week 3.1 wip/ cloze text

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Today

- Wip 18-19

- quick word formation revision

- Use of English: cloze texts

- Maybe time to do ReadTheory

Borrowed my book? Return it this week please <3

Words in Progress 18

Spend 15 minutes making this

Tips: 

- work in pairs: one finds the meaning of the words, the other guesses what kind of word should be in the sentence (verb, something about a dislike, a descriptive word....) 

- before translating: which wordelements to you recogize? illiterate: literate: literature: something about reading

Words in Progress 19

Spend 20 minutes on this: 

use the last 5 minutes to do a wordformation exercise: 

linguistics --- > linguist/lingo

See how many words you can transform using the root

For extra challenge: https://www.etymonline.com/

Type them in a document so you can copy/paste on the next slide

which wordformation options did you find?

1. attend (attentive, attention)

2. affiliated (affiliation)

3. mediocre

4. pass

5. multiplied (multiplication, multiply)

6. illliterate (literate, literature)

7. scientists (science, scientific)

8. pre-school

9. enrolled (to enroll)

10. co-educational (education)

11. linguistics (linguist, lingo)

12. graduates (to graduate, graduation)

13. gymnasium  !not our gymnasium! (gymnast)

14. diligent (diligence, diligently)

15. extra-curricular (curriculum)

16. assessed (assessment, assessor)

17. phd/doctoral

18. comparatively (compare, comparison)

19. A*

20. compulsory (compulsion, compulsive)

UoE

on the next slide I have a little exercise for you. Wordformation :)

Multiple-choice cloze: what was it again?

Choose the correct option in a text: 

• Collocations​
  
• Fixed expressions​
  
• Phrasal verbs​
  
• Meaning
• Type of word

Tips:

Read thoroughly: Read the passage thoroughly to get an idea of the passage. Read slowly and gain an understanding of the text. Once the theme of the paragraph is clear, it becomes easy to fill in the blanks.

Link the sentences together: Always remember, it is a passage, so the sentences are linked to one another. Never make a mistake of treating every sentence an individual one.

Type of word to fill in: Look at the blanks carefully and try to assess which kind of word to put in the blank. Words can be based on grammar, prepositions, tenses, vocabulary etc.

Tone: Passage may contain some specific tone like narrative, critical, sarcastic, humorous etc. So, always make a right choice of a word.

Negate options: eliminating wrong choices can help.

Key words: Pay close attention to key words/ clues in the sentences before and after the given blank.

PHOBIAS
The goal of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) ______ between a fear and a phobia.

1. choose
2. distinguish
3. select
4. pick

It's (2) ______ usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of us actually have a phobia of these things.

1. very
2. absolutely
3. quite
4. truly

However, only a very small proportion of us actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) ______ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to seek treatment for what could potentially be a phobia.

1. cause
2. make
3. create
4. give

By far the most (4) _______________ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia.

1. standard
2. average
3. normal
4. common

The word derives from Greek and (5) __________ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing condition in which people (6)... going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise.

1. precisely
2. specifically
3. literally
4. exactly

The word derives from Greek and (5) ... means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing condition in which people (6) ______________ going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise.

1. dodge
2. avoid
3. miss
4. slip

Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (7) ________ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear.

1. undergoing
2. taking
3. experiencing
4. doing

Drugs may be prescribed to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (8)__________ with their fear and conquer it.

1. acceptance
2. terms
3. realisation
4. comfort

COLLOCATIONS:
All that was left for breakfast was some ............ bread and tea

1. stale
2. rotten
3. sour
4. rancid

FIXED EXPRESSIONS:
I ............ sight of an old friend when I went to the bank yesterday

1. saw
2. caught
3. set
4. gained

PHRASAL VERBS:
He intends to ….. up a computer business with his brother.

1. put
2. lay
3. get
4. set

CONNECTING WORDS:
He decided to go, ….. his family begged him not to.

1. although
2. despite
3. otherwise
4. if

MEANING:
Emma fell down and …....... her knee.

1. skimmed
2. grazed
3. rubbed
4. scrubbed