Monday the 8th of March 6V

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

About International Women's Day

International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women's achievements or rally for women's equality. 

Marked annually on March 8th, International Women's Day (IWD) is one of the most important days of the year to:

  

• celebrate women's achievements
  
• raise awareness about women's equality
  
• lobby for accelerated gender parity
  
• fundraise for female-focused charities

What's the theme for International Women's Day?

The campaign theme for International Women's Day 2021 is 'Choose To Challenge'. A challenged world is an alert world. And from challenge comes change. So let's all #ChooseToChallenge.

For more information visit: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/about 

Answers reading comprehension open questions:

Texting shorthand annoys purists, but it has its charm.

30. (David) Crystal

31. (the) realignment (of spelling) with sound

32. Drie van de volgende antwoorden (max. score 2pnt):

       - The Scottish Qualifications Authority

       - education officials in New Zealand

       - Denis Pyatt

       - The British Council

33. In / Skoolz (alinea 6)

Last night on television

11. een antwoord met de volgende strekking:

      - De honden jaagden op nertsen / roken daar wild/dieren

      - De honden sprongen naar beneden/ van de brug op zoek nertsen /

         dieren / wild (die/dat ze roken)

12. een antwoord met de volgende strekking: (2 pnts)

      - er waren geen kwade geesten bij de brug

      - honden plegen geen zelfmoord

13. één van de volgende: - Unfortunately, it (al. 3) - Long before (al. 4)

Jump into summer

2. zonneschijn / mooi weer

3. D

The digital wallet

35. een antwoord met de volgende strekking:

        het identificeren van mensen op grond van de aders (in hun hand)
        of  het scannen van de hand

36. max. score 2

       1. niet       2. wel      3. niet

37. nee

38. A

Come, Japanese

On reading exams there are (nearly) always texts which come from a novel. This is an example of one of these.  

Tip: always read these texts before you go to the 'wel/niet' questions. 

Now read paragraph 1

Write down:

1. What information you get from the text

2. words you don't know and which you have to know to understand the text. 

De volgende tekst is het begin van de roman The Buddha in the Attic geschreven door Julie Otsuka (2011)

                                                            COME, JAPANESE

ON THE BOAT we were mostly virgins. We had long black hair and flat wide feet and we were not very tall. Some of us had eaten nothing but rice gruel as young girls and had slightly bowed legs, and some of us were only fourteen years old and were still young girls ourselves. Some of us came from the city, and wore stylish city clothes, but many more of us came from the country and on the boat we wore the same old kimonos we'd been wearing for years ─ faded hand-me-downs from our sisters that had been patched and redyed many times. Some of us came from the mountains and had never before seen the sea, except for in pictures, and some of us were daughters of fishermen who had been around the sea all our lives. Perhaps we had lost a brother or father to the sea, or a fiancé, or perhaps someone we loved had jumped into the water one unhappy morning and simply swum away; and now it was time for us, too, to move on.

Write down what information you got from paragraph 1

Paragraphs 2 and 3

Read paragraph 2  and write down:

- what information you got from this

- what do you think the girls are going to do?

- any words you had to look up so that you were able to understand the text. 

ON THE BOAT the first thing we did ─ before deciding who we liked and didn't

like, before telling each other which one of the islands we were from, and why we were leaving, before even bothering to learn each other's names ─ was compare photographs of our husbands. They were handsome young men with dark eyes and full heads of hair and skin that was smooth and unblemished. Their chins were strong. Their posture, good. Their noses were straight and high. They looked like our brothers and fathers back home, only better dressed, in gray frock coats and fine Western three-piece suits. Some of them were standing on sidewalks in front of wooden A-frame houses with white picket fences and neatly mowed lawns, and some were leaning in driveways against Model T Fords. Some were sitting in studios on stiff high-backed chairs with their hands neatly folded and staring straight into the camera, as though they were ready to take on the world. All of them had promised to be there, waiting for us, in San Francisco, when we sailed into port.

ON THE BOAT, we often wondered: Would we like them? Would we love them?

Would we recognize them from their pictures when we first saw them on the dock?

The questions

In the following slides you will answer the exam questions

Ze kennen elkaar al sinds hun vroegste kinderjaren

1. wel
2. niet

Ze vluchten omdat ze thuis slecht behandeld werden.

1. wel
2. niet

Ze zijn op weg om een nieuw leven te beginnen.

1. wel
2. niet

Ze gaan herenigd worden met hun jeugdliefdes.

1. wel
2. niet

Uit welke zin uit de tekst zou je kunnen concluderen dat de mannen op de foto's oorspronkelijk uit Japan komen?

Which of the following best describes the mood among the girls?

1. bored indifference
2. excited anticipation
3. joyful confidence
4. shameful desperation

The remaining time you:

• work on discussion
• read / finish novel
• work on essay
• work on WiP