G3 Newsround & speaking

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Welcome everyone!

Lesson plan

• Riddles 
• Homework check
• Newsround listening practice
• Speaking practice

Learning Goals

You can write down information from an English video

You can successfully talk about a familiar topic with a classmate

You've practiced your reasoning skills

Riddle 1

What has six faces but does not wear makeup, and twenty-one eyes but cannot see?

Answer

a dice

Riddle 2

What word contains 26 letters but only has three syllables?

Answer

the alphabet

Riddle 3

Poor people have it, rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?

Answer

Nothing

Riddle 4

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it, can neither feel nor see it. What is it?

Answer

A coffin

Homework check

Your homework was to listen to one podcast episode and write a short summary about it. 

Find a classmate who listened to a different podcast and tell each other about what you listened to (in English of course).

BBC newsround

Make notes while listening to this short BBC newshound fragment. There will be open questions afterwards.

www.bbc.co.uk

What was said about flooding in the fragment?

What was said about the titanic?

What happy news was shared?

Speaking practice

On the subject of happy news, take a moment to think of the highlight of your last week or something great that happened to you recently.

Team up with your neighbor and discuss who will be speaker 1 and who will be speaker 2.

Speaking practice

Speaker 1, take 1 minute to tell speaker 2 about your happy news.

After 1 minute, we'll switch roles and speaker 2 will have 1 minute to tell speaker 1 about their news.

Time left?

Please go to Learnbeat and continue working on the Grammar basic assignments.