Voorbereiding + oefenen Short Stories 5H

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Reading

2nd form

Practice Short Stories 5H

• The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
• Man from the South
• A Day's Wait
• The Lottery
• Desirées baby
• The Minority Report

INFO 5H Oral Exam English Le-week 1

Topic: Short stories (6x)

Duration: 10 minutes per student

PTA: SE 30%, resit is possible

Location: Nijverheidsweg 

(room on the right next to teacher's room, downstairs)

Please, be on time (5 minutes earlier) and wait until your teacher calls your name!

INFO 5H Oral Exam English Le-week 1

How to prepare for your oral exam?

• Read the 6 short stories
  
• Study the PowerPoints (SOM)
  
• Reread the stories + highlighted sentences
• Study the questions + answers from booklet
• Practice your speaking skills with each other, at home, etc.

Rubric Oral Exam

Let's practice!

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Plot: the sequence of events in a story 

Resolution

Climax

Falling action

Exposition

Rising action

The Minority Report

A Day's Wait

The Lottery

Man from the South

1933

1948

1956

1948

The invisible Japanese gentlemen

Desirée's Baby

A Day's Wait

The Lottery

Kate Chopin

Shirley Jackson

Ernest Hemingway

Graham Greene

Tessie Hutchinson is the main character in...

1. Desirée's Baby
2. The invisible Japanese gentlemen
3. The Lottery
4. A Day's wait

The theme 'powers of observation' can be found in...

1. The Minority Report
2. The Lottery
3. The Man from the South
4. The invisible Japanese gentlemen

The creator of the Precrime Unit in The Minority Report is...

1. Mr. Dwight
2. Mr. Anderton
3. Mr. Summers
4. Mr. Graves

Which of these stories have a
first-person narrator (= I-person)?

1. The invisible Japanese Gentlemen A Day's Wait Man from the South
2. The Minority Report Man from the South Desirée's Baby
3. The invisible Japanese Gentlemen The Lottery The Minority Report
4. The Lottery Man from the South A Day's Wait

What is the setting of the story 'The Lottery'? (give time and place)

What is the difference between a utopia and dystopia? (The Minority Report)

Give a short description of Armand. (Desirée's Baby)

What is the turning point in the story 'A Day's Wait'?

End of practice!

During your oral exam you should be able to talk for 5 minutes about one story + answer general and more detailed questions about other stories.

Also, you need to be able to give your opinion.

For example; What is your favorite story and why?

Can you identify with a certain character? Explain.

Comment on the writing style, use of language, etc.

Good luck 

on your English 

oral exam!!!