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Week 48: Passive tense and theatre
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Middelbare school
mavo
Leerjaar 3,4
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Slide 1 - Slide
Today:
Word of the week
The passive tense
Thanksgiving
Slide 2 - Slide
Word of the week:
Looks like the Dutch translation
A verb
rise and fall irregularly
in number or amount
Slide 3 - Slide
Fluctuate
A verb
rise and fall irregularly
in number or amount.
Slide 4 - Slide
Try to make a sentence with the word 'fluctuate'
Slide 5 - Open question
The passive tense
My sister got attacked by pengiuns
Penguins attacked my sister
*Disclaimer: this is not based on true events, no sisters or penguins were harmed in the designing of this lesson*
Slide 6 - Slide
Slide 7 - Video
Do you have any idea?
Slide 8 - Open question
Active
The subject performs an action
My boyfriend plays the guitar
Passive
The subject is receiving/undergoing an action
The guitar is being played by my boyfriend
Slide 9 - Slide
Passive voice
Quite popular in news episodes
In the passive voice it is not that important WHO did the action, the action/the result is most important
Let's go back to my example:
Slide 10 - Slide
Example
My sister got attacked by pengiuns
I want to emphasize that my sister was a victim
Penguins attacked my sister
I want to emphasize that it was penguins that attacked
Slide 11 - Slide
More innocent example then
I did the laundry / the laundry was done by me
I washed the car / the car was washed by me
Slide 12 - Slide
How do you form a passive sentence?
Slide 13 - Slide
Now you try
It may be anything
Slide 14 - Open question
Let's practice
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercises.html
Slide 15 - Slide
Slide 16 - Slide
Slide 17 - Slide
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was celebrated last week
What is this holiday about?
How has is changed throughout the years?
Slide 18 - Slide
Mayflower
Many many years ago (1620) a ship sailed from Leiden to Plymouth America.
On board were the so called settlers who were looking for religious freedom
Slide 19 - Slide
The first thanksgiving
The settlers met the indigenous
people of America and were welcomed
with open arms.
The first thanksgiving was to celebrate
the first succesfull harvest
Slide 20 - Slide
What do they celebrate?
Well, they don't really agree on that
They celebrate it anyway
Relgious freedom, good harvest, being able to stuff yourself with turkey?
Slide 21 - Slide
What is typical for thanksgiving?
Slide 22 - Open question
Typical thanksgiving
Stuffed turkey
Eating until you feel as stuffed
as the turkey is
Pumpkin pie
Plomping on te couch to watch
the parade
Slide 23 - Slide
The thanksgiving parade
A tradition since 1924
A massive parade presented by a department store, broadcasted live on television
Is this the only parade? No..
Slide 24 - Slide
Slide 25 - Video
Would you want to celebrate thanksgiving once?
Why?
Slide 26 - Open question
Slide 27 - Video
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