Reading aged friends

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 3

Reading Practice

Planning fot today:

• Reading practise comprehension
• Practise your oral skills
  

How?

• When it's your turn, turn on your mic and start reading the         paragraph(s) that's on the LessonUp screen.
• Pay attention, as we're going to switch turns while reading.
• After each part, we're going to summarize and fill in the blanks. 

• But... before reading, take a look at the heading, subheadings and picture. You can click on the text to enlarge.
  

You can click on the text to enlarge.

What's the text about, do you think? You may answer in Dutch.

Read paragraph 1 + 2

the three _______ from the north of England...

As citizens around the world are told to stay _______ to halt the spread of coronavirus, 

Three lifelong _______ aged over 70 plan to move in with each other.

friends

inside

women

Read paragraph 3 + 4

On Sunday the British _______ announced  

that....

every Briton aged over 70 will be told to stay at home for an extended period of time to avoid catching the _______.

We'll have a week in our own____________

government

virus

house

Read paragraph 5 - 8

Having been friends for so many years, they felt it would be _______ to not be there for each other...

"The cafes are closing, the theatres - we should have been at the theatre on Friday. What's going to happen to these _______?"

all their properties have a similar numver of.........

"We've seen each other through divorces and loss - we go on _______ together..."

 "Dotty's got a lovely long back _______ which would be great for exercising."

rooms

garden

weird

holiday

people

Read paragraph 9 + 10

the new measure was "a very big ask of the elderly and vulnerable", but said 'it is for their own ______".

the World Health  Organisation (WHO) self-isolation is currently the most effective way to stop it _______.

spreading

protection

Open Questions

• Anwer the questions. Find the anwers in the text.  
  

• Use the text. You can enlarge the picture in the LessonUp slide. 

1. Wat gaan Doreen,
Dotty en Carol doen?

2. Wat maakte de Britse regering op zondag bekend?

3. In welk huis zijn de dames de afgelopen week gebleven?

4. Wat zijn de “unique selling points” van de huizen van Dotty en Doreen?

5. Waarom hebben de dames besloten om samen te gaan isoleren?

6. Wie worden volgens de WHO het hardste getroffen door het Corona-virus?

7. Hoe lang kennen de dames elkaar al?

Match the words.

verlengd

levering van wijn

kwetsbaar

vastbesloten

huizen

op elkaar letten

adamant

extended

properties

suplpy of wine

look after each other

vulnerable

We're done!

Thanks again and we meet again online next week. 

Enjoy your day!

Text provided by 

Tom Offermans.