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4.1.1 Conversational Skills

Indigenous Languages · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Beginning and ending a conversation with respectful greetings and closings
  • Face-to-face conversation between strangers on environmental conservation
  • Theme vocabulary: environment, conserve, nature, rivers, pollution, animals, plants, indigenous trees, deforestation, afforestation, protect, poachers

What you will be able to do

  • identify the common ways of beginning and ending a conversation for self-expression
  • take part in a conversation for effective communication
  • value the importance of conserving the environment

Key questions

“How can we make conversations respectful?”

“Why is it important to conserve the environment?”

Lessons

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  1. Beginning and ending a conversation
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Name respectful ways to open and close a talk in your indigenous language, then mark those phrases in a model conversation.
  2. A conversation about conservation
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Role-play two strangers talking about trees, rivers or waste in your language, then agree one club action.