V5B 7-4-2025 45 min

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome! 

You need: laptop, (new) notebook, pen, book

Programme

1. Learning goals

2. Warming up & how to speak more often (10-15 mins)

3. What you can do to improve (15 mins)

4. Make a plan (10 mins)

5. Read your book

6. Round off together

Learning goals

At the end of this lesson...

 

- I will have chosen a way to speak English more often

- I will have made a personalised plan to improve my speaking

Coming up:

3x "Would you rather" questions

- Discuss with your neighbour, in English

- Name at least 2 arguments

- Answer the question

1 minute

Would you rather...
...go to school in onesie pajamas or a superhero costume?

1. Onesie
2. Superhero costume

Would you rather...
...eat a donut filled with mustard or
a cupcake filled with ketchup?

1. Donut / mustard
2. Cupcake / ketchup

Would you rather... have a tiny marching band following you everywhere, playing background music for your life, or a personal narrator who announces everything you do?

1. Marching band following you everywhere
2. Personal narrator announcing everything you do

Something to do every day: 

make a choice!

- You are going to see a number of options

- Have a better idea? That's great :)

- Discuss with your neighbour what you will do & why

- Challenge: do it for 1 week

- Next Monday, we will evaluate

Something to do every day, for 1 week.
Your choice:

Speaking plan explained

Last lesson: feedback from classmate

Homework for today: define 3 personal goals for speaking

Some examples:

Fluency

Challenge: speak English every day (yay)

Vocabulary

- Mindmap

- Vocab for orals (doc)

- Vocab to describe characters (doc)

- ......

At least 1 page in your notebook dedicated to new vocabulary

Pronunciation

- Ways to practise (doc)

Grammar

Listen to native speakers to absorb correct grammar usage: 

- English podcasts 

- films, series, interviews, news 

- specific exercises in class

Show speaking plan

To do now:

Fill in the plan (download it first)

Please note:

Your feedback form and speaking plan 

should be in your notebook

Well done! You...

- have chosen a way to speak English every day

- have made a personalised plan to improve your speaking

Homework for Friday: read your book, pp.1-50

Homework for Monday: evaluate 1 week of speaking English every day (yay)

and always check Magister if there's more

What are homophones?

What are homophones?

Homophones are words that are pronounced the same as another word but differ in meaning or in spelling. 

- Spelled the same: rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise") 

- OR spelled differently: rain, reign, and rein.

The poem gradually increases its use of homophones, which a spell checker would treat as correct. 

According to Zar, 127 of the poem's 225 words are incorrect, though correctly spelled!

About your notebook

Your notebook should....

• have a cover
• look neat
• contain information that will help you remember

(themes, literary devices, emotional responses, questions/ difficult passages, turning points, ...)