Explanation novel assignment & ExamBooster Listening and Speaking practice

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Thursday, October 6th

Programme

- 15 minutes of silent reading

- Explanation of next week's novel assignment

- ExamBooster practice

- Have you finished WB units 16 - 18?

- CAE Friday preparations

Read your novel

Novel assignment

Make sure you've finished reading your novel before Oct. 11th.

Bring your novel and your device to class.

4 assignments to choose from in preparation of your SE Speaking in Test week 3.

ExamBooster

Speaking part 2:

Use the questions and pictures on

p. 105 or p. 107

Speaking part 3 and 4:

Use the questions and word web on p. 111 or p. 113

You can find the audio files on the Magister SW.

ExamBooster

Listening: Mix and match your own CAE listening exam (parts 1 - 4) from the ExamBooster starting on p. 74

-> Do the EXAM TASKS only!

-> Find the audio files on the Magister SW

-> FINISHED? Work on WB Units 16 - 18 or read your novel!

CAE Friday (Key word transformation)

Remember what it looks like?

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and six words, including the word given.
Example:
James would only speak to the head of department alone.
On
James ……………… to the head of department alone. -> insisted on speaking

CAE Friday (preparation)

Reading and Use of English part 4

Key Word Transformation

-> Paper plane transformations!

Let's practise with a hand-out first!

Answers (4 most common categories for key word transformation)

1. This year the rate of unemployment has increased SLIGHTLY LESS THAN IT did in previous years. (comparative structures/ adverbs)
2. It took ages for the speaker to GET TO THE POINT of what the lecture was about. (expressions/ common lexical patterns)
3. The police wouldn’t have interviewed him unless he HAD BEEN (A) WITNESS TO the robbery. (formal structures, including conditionals)
4. No matter how he tried HE COULDN’T COME UP WITH an idea for a really original birthday present. (phrasal verbs)
   

Tomorrow

- Wordlist: study p. 45 and 46

- Study irregular verbs form: to sit - T

For our CAE Friday, I'd like you to think of or look up 2 key word transformation-sentences.