Lesson 5 The 57 Bus Writing

• English
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

•  What is writing?
•  Write an interview

Teacher: Open your laptop and login to lesson up. Today our focus is on writing. Make use of the vocabulary that you have learned so far to make your writing more interesting.

Students: Open their laptop and login to lesson up

What is writing to you?

Teacher: Ask students which text types they know and when they write.

Students: Type the texts types they are familiar with and when else they write

•  Article
•  Blog
•  Brochure/Leaflet/Flyer
•  Diary / Journal entry
•  Email / Letter
•  Essay
•  Review

• Letter to editor
  
• Set of instructions
• Social media posts
• Speech / debate
• Interview
• Script / play
• News report
• Proposal

Text Types

Teacher: These are some of the text types you can encounter on a daily basis. You might not need to write all of them but it is useful to know them and how they are set-up. How many of these are you already familiar with?

Students: Listens and then in the next slide writes down what they know

Of the 21 mentioned text types. how many would you be able to write?

021

Teacher: how many text types do you know?

Students: use the slider to indicate the number of text types they are familiar with

Interview Article

There are 3 types of interview articles

• Narrative essay interview
• Question-answer interview
• Personal interview

Teacher: Today our focus will be on interviews. Last lesson you saw a few videos with interviews. Today we are going to look at how to write out an interview

Students: Listen

Features dialogue, when interviewing one or more related people.

Written in first or second person. It closely resembles a question-answer discussion but with direct quotes, the tone can be formal or informal.

Show the interview from a particular point of view. It takes the emotional aspects of the discussion and requires a story-like format.

Narrative Essay Interview

Question Answer Interview

Personal

Interview

Teacher: Which interview type belongs to which description? Drag and drop the interview type to the description you think is relevant.

Students: Read the descriptions and connect the interview type that they think is relevant.

Create pairs for the next assignment

•  In your duo select 1 of the 3 types of interview styles
•  Research how to write your interview style
•  Write an interview on the topic of gender, peer    

      pressure or foster-care

Teacher: In duo you will select an interview style text type and then together write an interview of 200-250 words

Students: Create duo and select the interview style

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In your notebook write five of the most essential vocabulary terms, with a sentence using the word.
In this space only write the words

As you leave class today you will receive a topic you will need to consider.

Next lesson we will be discussing these different topics so it is useful to do some research before our next lesson.

You will be put into a group of 5-6 people for this discussion.

Topics

1.  Do you think it is important to prosecute hate crimes? Why or why not?
2. Should juveniles be charged as adults if they commit serious crimes? Why or Why not?
3. What do you think is harder, admitting you’ve done something wrong or forgiving someone who has wronged you? 
4. Have your friends ever encouraged you to do something dangerous or mean? Did you cave to peer pressure?
5. Why do we send people to prison? Do you think it helps in the reduction of crime? If so how, if not then why not?
6. They say that the adolescent brain is different to an adult’s brain. Do you agree with this? Why or Why not?