Periode 1 - Week 5

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

Building Blocks A2 - Unit 1 

• Learning Goals
• 1.2 Reading
• Vocabulary 

Learning Goals Unit 1

At the end of Unit 1 you should be able to:

• recognise different sorts of texts.
  
• read and listen to texts with a certain goal in mind.
  
• apply reading and listening strategies.

Recap last week

• All sorts of texts
• Text purposes
• Building Blocks B1 - 1.2 Reading exercise 1-17
• Vocabulary 

Reading strategies

• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive Reading

Reading Strategy: Scanning

If you need to find specific information, like numbers, names or dates, you can scan a text.

1. Read the question.

2. Select  key words from the question.

3. Scan the text, look for the key words in the text.

4. Read the text surrounding the key words carefully.

5. Answer the question.

True or False?

"The first thing you need to do when you arrive at the Oasis Health Food Café is choose a table."

Reading Strategy: Scanning

True or False?

"The first thing you need to do when you arrive at the Oasis Health Food Café is choose a table."

Oasis Health Food Café

No table service. Please choose a table

number before ordering your food at

the bar. You need to pay when you order.

Vocabulary Strategies

When you don’t know what a word means, ask yourself these questions:

1. Is it an important word?

First, ask yourself if you need to know what the word means. Can you understand the text without knowing the meaning of this specific word?

Yes. If you don’t really need to know this word, just continue reading or listening. You don’t have to understand every single word of the text to understand it.

No. Is the word important? Then ask yourself the next question:

2. Which strategy do I choose?

You can do several things to find out what a word means. For example: you can use the context, use your knowledge of other words, use images and videos, or look it up in a dictionary.

Write down the English translation:
toestaan

Write down the English translation:
aankomen

Write down the English translation:
beschikbaar

Write down the English translation:
tussen

Write down the English translation:
druk

Write down the English translation:
hoofdstad

Write down the English translation:
collega

Write down the English translation:
combineren met

Write down the English translation:
werkgever

Write down the English translation:
klant

Building Blocks A2-Unit 1

1.2 Reading: exercise 18-35