Writing task 1: How to stay healthy

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Interaction and writing based on 1 question 

(when lessonup doesn't work on your phone: use the mini whiteboards to share answers with teacher.) 

Guess the question we are going to discuss today

what word was under the feather?

What are tenses?

What word was under the feather?

what word was under the feather?

Tenses

Connectors

time markers

have eaten 

these days 

however

next week 

unlike 

What word was under the feather?

What word was under the feather?

What do you do to stay healthy?
Which tense would you use?

1. I eat
2. I have eaten
3. I am eating
4. I am going to eat

Who can assist please? 

I need someone to write words on the whiteboard 
please? 

Which verbs would you use when answering the question? To stay healthy I .....

Which time markers could you use when writing an answer to the question?

which connectors could you use when writing an answer to that question?

To stay healthy I.................every day

Person A draws the answer. Person B writes the answer so it fits in the sentence above. 

To stay healthy I.................every week. 

Person A draws the answer. Person B writes the answer so it fits in the sentence above. 

Write 3 sentences in notebook

With your top 3 things to stay healthy. 
Don't tell anybody what you have written down!!

Let's guess what .....has written down. 

Write the top 3 on your whiteboard using just a word or two per item. 

When corona started, ................., I stayed in bed a lot

1. a couple of months ago
2. last month
3. days ago
4. last week

I wasn't healthy at the start, but ................., I make sure I eat healthily and exercise.

1. tomorrow
2. in the future
3. these days
4. last week

I don't work out every day, ......... my brother who is very fit

1. in addition to
2. unlike
3. even though
4. for example

...................., eating healthy you should also sleep enough

1. first and formost
2. because of
3. in addition to
4. for example

Add time markers (and connectors) to your story. Check the verbs.  

Read it to your partner and ask which time markers you can add and check the verbs. 

Which time marker do you think was used most often?

Which verb (linked to the question) do you think nobody used?