animal adolescence

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Monday 27th January

* introduction clip

* read text & answer the questions

* vocabulary check

adolescence

Choose wisely

level 1

level 2

level 3

Before reading...

* What does the title mean?

* Where was this text published? And originally?

* Is it an American or British text? Try to find evidence in the text

* What is the purpose of the text? 

While reading...

deliberately 

beneficial

prompt

exaggeration

fundamental

Level 1:

1. C

2. D

3.B

4. D

Level 2: 

1. D

2. B

3. C

4. B

Level 3:

1. C

2. C

3. A

4. D

Which word goes with "with intent"?

1. deliberately
2. beneficial

Which sentence is an example of the word "deliberately"?

1. Charlotte accidentally knocked over a glass salt shaker when she was eating dinner at the kitchen table last night.
2. Charlotte put a salt shaker near the edge of the table knowing her brother would knock it over when he walked by it.

Which sentence is an example of the word "beneficial"?

1. A thick winter coat is valuable to people who live in Minnesota.
2. Aileen lived in Minnesota for five years when she was a little girl.

Which word goes with "useful"?

1. beneficial
2. deliberately

Which word goes with "trigger"?

1. prompt
2. fundamental

Which sentence is an example of the word "prompt"?

1. Megan smiled because she heard her favorite song on the radio.
2. Megan listened to the radio in her car on the way to the grocery store.

Which word goes with "basic"?

1. prompt
2. fundamental

Which sentence is an example of the word fundamental"?

1. Travis got a B+ on his essay on Harriet Tubman in his history class.
2. To write an essay, you first need to write sentences and paragraphs.

Which word goes with "too dramatic"?

1. fundamental
2. exaggeration

Which sentence is an example of the word exaggeration"?

1. Jeff liked to claim he was the fastest runner in the world, but that was hardly true.
2. Jeff was excited when he won the 100-yard dash at his school's track meet today.

Homework

write a paragraph on something that you think is typical for adolescents. You have to use at least two of the words we discussed today.  

+/- 125 words