PII 2008 Spring 15a [Ceacht a deich]
A chairde, conas atá sibh?
Hope that you had time to study ceacht uimhir a naoi and try the obair bhaile.
Any questions or comments, please send an E-mail ( riomhphost ) to the class.
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* Léigh through the stór focal  for this Ceacht in the Foghlaim section.
* Listen *several times* to the recording of a subset of the stór focal for this ceacht: 10_PII_Vocab.mp3, which is stored in the Group's Files folder, in the sub-folder 'Audio_Vocab'. Read them out *loud* until you are satisfied with your pronunciation.
* Practise using the Flashcards at:  http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/372473
or doing the Crossword at :  http://irish.rownw.com/xwds/l10.html
* Éist to the related sound file for this complete ceacht. It is stored in the usual folder..
[Notes]
Read through chapter 10 in http://www.gaeilge-resources.eu/Files/piiforabhargramadai.pdf

Lesson 10 shows us the conjugation of the present tense of the verbs cuir and tóg.
There is not much one can say about this lesson besides, read it and study the content carefully, and learn it off by heart. 'Cuir' and 'Tóg' are regular verbs so, they're fairly easy to conjugate.  If you know how to 
conjugate one Irish regular verb, you then know how to conjugate 1000s of others with some minor variations.
For a review of how to do a full conjugation of regular Irish verbs, all moods and tenses, click on "Links" on the left hand side of the class page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philoprogress1-15a/ and then click on either the Full Conjugation Of The Verb 'Bris', 'Tóg' or 'Bí'.
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A useful suggestion from Cionaodh's parallel 'progressinirish' yahoo class: 
When learning verbs, there is a practise method called the "progressive drill". What it involves,
is to take each new verb and progress through the conjugation:
ask a question; reply in the negative and counter with an affirmative statement. Then follow up with a question about that last affirmative statement, following the same pattern, only using the next pronoun in the conjugation. Here is an example using a verb from this lesson:
"glan" (clean)
glanaim  		:: An nglanaim?  		:: Ní ghlanaim;
glanann tú! 	:: An nglanann tú? 	:: Ní ghlanann tú;
glanann sé! 	:: An nglanann sé? 	:: Ní ghlanann sé;
glanann sí! 	:: An nglanann sí? 	:: Ní ghlanann sí;
glanaimid! 	:: An nglanaimid? 		:: Ní ghlanaimid;
glanann sibh! 	:: An nglanann sibh? 	:: Ní ghlanann sibh;
glanann siad! 	:: An nglanann siad? 	:: Ní ghlanann siad;
[Question Time !!!]
The Irish spelling convention known as"broad with broad, slender with slender",means what, exactly?

[Homework]
* Translate the sentences in the Revision section in ceacht uimhir a naoi ( 9 ).
Please check your answers versus the Answer Key at: http://www.gaeilge.org/PII/PII-09ak.pdf
You may send any questions, via E-mail to me at my gmail address.
Slán agus beannacht,
Gearóid
PS: Fáilte roimh ceartúcháin ar mo chuid Ghaeilge i gcónaí

Seanfhocal na seachtaine: 	"Trí ní is deacair a thuiscint: Three things hardest to understand:
Intleacht na mban		the intellect of women,
Obair na mbeach		the work of the bees,
			Teacht agus imeacht na taoide	the coming and going of the tide."