Periode 3- Week 1

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

• Studiewijzer bespreken
• English Connect: Business Partner Unit 3.1 
• Dark Tourist

Unit 3 -Projects

3.1 Project management

At the end of this lesson you can use vocabulary related to project management.

3.1  Lead-in

Discuss your views on these comments. Which view do you most agree with in each pair?

1a Having a detailed schedule increases stress. It's better to have a more relaxed approach to work.

b The only way to do everything you need to do is to organise your life and have a detailed schedule – and follow it.

2a Everyone should have a personal budget. Controlling your money is the key to financial happiness.

b It's important to enjoy life and not to worry too much about how you spend your money.

3.2 - Exercise 2

You're going to watch a video about London's Millennium Bridge, which opened on 10 June 2000 but was closed two days later. Do you know or can you guess why the bridge was closed?

 Watch the video and check your ideas. 

Did the engineers solve the problem? How?

3.2 - Exercise 3

Watch the video again and decide if these sentences are true or false.

1 The problems with the bridge were a nightmare because many people were hurt.

2 Some people crossing the bridge felt ill.

3 The designers expected there to be some movement in the bridge.

4 The project managers did not try to reduce risk.

5 After closing the bridge, one of the most important jobs was to identify the problem and find a solution.

6 The problem was caused by people reacting to the slight movement of the bridge.

7 Fixing the bridge required a lot of extra time and money.

8 Now, Londoners don't like using the bridge because they feel afraid of it.

Vocabulary

Verbs: something you do 

Nouns: persons, places, things, animals, ideas

They were singing.

 Singing is something they like to do.

3.1-Exercises

• Exercise 5: Complete the sentences from the video using the words and phrases that are given.
• Exercise 6: Complete the table with the correct word forms.
• Exercise 7A: Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

Watching/Listening

What do you think “Dark Tourism” means?

Watching / Listening

Have you ever been to a dark tourism spot, or would you like to visit such a spot?

Watching / Listening

Watch the documentary and answer the questions in English or Dutch.

Answers

1.  An earthquake followed by a tsunami. 
   
2.  0.20 
   
3.  Because of the high radiation level in the area. ( The radiation level is higher than the radiation level in the area around Chernobyl, where no one is allowed to go.) 
   
4.  They are in a dusty area and the dust is particularly radioactive; it can cause cancer. 
   
5.  An amusement arcade/ hall 
   
6.  Grandma’s 
   
7. They don’t trust the food because they don’t know whether it is grown locally (and thus radioactive) or not. 
   
8.  The gravestones were heavy enough to withstand the tsunami. 
   
9.  (Container bags containing) low-level radioactive soil and plants.