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2.2 Reading Comprehension
German · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Extended-family words in a paragraph: der Großvater, die Großmutter, der Onkel, die Tante, der Cousin, die Cousine, der Neffe, die Nichte
- Hier ist / Das ist + possessive: Hier ist mein Onkel Otieno; Das ist meine Tante Njeri
- Name, age, town and job as facts to extract; mein / meine agreement with the family WORD
- Comprehension questions; infer who lives where only from the lines; a note that families differ in shape
What you will be able to do
- identify family expressions from reading texts
- read a short family text for comprehension (name, age, town, job)
- infer only what the text actually supports
Key questions
“Why are reading texts important in learning a foreign language?”
Lessons
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Underline the person, then the fact
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizFind Onkel, Tante and Großeltern in a paragraph, then pick the name, age or town that sits beside them.
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Answer from the tree, not from home
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRead each family box as a sentence, answer who-questions from the page, and refuse facts the text never wrote.