Chapter 3 Review

🎯 Lesson Goal

This lesson brings together everything from Lessons 11 to 14. By the end, learners will be able to combine what they have learned to:

• Talk about food and drinks, order politely and ask the price (Lesson 11).
• Name jobs and workplaces, say what they do and where they work (Lesson 12).
• Talk about future plans and ask others about theirs (Lesson 13).
• End a conversation politely (Lesson 14).
• Use all of these together in one short, natural conversation.

🎯 Lesson Introduction

You have now completed four practical lessons. Each one gave you a set of words and sentence patterns for a real situation: ordering food, talking about work, making plans and saying goodbye. In real life these situations follow one another in a single conversation. Two people greet each other, ask about work, order something to eat or drink, talk about tomorrow and then part politely. This review lesson helps you bring everything together. You will go back over the key words and patterns from each lesson, study one master vocabulary list, see how the structures work side by side, read a conversation that uses all four topics, and finish with practice questions and a writing exercise. Take your time, say each example aloud, and notice how the same small patterns return again and again.

🔁 Review of Lesson 11: Food & Drinks

In Lesson 11 you learned to name common foods and drinks, ask for them politely and ask the price.

Key pattern: Nĩngwenda + [food or drink]. For example, Nĩngwenda cai. (I want tea.) For an action, use Nĩngwenda kũ- + verb: Nĩngwenda kũnyua cai. (I want to drink tea.)

🔁 Review of Lesson 12: Jobs & Workplace

In Lesson 12 you learned to name jobs and workplaces, ask what someone does and say where you work.

Key patterns: Nĩ ndĩ + [job] (I am a…). Nĩ ndĩrutaga wĩra + [place]-inĩ (I work at/in…). The ending -inĩ means “at” or “in”.

🔢 Review of Lesson 13: Future Tense

In Lesson 13 you learned that Kikuyu shows the future with a marker inside the verb. There are two: -ga- / -ka- for tomorrow and after, and -gũ- for today.

Key patterns: Nĩ + subject marker + future marker + verb. Tomorrow and after: Nĩngarĩa (I will eat later). Today: Nĩngũrĩa (I will eat now). Questions: Ũgeka atĩa? (What will you do?), Ũgathiĩ kũũ? (Where will you go?), Ũgathiĩ rĩ? (When will you go?), Ũkoona ũũ? (Who will you meet?).

💬 Review of Lesson 14: Ending a Conversation

In Lesson 14 you learned the phrases that end a conversation politely.

Key pattern: Nĩtũkoonana + [time] (We will see each other…). Swap in thuthaini, rũciũ or wiki ĩgooka.

📚 Master Vocabulary

Here are the most important words from Lessons 11 to 14 in one list.

🧩 Key Structures at a Glance

These are the patterns that appear again and again. Notice how a few small patterns can be filled with many different words.

🗣️ Combined Example Sentences

💬 Combined Example Conversation

Two friends meet at a café. This conversation uses all four topics: greeting, jobs, ordering and prices, future plans and saying goodbye.

✍️ Writing Exercise