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2.8 Reading Comprehension

German · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Weather sentences in a paragraph: Es ist heiß / kalt / windig; Es regnet; Die Sonne scheint; 28 Grad
  • Kenya's two seasons in German: die Regenzeit, die Trockenzeit — not a failed version of four European seasons
  • Landscape in a text: der See, der Wald, der Ozean, der Berg, die Savanne; Kakamega, Victoria, Mount Kenya
  • Wenn es... action sentences; infer clothing or activity only from the weather line beside it

What you will be able to do

  • infer meaning of words from simple weather and landscape texts
  • extract key weather and place facts from a short paragraph
  • match a weather clause to the action the text actually names

Key questions

“Which physical features can we identify around us?”

Lessons

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  1. Extract the weather before the coat
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Pull heat, sky, season and Grad out of a Kisumu paragraph, and refuse snow or a fourth season the writer never named.
  2. Name the lake, then the weather on it
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Read landscape lines for See, Wald, Ozean and Berg, match each Kenyan place to its weather, and infer an activity only from a Wenn-clause.