Week 44

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

English

To Do:

• Planning Term 1 & 2
• Recap chapter 1
• Check answers reading chapter 1
• Aims
• Reading Chapter 2

Planning

Term 1:  Reading Test ( Week 49)

                Writing Assignment ( Week 45)

                 

Term 2: Presentation ( Week 48-Week 5)

                Listening Test ( Week 3)

Recap

Purposes of a text:

inform, instruct, persuade, entertain

Reading strategies:

- Scanning: specific information

- Skimming: topic and main points

- Intensive Reading: complete understanding

Chapter 1 - Answers

Text 1 - Exercise 1:  To inform you

Text 2 - Exercise 1:  To persuade you

Text 3:  Exercise 1: persuasive

                Exercise 2: Nothing will happen, it's not a real threat.

                Exercise 3: ...

                Exercise 4: 21

Chapter 1 - Answers

Text 4 - Exercise 1: informative and instructive

                Exercise 2: a microchip, a specific vaccination, 

                                        a pet passport, tapeworm treatment

                Exercise 3: Your pet must be transported by approved

                                        transport companies.

                Exercise 4: Guide dogs and other assistance dogs.

                Exercise 5: It can enter the UK without any restrictions.

Chapter 1 - Answers

Text 5 - Exercise 1: to persuade you

                Exercise 2: Music by Pink, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga will

                                        be aired on MTV Music.

                Exercise 3: tough

Text 6-  Exercise 1: own answer

                Exercise 2: informative and persuasive

                Exercise 3: identity hijacking

Chapter 1 - Answers

Text 6- Exercise 4: They want to make money by selling account

                                        details.

               Exercise 5: a network of hacked computers.

               Exercise 6: They steal money from you

                                       They use your account

                                       They sell your account details

               Exercise 7: The article doesn't say; you need to subscribe

Chapter 1- Answers

Text 7 - Exercise 1: icemantaz

Text 8 - Exercise 1:  15.00 including VAT

 Text 9 - Exercise 1: see the difference between

                  Exercise 2: very boring people

                  Exercise 3: to examine something

                  Exercise 4: to make it smaller

                  Exercise 5: to get you to do something

                  Exercise 6: an obstacle to concentration

                  Exercise 7: bad

Aims

After this week's lesson you should be able to:

• identify the topic of a text
• determine the main idea of a text.
• explain the difference between the main idea of a text and the author's purpose.

Previewing a text

- subject

- pictures

- main title

- subheadings

- authors

What's the idea?

Topic: what the text is about.

Main idea:  the point the author is trying to make about the topic.

Topic sentence: sentence that clearly states the main idea. Usually the first or last sentence of a text/paragraph.

Reading 

What: Text 1 - Text 11

How: Individually

Finished: Writing assignment: Read The Flypaper. Write down at least 10 words that are unfamiliar to you. Try to guess the meaning first, then look up the meaning using an online dictionary.

Write a short story in which you incorporate the 10 words you've written down. Use between 200-250 words.

Hand in the list of words and your short story. You will be graded on your writing.