Theme 4 Lesson 3 reading:Battle of the Geeks

• English
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

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Lesson Program

read a text about robots 

working  on your reading strategies while doing exercises

Robot

You are going to read a text about robots.  Write down as many words related to the word robot you can think of.

Reading

! Strategy

Exercise 22: In this exercise you will practise reading globally. 

You should only try to find out the most important information.

How???

Open your WB to exercise 22 p.94

No.1 of exercise 22

Look at the subtitles. What do you expect to read in this text? 

Tick the boxes in front of the topics.

No.2 of exercise 22 p.94

Read the entire text. Indicate if you can find the following information in the text. If so, write down the information you found in key words.

Let's talk about the answers

Answers

 which country the text is about         Richmond, Virginia

 what the robots are used for               they are used in a game (Aerial Assist)

 who use the robots                                  students

 where you can play football -

 what competition is held                       FIRST Tech Challenge

 how you can be the best -

 if it's something for girls                       it's for boys and girls

Read the whole text and finish exercise 23 on p.94

Remember to look for the most important information.

write down the key words you found

in the text to support your answers. 

Answer: 

1 B

2 A

3 A

4 A

5 B

6 B

Read the whole text now for 2 mins.

Have you got any difficult words/questions? 

What did you learn about reading today?

Homework 

Read an English article about competition

1:write a summary in 50 words and be ready to present it next lesson.

2:find 2 sentences with present perfect. 

sentence 

contex(why is present perfect use?)