James and the giant peach

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EngelsMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 1

This lesson contains 13 slides, with text slides.

Lesson duration is: 90 min

Items in this lesson

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What did we do last week & yesterday?

- Reading strategies

- Practised reading comprehension

- Exam texts --> informative (articles, advertisements, flyers, etc.)

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Today's programme

- Reading comprehension & vocabulary building assignment about James and the giant peach

--> Reading comprehension with literature

- Why?

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Taika Waititi reading James & the giant peach

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Reading & listening

You are going to read and/or listen to the first four chapters of James and the giant peach. Film-maker Taika Waititi is going to read it to you and he gets help from some very famous actors. While he is reading, you can read the text too, so you can listen and read at the same time.

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After listening to and reading these chapters, you will make a couple of assignments.
The GOAL is to practise your reading skills, but also expand your vocabulary. The vocabulary exercises will focus on personality adjectives and combines words from Think Unit 6 with words from James and the giant peach.

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Step 1:

I'll hand out the text. Turn to page 1, please.

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Step 2:

We are going to listen to Taika and the actors reading the first chapters to you. While reading, Taika accidentally skips a page. This page is marked green on your pdf. I will pause the video and read this page for you. Then, we will listen further to Taika and the other actors.

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Now listen & read

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Step 3:

You are now going to work on your reading comprehension & vocabulary knowledge while working on this assignment about James & the giant peach.

You may choose to do this assignment on paper or digitally. The digital version can be found in your SomToday messages. If you would rather work on paper, put your hand in the air and I'll hand you a paper version.

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The assignment

The assignment consists of 3 parts: A.) Characterization to help you understand the characters in this story; B.) Imagination to have some fun and be creative and C.) Vocabulary to expand your vocabulary knowledge.

Start with assignment A.) now, please. Try and finish it during this lesson.