Checkpoint test lesson 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Year 2

Today

Hour 1:Homework check

      What you said

       Grammar quiz

                                       Fronted adverbials - practise

                                             Prepositional phrases - practise

What you said...

Nouns/verbs

Autobiography

Fronted adverbial

The meaning of words

Punctuation

Give an example of a verb

Which of these is a pronoun

1. Amsterdam
2. Tomorrow
3. He
4. Laughing

Which of these is a proper noun?

1. Amsterdam
2. Tomorrow
3. He
4. Laughing

Which of these is a verb?

1. Amsterdam
2. Tomorrow
3. He
4. Laughing

What is a preposition?

1. Tells us more about the noun
2. Tells us more about the verb
3. Is stuck to the start of a noun to change it
4. Tells us where or when something happened

What is a phrase?

1. A very short sentence
2. A group of words giving extra information
3. A saying people use to describe something
4. A part of time

Which sentence is gramatically incorrect? Tip: focus on the adverb!

1. Finally, the test week was over!
2. The test week finally was over.
3. The test week was finally over.
4. The test week was over, finally!

A fronted adverbial goes after the verb

1. True
2. False

Which of these is a fronted adverbial?

1. I went to the park at lunch
2. I went to the park
3. At lunch, I went to the park

Which of these does not have a fronted adverbial?

1. Dad shouted angily
2. Carefully, she crept out the door.
3. Quietly dad snored

Rewrite the sentence using a fronted adverbial:
The dog walked home quickly.

What does a preposition tell us?

1. What happened
2. How something happened
3. When or where something happened?

Which word is a preposition?
He looked inside and found them hiding.

1. Look
2. Inside
3. Hiding

Which word is the preposition?
He id under the bed

1. He
2. hid
3. under

Which word is the preposition?
They were building outside,

1. outside
2. building
3. were

Which word is not a preposition?

1. off
2. around
3. the

Assignment

Write 5 sentences using:

verb, proper noun, pronoun, fronted adverb, prepositional phrase

example:

1 Carefully, Tomas walked over the ice in fear of falling like he did last time.

Headline

Introduction

Subheading

Body paragraph(s)

Conclusion

The question

In pairs

For 3 minutes each question (for the article writing part)

Discuss all possible ideas - even ones you might disagree with

This is your chance to really think about the possibilities you can write about.

Only opinion - not fact based!

Your own plan

Write down how you'd like to answer the questions

Decide on how to introduce (remember to tell us what you will write about)

What body paragraphs will you have (linked to introduction)

Conclusion paragraph (sum up what you have written about - no new information here).

Writing an article

The introduction - LIGHT UP MY BRAIN!

Ideas

First sentence - light up your readers brain or they switch off

Keep it short and:

Ask a question or

Tell a story or

Tell them a shocking fact or

Tell them a very short anecdote

Tell the reader to imagine...

Examples

Imagine if you will. After a long day at school, and a long evening ahead of you that in the touch of a button help is at hand. I want to tell you about how learning to plan changed my life, how it gave me more time for fun and ow my grades are increasing with minimum effort. Sounds too good to be true right? Well read on for the best life hacks!

This article is all about how to plan your life. I will discuss how it may give you more time, how you may get to see your friends more and how important planning is. Teenagers are not good at planning. Here is how you should learn to plan to be better at it.

Your turn

Write an introduction paragraph for the Checkpoint article

Remember to include a headline

The introduction should also 'introduce' what you will write about in the article

Now write!

Finish writing your article for the next lesson

Length? Around 500 words - 1.5 sides of a4

You will get feedback on this!

Homework

Read the article layout document in teams

You will need to know this for the next lesson!