H4 - P1 - Final Week - Lesson 4

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H4 - Final Week - Lesson 4

Lesson Goals

Today's lesson:

- You will have learned more about Halloween

- You will have practised your reading skills

Today's lesson

Halloween

Testweek preparation

- Reading

Halloween

• + 2000 years ago

• 31st of October

• All Hallows' Eve (31 Oct)

• All Hallows (1 Nov)

• Started in Ireland > Samhain

Samhain 

• Celebrated in Ireland, the UK & Northern France

• To mark the end of the summer months & harvest time

• Darker colder months were associated with death

• They thought the ghosts would return to earth

When do we celebrate Halloween?

1. 30 October
2. 31 October
3. 1 November
4. 2 November

How many years ago was Halloween first celebrated?

1. 1500 years ago
2. 1000 years ago
3. 2000 years ago
4. 1250 years ago

Where does Halloween originate from?

1. The United States of America
2. Canada
3. The United Kingdom
4. Ireland

What Celtic festival does Halloween originate from?

1. All Hallows Eve
2. Samhain
3. Harvest time
4. Hallowmas

How much money do the Americans spend on Halloween?

1. 6 billion
2. 6 million
3. 600 thousand
4. 60 thousand

What is the most popular Halloween candy?

1. Snickers
2. Mars
3. Milky Way
4. Oreo

What do you call a carved Halloween pumpkin?

1. Jack-O'-Lantern
2. Jill-O'-Lantern
3. John-O'-Lantern
4. Jane-O'-Lantern

What do people do on Halloween?

1. Trick-or-Leave
2. Tick-or-Sweet
3. Treat-or-Leave
4. Trick-or-Treat

Why do people wear costumes on Halloween?

Which Halloween
traditions
do you know?

Reading Practise

Step by Step: MC questions

1. Read the title

2. Look at the pictures + other aspects that stand out

3. Read the (first) question (not the answers!)

4. Read the part of the text that goes with the question

5. Think of the answer and see if it's one of the options

6. If it isn't eliminate the ones that are definitely incorrect

7. Choose between what's left, perhaps reading the 

8. Repeat steps 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 until all the questions are answered

9. New text: start at step 1

Practise time

You will get an old havo exam to practise with

Keep in mind what your strategy is during this task (step 1, 2, 3, etc.) You will be asked about it at some stage. 

Good luck!

More Reading Practise

You will have a reading test in the testweek 

Practise as much as you can

Use: www.examenflow.nl 

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Lesson Goals

Today's lesson:

- You have learned more about Halloween

- You have practised your reading skills

Well done! 

Dictionary Race

I will show you a word from an exam text on the board

- You will look up the word as fast as possible using a dictionary

- Raise your hand as soon as you have it

- You will read it aloud for the class

Why do you think we're doing this? 

Which types of questions did you encounter? Which type did you find most often?

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Practise time

You will get the old havo exam you were working on from me

Keep in mind what your strategy is during this task

I'll walk around to ask you how it's going and to help you

Good luck!