Renaissance & Write for rights

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Friday, December 9th

Programme

- CAE Friday

- Literature: introduction Renaissance

- Human Rights Day: Write for Rights

CAE Friday

Reading and Use of English Part 4
Key Word Transformations

Who can solve most of last week's key word transformations in 7,5 minutes?

KEY 1/3

1. The service at the hotel didn't come up to my expectations.

2. She has committed herself to taking care of her mother.

3. But for Ann's beauty, John wouldn't be marrying her.

4. It came as a surprise to me that Martin hadn't married Jane.

5. The tornado resulted in the deaths of almost sixty people.

6. Peter regretted that he had not had the chance to visit Dublin.

7. Can anyone come up with a solution to this problem?

8. You must be wondering why it has been so long since I contacted you.

KEY 2/3

9. Are you accusing me of not telling the truth about what happened?

10. He made a very quick decision without giving enough thought to the matter.

11. Recently, there has been a decrease in the number of people who are out of work.

12. You shouldn't have been so rude to him, however however bad his behaviour OR however badly(-)behaved he was.

13. The books did not cost as much as I had expected.

KEY 3/3

14. My sister always did her homework before watching television.

15. We seem to have run out of bread.

16. I would be surprised if the weather got warmer.

17. These kinds of problems can/ could be prevented in many ways.   

18. There  was no point in his going OR was no point in him going to the shop without any money.

Renaissance

• Read the introduction on page 29

Can you put the kings and queens in the correct order?