1.3 Listening for understanding Identifying key points Vocabulary Attention

• Kenyan town landmarks in French: le marché, la mosquée, l'école, l'arrêt de matatu
• Direction words as listening targets: à gauche, à droite, devant, derrière, tout droit
• Asking and giving an oral route: Pardon, Monsieur. Pour aller au marché, s'il vous plaît ? Allez tout droit. Tournez à gauche.
• Saying where one is going: Où allez-vous ? Je vais à l'école / au marché / à la mosquée / à l'arrêt de matatu
• Focused listening: catch destination, turns, landmarks and end point from two hearings

• identify key points from audio stimuli
• recall details of a spoken route (turns, landmarks, destination)
• listen with focus in order to capture all necessary details

“What do you do to capture all details when listening?”

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1. Le marché, la mosquée: listening for places
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Hear four Kenyan-town landmarks in French and catch à gauche, à droite, devant and derrière on a map.
2. Pour aller au marché: following a spoken route
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Listen to someone ask for and give directions, then mark the route on the town map.
3. Je vais à l'arrêt: capturing every detail
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Listen for where someone is going and recover destination, moves, landmarks and stop from a longer oral route.