or watch the video below to learn how to greet Cambodian people properly and appropriately.
2. Reading task:
Read the conversation and then indicate the order of the sentences by dragging a number to its corresponding sentence.
Quizlet: Study Set 1
Greeting and self-introduction in Khmer
Please choose study moods on the bottom right of the app.
Read the conversation below and then answer the following questions.
A: Sua-sdey! Sok-sa-baay dtee?
B: Sua-sdey! Khnhom sok-sa-baay. ɔɔ-kun.
A: Khnhom chmuah Sok. Neak chmuah ey?
B: Khnhom chmuah John. Khnhom mook bpii bprɔɔ-dteh aa-mee-rik. Neak mook bpii bprɔɔ-dteh naa?
A: Oh! Khnhom mook bpii bprɔɔ-dteh kam-bpu-jia.
B: Rik-riay dael baan juab neak.
A: Khnhom kɔɔ ey-jəng daer.