H4 reading Tuesday

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome to English class

Today's lesson goal:

You can use different reading strategies 

to get information from a text

Which reading strategies
do you know?

Prior knowledge - Translate the word 'paragraph' to Dutch:

Reading strategies:

1. Skimming: just looking at the text - title, photos, writer

2. Reading globally: read the first and last sentence of every paragraph: what is it about?

3. Reading the questions

4. Scanning and/or intensive reading: looking for the answers + finding the proof / connections in the text

Let's check! How?

11 B 

1+2 together

3+4 in LessonUp

12+13 in LessonUp

11B 1+2

Let's discuss the answers

Page 17 Stepping Stones

11B 3 Look at question 4. Which reading strategy do you need?

1. scanning
2. intensive reading

11B 4 Give at least one description based on the text (of 1 name, also mention the name):

12 1, page 19
How is the subject of the text introduced?

1. By explaining...
2. By giving examples..
3. By pointing out ...
4. By showing ...

12 2, page 19
What point is made about red carpets in paragraph 2?

1. Even in early times, the red carpet symbolised prestige
2. In ancient Greece ... for ceremonial purposes
3. Only the most important members of society ...
4. It was considered the work of gods

12 3, page 19
What element of the colour red is pointed out in paragraph 3?

1. The fact that Renaissance nobility ...
2. The prominence of red in Renaissance art
3. The symbolism of the colour

12 4, page 19
How does paragraph 4 relate to the statements made in paragraph 3?

1. It changes them
2. It contradicts them
3. It supports them

12 5, page 19
What do paragraphs 5 and 6 describe? How the red carpet ...

1. changed from a hotspot to a place ...
2. developed into a marketing tool...
3. gradually became a place associated with film celebrities

12 6, page 19
Paragraph 2 describes how the red carpet played an important part in a Greek play. Which phrase in the text refers to this passage? Write down the paragraph number and the phrase.

13, page 19
1. Celebrities are just _________ people like you and me.

13, page 19
2. The miners stumbled upon ____________ cave paintings

13, page 19
3. First, we'll need to _________ what the fluid contains.

13, page 19
4. The bus _________ passes by our stop.

1. frequently
2. contemporary
3. ordinary
4. mortal

13, page 19
5. He didn't _________ for a moment

13, page 19
6 Lorna is a great _________ to our team

13, page 19
7. Being a ________ means being a living creature.

13, page 19
8 Orange is a colour many people ___________

1. contradict
2. associate with
3. contemporary
4. dislike

Welcome H5B!

Finish your 0-meting

Finished? Work in English Essentials/Holmwoods

Work hard in silence.

Holmwoods:

Pass 4 English Essential assignments: 

Reading or Listening

-> Work hard, in silence. No phones!

Watching & listening

Question 1: How do squats exactly benefit your brain activity? (be specific)

Question 2: Why is oxygen deprivation mentioned in this video?

Question 3: What happened to the mice?

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