4. Telling time

4. Conversation : எத்தனை மணிக்கு?

 

Goal: Practicing telling time

 

 

Translate the conversation below into Tamil.

 

Kamala: I want to eat. Where shall we go?

Vimala: What are you going to eat?

Kamala: I want dose. Want coffee also.

Vimala: I don’t want dose. I want puri.

Kamala: Shall we go to Swagat?

Vimala: Shall go there. Where is it?

Kamala: It is behind our college.

Vimala: When shall we go?

Kamala: We should go there after six o’ clock. There will be a big crowd before that.

Vimala: I must go home before eight o’ clock. We will go to the restaurant at half past six.

 

(Help: dose (தோசை), puri (பூரி) are snacks; Swagat (ஸ்வாகத்) is the name of a restaurant; ஓட்டல் includes restaurant; college is காலேஜ் (the Tamil word is கல்லூரி); big ‘பெரிய’; crowd ‘கூட்டம்’)