Week 49: Passive recap, speaking & phonetics

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3,4

Today: 

Word of the week

Recap on the passive tense

Speaking

Phonetics 

I am looking for a feeling 

Try to think of as many words as you can to describe the emotions below 

Distraught 

Extremely worried, nervous, or upset:

 

The missing child's distraught parents made an emotional appeal for information on TV.

Make a sentence with the word:
distraught

What do you remember
about the passive?

Active

The subject performs an action 

My boyfriend plays the guitar 

Passive 

The subject is receiving/undergoing an action

The guitar is being played by my boyfriend

Passive voice

Quite popular in news episodes 

In the passive voice it is not that important WHO did the action, the action/the result is most important 

Phonetics 

To write the way you 

pronounce 

What is phonetics? 

When and why? 

Linguistic focused studies 

Finding out the way a word is produced 

May look something like 

Have a go: 

Cat

Busy

Classmate

Tuesday

Usually

Friendly

Birthday

Done? Try these

Activity 

Athletic

Dangerous 

Awkward

Musical

Cereal

Crunchy

/ kæt / 

/ klɑːsmeɪt /

/ ʧuːzdeɪ /

/ juːʒʊəli /

/ frɛndli /

/ bɜːθdeɪ/ 

/ ækˈtɪvɪti /

/ æθˈlɛtɪk /

/ deɪnʤrəs /

/ ɔːkwəd /

/ mjuːzɪkəl /

/ sɪərɪəl /

/ krʌnʧi /

Speaking practice 

Small debates with signal words / useful phrases 

How to upgrade your speaking

Signal words

Fancy phrases 

Synonyms 

Signal words 

Therefore	Unlike	Nevertheless
Usually	Alternatively	In particular
Whereas	Above all	Undoubtedly
Additionally	Significantly	Despite this
Evidently	Besides	Decidedly

Fancy phrases 

On the contrary..

In addition to..

Without a doubt..

As a result of...

As an example

In my humble opinion

As revealed by..

In my point of view.. 

If I am not mistaken.. 

On the other hand..

in conclusion..

First and foremost..

Last but not least..

 

Pair up for a debate 

You will prepare a debate on one of the following statements: 

• Animals shouldn't be used for medical research
• Torture can be considered depending on certain circumstances
• Marriage is outdated
• Gender Neutral Bathrooms should be built in all schools
• Climate change is a fact