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L = LL = E = P =
one learner several learners English Punjabi
Episode 11.1
. . . what did the thin snow man have?
I know, glasses
no (P) enoo . . . enoo (points to book) e What’s this called? This (E) (not glasses)
([Tailifoon])
enoo aaxde ne (E) pipe (P) jeRe (E) [sigrat](P) hunde, This is called a pipe. Do you know cigarettes? Naa? Ik hundaa? . . . e jeRaa lakRii There’s a-this-that’s made of wood. (BA mimes ac- tion of holding a pipe. Filling with tobacco, and smoking pipe) daa banyaa e. ede vic tabako paade naa? Fer onoo They put tobacco in this, then they light this. (E) light (P) karde, naa? Taa fer enoo piinde naa? (E) [sigrat] And then they smoke this like cigarettes (E) pipe (P) aaxde. Kii e? a pipe. What is it?
(E) pipe, pipe, pipe
[sigrat] (P) piinde? [They/he] smoke cigarettes?
(E) do you know my cousin
he’s got a pipe?
he not got a pipe he’s got he . . . he (smokes cigarettes) everybody
he smoke everyday?
shall we give one to this snowman then? Like that, put it in his mouth? Oh he is that alright?
yeh OK
(Data source: Martin-Jones and Saxena, 1996, p. 117–8)
The class teacher (CT) was discussing a story called The Two Snow- men. One was tall and thin and the other was short and fat. The answer she expected to her question “What did the thin snowman have?” was “a pipe.” One learner volunteered “glasses” instead. At
CT: L1: BA: CT: L: BA:
LL: BA: L: BA: L: BA: CT:
LL: CT:
