Preserving a time contrast

ዛሬ አልሄድም፤ ነገ እሄዳለሁ። A student summarizes this original Amharic teaching sentence as the speaker will never go anywhere. A classmate proposes a narrower reading: the speaker is not going today but is going tomorrow. The teacher asks them to compare the two temporal expressions with the negative and affirmative constructions, rather than select a familiar word in isolation. The exercise supplies no destination, reason for the delay or actual booking. Students must not invent those details to make their response sound fuller. They are working with a complete short example in bilingual guided mode, not an audio recording or an official examination item. After choosing, they will write their own short Amharic example preserving a meaningful change of day.