Climbing Mount Everest

CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST

Blok 1

Week 1.1 introduction week

week 1.2 first week of classes--- introduction to REN

week 1.3 school camp-----no classes all week

week 1.4 reading and listening

week 1.5 reading and listening

week 1.6 reading and listening

week 1.7 reading and listening

Fall break

FTW 1

What are we going to do today?

• Looking back on last lesson
• Practice reading & listening skills
• We're going to watch a video and answer questions.
• We're going to read a short text and answer questions.
• But first: Taalblokken

Introduction

• What do you think about people climbing Mount Everest?
• Do you think it is dangerous?
• Why? 

1. Pre-watching exercise

1. To reach the top of a mountain - summiting

2. People filling a space completely so there’s almost no room for movement. - crowding

3. A climber of high mountains - alpinist

4. A local mountain guide or porter - sherpa 

5. full of the possibility of danger - risky

2. Video Exercise climbing mount Everest

1. It’s been 60 years since the first American summited Mount Everest - false

2. Emily says she keeps coming back to mount Everest because the energy is unlike anything else. - true

3. Emily knew that the crowding on mount Everest would be dangerous. - false

4. According to Hillaree it is strange walking past the bodies on Mount Everest. - true

5. Emily is happy with having climbed Mount Everest despite the downsides of it. - false

3. Pre reading

1. getting ready for something - preparation 

2. an organisation that helps people in need - charity

3. a small river -  a stream 

4. necessary or needed - essential 

5. something that is difficult but stimulating to do - a challenge

6. to save someone from danger -  to rescue someone

7. unable to see - blind

8. the very top of a mountain - the peak

Amazing adventurers

• Read the text and complete the exercises.
• We are going to check it afterwards.

4. Check your understanding: multiple choice

1. Modern explorers use compasses and satellite phones and GPS 

2. Ed often didn’t have enough food 

3. Erik takes groups of blind people up mountains .

4.  Ed used technology to contact local people.

5. Gerlinde supports a charity that helps children .

6. Gerlinde  hasn’t done a long-distance bike ride.

7. Ed  had to look out for wild animals.

8. Gerlinde had to go slowly because there wasn’t much oxygen.

5. Check your understanding

1. The oldest person to climb Everest is eighty years old.

2. Ed Stafford’s journey took twenty-eight months.

3. Erik Weihenmayer has been blind since he was thirteen.

4. Meagan McGrath took forty days to ski to the South Pole.

5. There are fourteen mountains with a height overeight thousand  metres.

6. More than four thousand climbers have climbed Everest.

Discussion

1. Do you have experience climbing and do you like it? Why or why not?

2. Would you ever climb mount Everest? Why or why not?

3. What are three positive things about climbing Mount Everest?

4. What are three negative things about climbing Mount Everest?

Homework - Taalblokken

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- Voeg je toe aan jouw klas: 14C is 429806 en 14D is 519665

- For next lesson: 25-09

- Unit 1 A2: Around the world

- 1.1 warming up