HV week 19

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2,3

Get out your books

Turn on your camera

Keep your microphone muted, unless you have a question

During this lesson

- reading assignment

- reading practice

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories—they're dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure.

Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets.

Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie and Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting and enticing with her stories and delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home, but then, in trying to heal the rift between Mr Evans and his estranged sister, and save Druid's Bottom, Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come.

'It's like parachuting. Get the first jump over and it becomes routine, but you mustn't get complacent. Check your parachute every time.'

Homeless on the streets of London, 16 year old Link feels he has become an invisible outcast. When he meets streetwise Ginger, life becomes more bearable and he learns the tricks of survival. But when Ginger goes missing, Link feels a sickening sense of foreboding...

1 Wat maakt deze expeditie naar Mars een onaantrekkelijke onderneming,
volgens de schrijver?

2 ‘Contamination incident’
Welke gebeurtenis heeft er precies plaatsgevonden?
Geef antwoord in het Nederlands.

3 ‘Learning Greek to Improve your English’ (titel)
In welke zin wordt uitgelegd waarom dit werkt?
Citeer (= schrijf over uit de tekst) de eerste twee woorden van deze zin.

4 De volgende drie alinea’s van tekst 4 staan hieronder, maar niet in de juiste volgorde.
Schrijf de letters in de juiste volgorde op

5 Geef van elk van de volgende beweringen aan of deze juist of onjuist is volgens de tekst. 

1 De British Film Industry heeft nieuwe films van Hitchcock ontdekt in
Hertfordshire.

1. juist
2. onjuist

2 De British Film Industry voorziet de oude Hitchcock films van geluid.

1. juist
2. onjuist

3 Stomme films werden vroeger zelden bewaard.

1. juist
2. onjuist

4 Films zonder geluid werden gemaakt van kostbaar materiaal.

1. juist
2. onjuist

6 Kies bij __6__ in de tekst het juiste antwoord uit de gegeven mogelijkheden.

1. as a result
2. in the meantime
3. nevertheless
4. on top of that