2021 H5B Convincing Statements

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Convincing Statements 

04 February

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Convincing Statements 

04 February

1. discuss testing
   
2. explain how to introduce statements convincingly English
   
3. practice with a statement
   
4. explore our four topic options and collect info for tomorrow's class
   

Exams from the Exam Week

What reflects your experience of the difficulty
of the CITO test best? (Think ahead: why.)

😒🙁😐🙂😃

Why? 

•  What shaped your experience? 
• What kind of approach did you use? 

Upcoming Exams & Tests

Book	2		Test (3 av.)
Vocab	2	Week of 15 February	Test (OVG)
Speaking	1	Exam Week	Exam (7)
Reading	1	Final Exams	Exam (30)

Vocab 2

Vocab Test 2 was originally scheduled in the weeks before the exam weeks. A new moment will be scheduled by the school at the start of the week of 15 February. This will be an online test about 7 t/m 13 (see Quizlet). https://quizlet.com/_5vm1jk?x=1jqt&i=ssiof

From H5 Speaking Exam:

What do you do to save the planet?
Sometimes I pee under the shower.

1. True
2. False

From H5 Speaking Exam:

Do you need help?
O no, hoor.

1. True
2. False

From H5 Speaking Exam:

What do want to do after graduation?
I want to work as a cock.

1. True
2. False

From H5 Speaking Exam:

What does your father do for a living?
My father fucks cows.

1. True
2. False

From H5 Speaking Exam:

What about your next challenge?
Well, that is another cook.

1. True
2. False

What causes Louis's mistakes?

Speaking Exam

• a monologue and an informed discussion
• based 3 articles from respectable newspapers 
  
• opinions, arguments, descriptions
• best advice ever: go for op-eds

What determines the quality of a monologue? 

Articles are different perspectives on one theme

Articles are from a tabloid

The topic is football matches or game reviews

Student starts with anecdote, question, example, object

Student starts with description of the topic before explaining different opinions

Articles are long reads

Speaks for a very long time

Europe can only fix its relationship with Africa if it exorcises its colonial ghosts

Excavating this dark history via revised school curriculums and initiatives such as Black History Month is difficult. But it is badly needed, and not just to dispel the self-congratulatory and entirely false narratives about Europe’s “civilisational” past still being driven by nationalist and populist politicians.

History suggests we may forget the pandemic sooner than we think

Crucially, a pandemic lacks the essential ingredients of a story: clear heroes and villains with intent and motive. The Covid enemy is, despite our best efforts to anthropomorphise it, an invisible and faceless virus. That matters because commemoration is necessarily a moral exercise. Think of the way we marked Holocaust Memorial Day this week, lighting candles and telling the stories of those who survived or resisted the Nazi menace. We cast the past as a moral test, judging who passed and who failed. Wars can be remembered proudly by those who won, and even by those who lost: witness the Confederate statues put up in the early 20th century to honour what white racist southerners believed was a noble cause. 

What a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a bikini tells us about the disturbing future of AI

When you fed the same algorithm a similarly cropped photo of a woman, it auto-completed her wearing a low-cut top or bikini a massive 53% of the time. For some reason, the researchers gave the algorithm a picture of the Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and found that it also automatically generated an image of her in a bikini. (After ethical concerns were raised on Twitter, the researchers had the computer-generated image of AOC in a swimsuit removed from the research paper.)

Alexei Navalny has been jailed. But he'll still be spooking Vladimir Putin

This is hardly a national uprising, but such widespread defiance of Putin is significant. The Kremlin, spooked by last year’s pro-democracy eruption in Belarus, isn’t taking chances. Riot police have dispersed crowds with gratuitous force. Thousands have been arrested. But what alarms Putin most are protests in the regions, including Siberian towns where January frosts would usually prevent people gathering outdoors. Navalny’s popularity was thought to be confined to the more urbane dissidents in Moscow and St Petersburg.

Breakout Rooms Exercise

Introduce a topic and an opinion about it based on one of these four titles: 

1. Europe can only fix its relationship with Africa if it exorcises its colonial ghosts
   
2. History suggests we may forget the pandemic sooner than we think
   
3. What a picture of Ocasio-Cortez in a bikini tells us about the disturbing future of AI
   
4. Alexei Navalny has been jailed. But he'll still be spooking Vladimir Putin
   

Do not consult the articles.

PAY ATTENTION TO LANGUAGE. Consider audience - purpose - tone: 

• A: our class
  
• P: convince us that your topic and opinion are relevant and worth discussing
  
• T: formal 
  

What of the style (APT): What was effective and why?

What convincing language have you heard?

What of the style (APT): What was effective and why?

What convincing language have you heard?

Convincing Statements 

LANGUAGE

• linking words: but vs however; yet vs nevertheless, that's why vs consequently 
  
• argumentative language: as a result, therefore, in my opinion, because, since, subsequently, consequently, that's why, however, moreover, although..., he states, the author proposes, on the one hand - on the other hand
  
• descriptive language: a bad example vs a terribly unfit example
  

Follow-up Exercise

Read two articles in full, you should be able to introduce and explain them convincingly: 

1. Europe can only fix its relationship with Africa if it exorcises its colonial ghosts
   
2. History suggests we may forget the pandemic sooner than we think
   
3. What a picture of Ocasio-Cortez in a bikini tells us about the disturbing future of AI
   
4. Alexei Navalny has been jailed. But he'll still be spooking Vladimir Putin
   

Select at least two quotes per article that you can use. 

Make sure you understand the full text: summarise it in your own English words (at least 150w.) 

Brainstorm about a theme for your speaking assignment. 

Study exam vocabulary 2. 

You can introduce a statement convincingly.

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What was the best part of this lesson? What question would you still like to ask?
(Say bye when you go.)