Week 3: E writing and grammar

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Planning for today

Testing if you did your homework

Did you study? 

Did you do the work in the book? 

Which word is the odd one out and why?
elevator-escalator-information desk

Make a sentence with the word: "over het algemeen".

How do we call this in English?

Make a sentence with the verb: "overstappen", your sentence should be atleast around 6 words.

Homework was: 

A watching & B theme words

Topic for today

• We use quantifiers to give us extra information about how much  
  
  
• For today, we are going to look at when do we use which quantifier.
  
• Terms that we are going to talk about: countable and uncountable nouns

Quantifiers, why do we use it?

Countable

Uncountable

(A) few, we use it for countable nouns!

Look at the examples:

1. Look miss Koolwijk bought a few t-shirts yesterday.

&

2. Mister Hulst has few playstation because he only games on pc.

(A) little --> Uncountable nouns

There is little you can do about it.

&

Mister Harms takes a little bit of milk in his tea.

A lot of / lots of --> (un)countable 

A lot of / Lots of students like to cycle everyday.

&

He sprayed a lot of / lots of perfume on my shirt.

A little bit

A few

Few

Lots of

Question of the day?

When do we use much and when do we use many?

at the end of this lesson you need to answer this.

Time to work

Do: E Writing & Grammar

Question of the day?

When do we use much and when do we use many?

Homework

Finish C reading in your book on pages 18 t/m 21

Study: Vocabulary A C and Theme Words

Break 

This testweek: writing

What do you have to pay
attention to?

Pay attention to

•  Word order
• Tenses 
• Articles

Stick to the assignment 

Let's check the rubric one last time

What will you be graded on? 

Situation 

The school newspaper is working on a article about alcohol and teens. You have been selected to write about your experience and opinion on alcohol. They aim of the article is to get first hand stories and give pupils advice. 

The newspaper has a few demands when it comes to your piece, these are on the next slide -> 

What could the test look like? 

• Your story must have 200 words at least

• Your story must have 3 past simple / present perfect sentences

• Your story must have 5 adverbs or adjectives

• Give your opinion about alcohol, do you like it or not? 

• Give advice to the reader about alcohol, should they try or not? 

This is your final chance to practice/ask questions/ get feedback

Homework for our next lesson:

Finish C reading in your book on pages 18 t/m 21

Study: Vocabulary A C and Theme Words