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Spanish · Grade 4

Listening and Reading for Meaning

Learners who have finished the Foundation route become more independent listeners and readers. They predict before they listen or read, catch the gist on a first pass, pick out numbers, times and places in announcements, infer feelings and purposes from clues, and work out new words through word families before summarizing what they understood.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 minutes
  • Listening and reading check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Use prediction (title, images, situation) and a first 'gist' pass to identify what a short spoken or written text is about.
  • Identify specific details such as numbers, times, dates and places in spoken announcements and written texts.
  • Infer feelings, reasons and relationships from clues, and identify a text's purpose (to inform, invite, persuade or entertain).
  • Work out new words through word families and affixes (pan → panadería, panadero; útil → inútil) and summarize a short text in one or two sentences.

Lessons

  1. Predict, then get the gist 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  2. Catch the details 6 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  3. Read between the lines 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  4. Word families and summaries 6 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  5. Listening and reading check 9 questions at the end

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