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1.8 Interactive Speaking, Listening for Information

German · Grade 8 · 3 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Weather lines: Es ist heiß, Es ist kalt, Es regnet; Kenyan season: die Regenzeit (also die Trockenzeit)
  • Physical features: der Wald, der Fluss, die Savanne, der See, der Berg
  • Feature sentences: Der Berg ist hoch. Der Wald ist grün. Der Fluss ist lang. Der See ist groß.
  • Activities under weather: Bergsteigen, Tee pflanzen, Boot fahren; Wenn es heiß ist... / In der Regenzeit...
  • Listening for information: two hearings, a note grid (weather / place / action), a key-point check

What you will be able to do

  • recognize specific weather and landscape vocabulary for comprehension
  • extract specific information from a short listening text on weather or physical features
  • appreciate the role vocabulary plays in listening and speaking about Kenya's land and sky

Key questions

“Why is vocabulary important?”

Lessons

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  1. Es ist heiß, Es ist kalt, Es regnet
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Name hot, cold and rain, add die Regenzeit for Kenya, and listen for the weather word first.
  2. Wald, Fluss, Savanne, See, Berg
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Name five physical features, match them to Kenyan places, and say Der Berg ist hoch.
  3. Weather, place, action: listening for information
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Listen twice to a weather-and-land text, fill a three-column grid, and name an activity: Bergsteigen, Tee pflanzen or Boot fahren.