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1.1.1 Listening for information

Indigenous Languages · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Listening for specific information from oral texts about indigenous homes
  • Note-taking: names of buildings, people and objects in a homestead
  • Theme vocabulary: home, house, granary, store, visitors, kitchen, shed, farm, stool, chairs, elders, family

What you will be able to do

  • respond to information from oral texts for communication
  • use appropriate vocabulary to construct sentences in the learner’s indigenous language
  • recognise listening for information as a crucial aspect of communication

Key questions

“How should we listen for specific information from a text?”

Lessons

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  1. Listening for facts about a homestead
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Catch names, places and objects from an oral text about an indigenous home, then write notes in your mother tongue.
  2. Homestead words in sentences
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Turn new homestead words into sentences in your language and sketch a mosaic of a typical indigenous home.