Lesson 2: Product description

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Lesson 2: Product description

Lesson goals

At the end of this lesson students will be able to:

• Students will learn how to identify descriptive texts
• Students will how use reading strategies to identify relevant information
• Students will learn how to use pronouns
• Student will learn the difference between a noun and pronoun
• Students will learn how to use a grapic organizer

About last week..

1. Check our homework
2. Practice present simple 

Exercise 1 (reader)

1. My parents often watch westerns. 

2. They are hungry. 

3. Mum washes all the dirty clothes. 

4. Peter has got a brother. 

5. Dad buys a new plasma TV. 

6. The boys play football. 

7. In summer it is hot. 

8. I am good at school. 

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Exercise 1 (reader)

1. They wash the car. They don't wash the car.

2. I get up early. I don't get up early.

3. They walk to school. They don't walk to school.

4. Jim eats an orange. Jim doesn't eat an orange.

5. My sister listens to her new CD. My sister doesn't listen to her new CD.

6. Ann cleans her shoes. Ann doesn't clean her shoes.

Present simple
He ..... (to call)

1. call
2. calls

The present simple is...

1. now.
2. a fact.
3. a routine.
4. all of the above.

Find the present simple

1. She danced the night away
2. He loves his girlfriend very much
3. We are not doing this now.
4. I have helped out a lot.

Find the present simple

1. He's cooking dinner.
2. The teacher is lying.
3. He is going to make taco's on tuesday
4. I brush my teeth at 8AM, every morning.

Present simple:

1. I am walking to school.
2. They walked to school.
3. We have walked to school.
4. He walks to school.

Present simple:

Rule Example

 Je gebruikt de tegenwoordige tijd (present simple)

als je het over het volgende hebt:

• feiten Water boils at 100 degrees.

• gewoontes I usually get up at 6.30.

• toekomst als je een rooster/tijdschema/programma hebt ;The train leaves at 7.30.

• levendig beschrijving/dramatisch effect;

In 1099 William conquers England

Altijd hele werkwoord behalve SHIT: +S

I walk -> He walks

Descriptive text

Today we're going to learn a bit more about the descriptive text

in the following video you're going to learn what the descriptive text tells us!

Reading: PD-100 Black Hornet

Complete exercise 1 and 2: Read the text "PD-100 Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Air Vehicle"

A) You will all receive a descriptive graphic organizer and fill in the descriptive detail of the PD- 100 Black hornet.

B) You can work in pairs and use the reading strategies we’ve discussed in class to find the detailed information you need to fill in the descriptive graphic organizer!

 

Reading: PD-100 Black Hornet

1. Which company developed the PD-100 Black Hornet?

2. What kind of composite material is the PD-100 Black Hornet made of?

3. How many meters in the operators line-of-sight can they control the UAV?

4. The Black Hornet autopilot provides the operator with two modes of operation. Name these two functions and explain what it does.

5. Describe the feature of the Black Hornet based on the text. Find the description that provides an image of the Black Hornet.

Take off - Lesson 2: Product description

Reading: 

Take-off Course book (CB) on p. 4-5

A) What are the main stages of the design of a new product, from the first idea to the final finished product?

B) Look at the text on p.4 and make a list of the main stages.

C) Compare your list with a partner. Did you come up with the same stages? (Pair activity)

D) In the passage (text) you just read, 10 key words are shown in bold. Match each word to one of the definitions below. 

Take off - Lesson 2: Product description

Language: 

Take-off Course book (CB) on p. 5

A) Look at Language Box 2. Circle all the pronouns it, they, this, these in the text in the Reading passage opposite on p. 4

B) What do these pronouns refer to in the text in the reading passage on p.4? 

C) Look at these examples of product descriptions from Lesson 1 and correct the mistakes in the use of pronouns.  

Types of pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Vocabulary exercise

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