1.8 Oral Expression

• Keywords on activities related to weather and environment (钓鱼、游泳、农业、水稻种植、滑雪、沙滩排球、阳光浴、冰钓)
• Word clouds; paraphrasing key points in own words; answering questions on an audio clip
• Role plays on plans for given weather (……吧); researching climates in Kenya and China

• extract keywords and expressions from oral presentations
• explain the main ideas in different contexts
• value articulating ideas logically

“How important is the logical articulation of ideas in communication?”

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1. Weather and activities: listening for keywords
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Listen to a recording and mark keywords for activities people do in sunny, rainy and snowy weather.
2. Word clouds and paraphrasing
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Make a word cloud of keywords from a recording and paraphrase key points in your own words.
3. Role plays: plans for the weather
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Create short role plays suggesting plans for different weather with 吧, and compare climates in Kenya and China.