Module 3  Overview

During the third week you will learn:

• to use two different forms of the past tense, one for the immediate past (-ka/-ra), and the other for the more distant, past when the effects or consequences of the action have been completed (-shka).  This form is often used in origin stories and other narratives of beginning times.

• to use the agentive -k suffix (similar to -er in English).

• to describe a quick series of actions in the past by using -k

• to describe habitual actions by combining -k with the past tense of ana.

In doing so you will also make progress in certain life skill areas included in the USDE FLAS language goals.  These include:

• The ability to describe events in the recent past.

• Language for visiting, eating and drinking.

• Language of Kichwa humor.