Week 6

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Week 6 period 1

English

Reminder: we only speak English during this lesson

Today's programme

- looking back at last week's lesson
- looking forward
- vegans reading text
- reading
- working online

Week 1 12 September	Introduction and activating your online license
Week 2 19 September	Placement test, activating and working on NuEngels Online
Week 3 26 September	Reading placement test TOA, working online
Week 4 3 October	Restaurant vocabulary and working online
Week 5 10 October	Grammar: future , vocabulary and working online
Week 6 17 October	Listening and working online
Week 7 24 October	Writing; a letter to future self
Week 8 8 November	Electives
Week 9 16 November	Testweek ; test during class

Looking back at last week's lesson

- future tense
- working online

Looking forward:
test in the week of 11-15  November. Reading, Use of English and Language Card.

Regular programme

Challenging programme

Looking forward

- challenging programme for MOTIVATED B1 students

- Cambridge B2/C1 or even C2 (Alkmaar/Hoorn and in class)
- Cambridge or B2 exams in year 2


individual talks during the second hour

Exercise

In a few seconds you will see a picture.
Write down as many questions as you can come up with about this picture. Use when, what, where, why, which when making questions

vegan

What is a flexitarian do you think?

Are you vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian? Why or why not?

Video exercise

While watching write down the words that you don't know.

Would you like to become vegan/vegetarian? Why or why not?

Exercise 

We are now going to read a text about vegans

vegans leuke leestekst

Working online

We are now going to work online

What did you learn and what did you miss this lesson?

Listening

The environment

What does 'environment' mean?

1. het milieu
2. de omgeving
3. de wereld

the environment

How do you say the following words in Dutch?
1. cotton
2. pollution
3. convenient
4. lazy
5. single-use

Questions

1. Why were plastic bags originally invented?

2. Where and when were plastic bags originally invented?

3. Why are plastic bags part of the plastic problem today?

4. About the production of plastic, paper and cotton: Which material is the worst for our planet?

5. What bag should you use if you do not want te kill the planet?

Why were plastic bags originally invented?

To help save the planet

Where and when were plastic bags originally invented?

In Sweden in 1959

Why are plastic bags part of the plastic problem today?

Because we throw them away after using them just once.

About the production of plastic, paper and cotton; which material is the worst for our planet?

Cotton

What bag should you use if you do not want to kill the planet?

Any bag, just use them many times.

Prince Harry

The last couple of years, Harry and his wife, Meghan, were in the news quite often. Can you tell why?

Name as many Royal family members as you can

What is the name of the mother of William and Harry and what happened to her?

Harry said: 'there was leaking but there's also planting of stories?
Who do you think was leaking and planting stories?

Are you team William or Harry?

William

Harry

Harry has also written a book, 'Spare'.
Why do you think he wrote this book?

Reading 'Prince Harry' 

We are now going to read a text about Prince Harry's new book, Spare.
First, you do the gap fill exercise and then you can choose one out of the three other exercises that you would like to make.

Expert groups

You will be divided into groups.
Each group will receive the name of one person of the Royal Family. In groups you will find out as much information as you can about this person

Queen Elizabeth
King Charles
Prince William

1. Name
2. Age
3. Nickname
4. Where does/did he or she live?
   5. What are their royal duties 
6. To whom is/was he or she married and name two children 
7. 2 funfacts about this person 
8. Create a family tree around this person with as many people as you can come up with and tell how they are related

Speaking exercise practicing personal contact

To practice our speaking skills I found a teacher in Finland who also has a class of students who are willing to share video's with us.

To practice your speaking skills, to get to know each other, and learn some more about studying abroad, you are each going to make your own 1-minute video about yourself and your school, you will receive a video from the Finnish students in return.

Video length: 1-2 minutes.

Video subject: presenting your school, interview or other (appropriate) subject of choice.

Video structure: greeting, introducing yourself/group and the subject, followed by other content.

Student guide:

1. Prepare a plan/script, which the teacher will check and approve.

2. Shoot the video and send a link to it to your teacher. At this point the recipient is still a mystery. Neither do we know when you may expect a reply (may be after the course even).

3. Use a cell phone to make the video. Make sure you appear on it. If you include other people, ask for their permission. In public places you are generally allowed to film people from afar without permission.

4. Upload the video to a streaming service of your choice, such as your school cloud, YouTube, iCloud, or any other service that allows you to get a copiable link to the video, which the teacher can forward to a recipient.

5. NB! Make sure the link shared is viewable , not private.

Tips for the video

- introduce yourself (name, age, hobbies, etc.)
- tell something about your education (how long is it, what do you learn)
- inform the students about your school (give them a short tour for example)

Read the text. For each definition, find the word or expression it describes in the text and write it down.

1. becoming lower, moving downwards

2. a hole so deep that it cannot be measured

3. careful studies of something to learn more about it

4. to make worse

5. a small part of something

6. easily becoming covered with water because of heavy rain or high water

7. making people worried or upset

8. toward the inside of something

9. causing a lot of damage or destruction

10. at the present time

11. a very large or important city

12. a general direction of change

13. to flow or spread slowly through small openings

14. large holes that suddenly appear in the ground

15. the act or process of getting something out of something

16. water that collects below the surface of the earth

Choose the best summary.

1. For some people, the new year is so terrifying that it feels like the ground is sinking.
2. Millions of people are put at risk because the earth’s land surface is slowly sinking.
3. Research shows that the earth’s ground is sinking, but for most people it is not a big deal.
4. The earth’s ground surface is actually sinking, but that is just a natural process

What does subsidence mean?

1. All the research that is done to understand the sinking of the earth’s ground surface.
2. The financing of projects to do something against the sinking of the ground.
3. The phenomenon that the earth’s ground surface is sinking slowly.
4. The sinking of the ground in North America and Europe over the next 20 years.

Why have the US started to move some cities away from the coast?

1. Last year’s presidential election shows that people have to be spread more democratically.
2. The Indonesian succes of relocating Jakarta shows that this is a good idea.
3. These cities could become flooded because of the sinking of the ground plus climate change.
4. To make room for the millions of people that will lose their homes because of the sinking ground.

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Exercise 2

- I will send you an exercise via the teams chat. Everyone of you should download it on your PC.

- I will divide the class into subgroups of a maximum of 3 persons
- In this subgroup you will do the exercise I just sent you.
- you will get 10 minutes for this exercise and then we will return back in class to discuss the answers.

Irregular verbs

irregular: --> the verb changes into its own, unique form

 

For example: eat --> ate

I eat an apple every day.

I ate an apple yesterday

Kim and Pim draw a picture every day.

Kim and Pim drew a picture yesterday.

What can you tell about the past simple?

(10 minutes)

Exercise 1: Fill in the past tense of the verb (on a paper, or in an online document)

 begin →

 feel →

 get →

 draw →

 bring →

 know →

 take →

 pay →

 meet →

 leave →

 wake up →

 read →

 sleep →

 ride →

 build →

Exercise 2: create 3 sentences yourself with a past tense in it, you can choose from the above words.

 

The past participle 

(I, you, we, they) have
(he, she, it) has

regular	irregular
-ed	- own form

Examples 

I have worked there for five years.
Daan has read a book.

We have seen a cow.

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What is the past tense of 'see'?

1. seed
2. saw
3. sawed

What is the past tense of 'buy'?

1. buyed
2. bought
3. boughted

What is the past tense of 'play'?

1. pleed
2. plaid
3. played

What is the past participle of 'know'?

1. have/has knowd
2. have/has knew
3. have/has known

What is the past participle of 'eat'?

1. have/has eaten
2. have/has ate
3. have/has eated

What do you know about the past participle?

Exercise

We will be making a short exercise about the past simple/present perfect, I will send it to you via the teams chat.