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1.8 Listening for information

French · Grade 8 · 3 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Weather-action sentences: Quand il fait chaud, je vais nager; Quand il pleut, je porte un manteau de pluie
  • Season and clothing: En hiver on porte un pull; au Kenya, la saison des pluies and la saison sèche
  • Physical features: une forêt, une rivière, des collines, une savane, des lacs, l'océan, des montagnes
  • Kenyan landscape in French: le mont Kenya, le lac Victoria, la savane, la forêt de Kakamega, l'océan Indien
  • Listening for information: two hearings, a note grid (weather / place / action), a key-point check

What you will be able to do

  • identify key points from a spoken weather or landscape text
  • take notes of key points while listening, then use the notes to show what was heard
  • interpret verbal cues (quand, en hiver, il pleut, on porte) from audio stimuli

Key questions

“How do you showcase understanding?”

Lessons

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  1. Quand il fait chaud, je vais nager
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Listen for a weather cue and the action or clothing that follows, including Kenyan rainy and dry seasons.
  2. Forêt, savane, océan: the land you hear
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Name seven physical features in French and catch them inside a short Kenyan landscape listening text.
  3. Showcase understanding: notes, then a sentence
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Listen twice to a weather-and-landscape text, fill a three-column grid, and prove understanding by feeding a key point back.