V4 Theme 3 A Reading

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

How was your weekend?

Lesson objective

- Reading to retrieve information

- Writing accurate sentences with given words

Hoax

- What is a hoax? Look it up if you don't know the meaning.

- Have you ever heard of a hoax?

Hoax

​An act intended to make somebody believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant

 

• He was accused of using a bomb hoax to empty a rival restaurant.
  
• Detectives are still investigating the hoax calls.
  
• The emergency call turned out to be a hoax.

Stepping Stones 

Katern 2

Read Text 1 on pages 6-7.

Do exercises 3 + 5 on pages 6-9

Finished?

Check Vocabulary on page 35 and look up words you don't know.

Check your answers

1A

2A

3C

4A

5A

6A

7A

plot

studying

real

evidence

complex

enormous

on purpose

cable

abundant

following

hold responsible

dreadful

conspiracy  / samenzwering

poring over  / bestuderen

genuine / echt

proof / bewijs

intricate /  ingewikkeld

huge /  heel groot

deliberately / opzettelijk

wire / draad, kabel

ample / uitvoerig, overvloedig

 in the wake of / volgend op

responsible blame / de schuld geven

terrible / afschuwelijk

Write down a sentence with one of the synonyms from exercise 5 A. Use at least 6 words.

Tomorrow's class

• Check the feedback on your letter in Teams - Opdrachten
• Write down three things that you take from it.

Correcting categories (page 11)

A = letter writing conventions (address / date; layout; contractions).

B = language (spelling and grammar mistakes; wrong words).

C = points mentioned in the exam instructions.

D = style (expressions; coherence; word variation).