Mastery checkpoint: a school day and city route without a script

Where we are on the map

The support is a route rather than a poster to memorise. Find the starting point, trace the arrows, and name the meaning of each step. Then hide the map and rebuild it on a blank sheet.

A real situation

A new learner must reach a lesson and then travel to a library. They see only your privacy-safe map and ask questions in an unexpected order. Guide them from timetable to destination without a memorised speech.

Listen and respond

Listen: Бүгін менің үш сабағым бар. — I have three lessons today.

Listen: Бірінші сабақ сағат тоғызда басталады. — The first lesson starts at nine.

Listen: Сабақтан кейін кітапханаға барамын. — After class I go to the library.

Listen: Ол жерге автобуспен барамын. — I go there by bus.

Listen: Аялдамадан кейін солға бұрыламын. — After the stop I turn left.

Listen: Кітапханада тыныш сөйлеу керек. — You need to speak quietly in the library.

How to practise

On the first listen, hide the text and identify only the situation. On the second, reveal the Kazakh line, point to its meaning units, and repeat after the recording. On the third, remove the model, change a place, time, or direction card, and produce a new sentence. The recording supplies a pronunciation model; compare your speech with it or ask a live speaker to check it.

The precise model

Successful work contains ten observable actions: three school places; two days or subjects; an exact time; a distinction between қайда and қайдан; a movement goal; two matching instructions; a means of transport; one precise rule; a question to the partner; and a repair after the map changes. A polished prepared text cannot replace a response to a new question.

The support signal

ОРЫН → КҮН → УАҚЫТ → ҚАЙДАН/ҚАЙДА → БАҒЫТ → КӨЛІК → ЕРЕЖЕ → 8/10

The limit of the rule

The checkpoint tests a functional task rather than memory for wording. Other familiar words are welcome when meaning and forms stay precise. Course audio is a model and does not assess the learner’s voice. Real addresses, a child’s route, and a private timetable do not belong in the project.

Predict before the explanation

Before reading the rule, inspect the new cards and choose a form by meaning: where an action happens, where a route starts, where it ends, when an event starts, or which rule applies. Record the prediction, then explain which signal confirmed or changed it.

Rebuild it without the prompt

Hide the page and draw the support from memory in sixty seconds. Use it to say three lines: the familiar model, one changed line, and one entirely your own. If a link is missing, reveal only that link, hide the page again, and rebuild the whole chain.

Find and repair the mistake

A learner recites the old route perfectly but still turns right after the stop changes. Stop the script, ask a clarification question, and rebuild only the affected section. A second failure is announcing a time that disagrees with the clock hands.

Transfer to a new setting

Change the situation rather than replacing a single word: use another school, day, time, route, or rule. A partner supplies one unseen card and checks whether your ending still matches the intended meaning.

Change to the My World project

Assemble version 0.3: a five-place school, a weekly table, three clock faces, school and city routes, a transport card, and six rules. Another learner must complete the task using only your explanation.

Exercise

Required. Give a four-minute unscripted tour and meet at least 8 of 10 criteria, including an unseen card. Record the first meaning-blocking error and repair it. Delayed check. After seven days, receive another map and meet 7 of 10 criteria without rereading the block.

Retrieval after 1, 7, and 30 days

• Tomorrow rebuild the support and say four lines without reading.
• After seven days work with a new route or timetable and meet at least 7 of 10 criteria.
• After thirty days use the construction in a safe real setting and mark the support you no longer need.

Next lesson: My usual day: actions from morning to evening