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1.8 Listening for Information
Mandarin Chinese · Grade 8 · 3 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Weather: 下雨, 热, 冷, 晴天; 今天很热 / 今天下雨
- Physical features: 森林, 河, 山, 湖; 大裂谷, 沙漠
- Kenyan landscape: 肯尼亚山, 维多利亚湖, 卡卡梅加森林, 印度洋
- Listening for information: two hearings, a note grid (weather / place / action), summarise
What you will be able to do
- highlight weather and landscape vocabulary from audio-visual texts
- summarise the key information from a short oral weather or place text
- show an interest in understanding key information in an aural context
Key questions
“How can you improve your ability to retain information while listening?”
Lessons
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今天下雨: 热, 冷, 下雨
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHear and say 下雨, 今天很热 and 今天很冷, and match a Kenyan season to the line.
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森林河山湖: Kenyan features in Chinese
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizName 森林, 河, 山 and 湖, and match them to Kenya’s forest, river, mountain and lake.
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Three notes, then a summary
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizListen twice to a weather-and-place text, fill weather / place / action, and say a three-point summary.