2.8 Reading for understanding

• Physical features in a text: une forêt, une rivière, des collines, une savane, des lacs, l'océan, des montagnes
• Kenyan landscape named in French: la forêt de Kakamega, le lac Victoria, la savane, le mont Kenya, l'océan Indien
• Weather-action sentences: Quand il fait chaud... ; Quand il pleut... ; Kenya's saison des pluies and saison sèche
• Inferring meaning of feature and weather words from the sentence around them
• Interactive read-aloud with question-and-answer breaks; echo reading in small groups

• infer meaning of words from simple weather and landscape texts
• read simple texts fluently using the right intonation and pace
• show enthusiasm in reading through exposure to simple varied texts

“Which physical features can we identify around us?”

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1. Qu'est-ce que c'est ? Reading Kenya's features
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Echo-read a landscape text, infer une forêt and une savane from place names, and answer which features are around us.
2. Quand il fait chaud: weather, seasons, action
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Read weather-action sentences, infer Kenya's two seasons from the rain and the dry savanna, and pause at the comma.