SE Speaking: texts 4 & 5/ C1 Advanced: Writing part 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Tuesday, February 18th

Programme

- 10 minutes of silent reading

- SE Speaking: texts 4 & 5

- Hand-out: C1 Advanced writing (Magister SW)

- Work on Writing part 2 (SB Unit 12)

Read your novel

SE Speaking: text 4

Another casualty of war: teenage years

SE Speaking: text 4

Another casualty of war: teenage years

1. The tone of the remark is humorous. It is a joke.

2. They don’t have anything else to do (line 13).

3. soldiers/ combat gear/ rifles/ trenches/ military (trucks)

4. It refers to the city of Sloviansk (line 51).

5. It provides the reason why the teenagers remain in Sloviansk.

6. After a strike which does not hit the teenagers, they act in a silly way. This is how they deal with a scary situation.

SE Speaking: text 4

Another casualty of war: teenage years

7. He has not been to school for more than a year (line 112), he wants to be a chef (line 113), if all goes well, he will graduate next year (line 119), he gets lessons online (line 120).

8. If the soccer stadium were full of people, a rocket strike might kill a lot of them.

9. Sonia: One day, she went for a walk with a friend when the shelling suddenly started (line 191).

Rostyslav: There was a nearby explosion at 1 a.m. when he was playing a video game in his room (line 200).

SE Speaking: text 4

Another casualty of war: teenage years

10. a. ‘me’ (line 1) refers to the soldier / father.

 b. ‘you’ (line 3) refers to the daughters.

 c. ‘they’ (line 5) refers to the people in faraway lands.

 d. ‘you’ (line 6) refers to the daughters.

 e. ‘I’ (line 7) refers to the soldier / father.

 f. ‘you’ (line 10) refers to the daughters.

 g. ‘them’ (line 11) refers to the person bringing flowers (‘a bouquet’).

 h. ‘ours’ (line 12) refers to the soldier / father and his daughters.

 i. ‘you’ (line 13) refers to the daughters.

 j. ‘we’ (line 15) refers to the soldier and his wife / all Ukrainians

 k. ‘our’ (line 16) refers to the father (soldier) and the mother / all Ukrainians

SE Speaking: text 4

Another casualty of war: teenage years

11. a. He wants his daughters not to write about the war (line 1) nor of misery (line 8). Neither does he want them talk to others about the war (line 11).

 b. He probably wants them to be happy and it hurts him to see that their life is being overshadowed by the war. Apparently, his daughters have been writing about the war and all the pain it causes them. In lines 7-8 he writes that he would like nothing more than to take out all the sorrow (mental pain) from their letters. He tries to do this by shifting their focus to the everyday beauty around them and invites them to be happy about the small things they see and experience.

12. The countries where Ukrainian refugees went.

13. If you meet people who are friendly to you.

14. In lines 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 13-14, 15-16.

SE Speaking: text 5

Mappa Mundi: A monastic marvel

Mappa Mundi: A monastic marvel

1. Read the text on p. 18 - 21

2. Work on the hand-out with 2 assignments in pairs.

C1 Advanced writing

Find the hand-out: C1 Advanced Writing on the Magister SW.

Instructions and examples of all the different forms of writing you're supposed to do on your C1 Advanced exam.

C1 Advanced writing

Time to practise!

Turn to SB Unit 12 and choose which assignment to do:

- SB p. 161 A letter to a friend

- SB p. 167 A letter to the editor of a newspaper

Continue writing on Thursday.

Thursday

- Bring your SB, device , SE Speaking reader and novel to class

- Study exam words: Basiswoorden