Listening practice year 3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 3

Hello 3HGL!

Planner for today

• New year resolutions
• Reminder testweek
• Topic for today
• Break time
• Reflection

What are your goals for 2023?

My goals for 2023:

• Giving my students a variety of topics to discuss in class.
  
  
• Teaching you all important values of how to speak better in English 
  
  
• Trying to make learning the English language a bit more fun for my students.

Topic for today

Match the events with the definitions

a party to celebrate the anniversary of someone's birth

a West Indian carnival held in London every August

a party normally organised by students to celebrate finishing the school year and completing their exams

a celebration of 50 years of marriage

the marriage of a king, queen, prince or princess

Birthday party

End of term party at school

Notting Hill Carnival

Royal wedding

Golden wedding anniversary

Time to listen

Click here!

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/b1-listening/celebrations

Match the speakers

with the celebrations

Speaker A

Speaker B

Speaker C

Speaker D

Speaker E

Surprise birthday party

End of term party at school

Golden wedding anniversary

Royal wedding

Notting Hill Carnival

How did the acitivity go?

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Speaker _______________ will see people dressed in amazing costumes.

Speaker _______________ is going to decorate the venue with Chinese lanterns and projections

on the wall.

Speaker _______________ is worried about someone on Facebook spoiling the surprise.

Speaker _______________ is going to be careful of people stealing things.

Speaker _______________ is going to listen to old-fashioned music played on an old-fashioned

machine.

Speaker _______________ is in one of the bands that are playing.

Speaker _______________ is going to taste food from all over the world

Speaker _______________ is going to celebrate with the whole family.

Speaker _______________ is organising a party for her two best friends.

Speaker _______________ is going to make sure there is no traffic on her street

A

B

C

D

E

A

B

C

D

E

How did this activity go?

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Statements of today

In your groups talk about the following items:

Do you have any celebrations planned?

What are you celebrating?

What are you going to do?

Break time!

Part 2!

00:26

Demeter was the greek goddess of:

1. Love
2. Agriculture
3. Animals
4. Parenthood

01:45

Persephone's father was....

1. Apollo
2. Hermes
3. Zeus
4. Mars

03:52

Persephone ate:

1. A melon
2. A pomegrenate
3. A pomelo
4. An apple

04:23

In the end, what portion of the year did Persephone spend in the World of the Living?

1. 1/3
2. 2/3
3. 3/4
4. 1/4

04:45

What were some of Demeter’s duties as a goddess?

05:25

What happens every time Persephone ascends (terugkeert) to the earth?

Question of the day: The myth of Persephone in the underworld is often seen as a metaphor for the changing seasons. In what way does the story explain the seasons?

I could follow the story and I understood most of the words that were discussed.

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What was the main message of the video?

How would you reimagine our world?

Write a short story of how would you reimagine our world? Use around 100 words. You can write it here!

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