Week 4 Grammar + Listening

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Start with this

- How many hours of Netflix do you watch?

- What do you think makes Netflix such a success?

Today's objectives

You can:

- apply adjectives and adverbs;

- take notes while listening.

Digital hour

Practise in English Essentials (Holmwoods).

Do the Level Assessment Test (Start hier).

Then, do 1 listening and 1 reading exercise sufficiently.

adjectives + adverbs

What do you remember?

exercises 43 A + B

page 136-138

Turn to page 35 in your book.

Read through the questions.

page 35-36

Homework

• Go through Finish Up chapters 8-10.
• Make a list of the words of which you don't understand the meaning yet and bring it to class.
• Bring your laptop!

Which sentence is correct?

Do you use an adjective or adverb?

1. Dinner smells so good.

2. Dinner smells so well.

adjective or adverb?

Dinner smells so good.

You use adjectives instead of adverbs for linking verbs:

- sense verbs (feel, seem, look, appear, smell, taste, sound)

Check homework (43B, page 138)

1 Carefully is an adverb because it says something about a verb

2 New is an adjective because it says something about a noun.

   Extremely is an adverb because it says something about an adverb.

   Quickly is an adverb because it says something about a verb.

3 New is an adjective because it says something about a noun.

   Wrongly is an adverb because it says something about a verb.

4 Incredibly is an adverb because it says something about an adjective.

   Beautiful is an adjective because it is linked to a linking verb.

 5 Most is an adverb because it says something about an adjective.

    Popular is an adjective because it says something about a noun.

Today's objectives

We are going to:

- practise the various ways to express the future.

- review the past tenses, adjectives and adverbs.

Future
When do we use the present simple?

Future
When do we use the present continuous?

Future
When do we use to be going to? (2 reasons)

Future
When do we use will? (4 reasons)

Future
When do we use shall instead of will?

Work in pairs. 

Take turns completing the following sentences. 

Use the four different forms of the future:

- present simple

- present continuous

- to be (am, are, is) + going to

- will

1 Over the weekend I …

2 In the next holiday I …

3 In the Summer Holidays I …

4 Next school year I …

5 On my birthday I …

6 In five years’ time I …

7 In ten years’ time I …

Some key information

• studiewijzer: Magister Me
• weekly digital hour: Holmwoods
• grammar practice: Stepping Stones Online

Stepping Stone Online

Go to planner for today: 30 September

Do the exercises that support your needs (Easy, Standard, Difficult).

I still have questions about:

- present tense (simple, perfect, continuous)

- past tense (simple, perfect, continuous)

- future

- adjectives and adverbs

- pronouns (reflexive, reciprocal, indefinite)

- nouns and articles

Homework

Draw the most beautiful thing you have ever seen (or find a picture of it) and bring it to tomorrow's class.

Also, bring Stepping Stones Text/Workbook B + Finish Up.

Start with this

Finish sentences using present continuous or

to be going to.

- Tonight, I …

- On my birthday, I …

Today's objectives

You are able to:

• apply comparisons and quantifiers.
• translate words that have to with Education.

Grammar groups

1. Form groups of four.
2. Read the theory on page 40 (Theme 4, H)
3. Do exercise 42 A + B + C (page 39, 40) together.

42A Key

 1 than

 2 most precious

 3 uncountable

 4 countable nouns

 5 a lot of

42B Example Key

1 more beautiful, more dilapidated, more important, more modern, more remarkable, taller, uglier

 2 most beautiful, most exceptional, best, most important, most mellow, most remarkable, most sincere, ugliest

 3 most beautiful, most dilapidated, most exceptional, best, most important, most modern, most remarkable, tallest, ugliest

 4 attractive, beautiful, exceptional, mellow

 5 better, more remarkable

42C Key

Speaking

Describe your picture with:

-three quantifiers

- two comparisons

- two superlatives

Speaking

Describe your picture to your group.

Convince each other why your item is so much prettier.

Appoint a winner.

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Homework

Study Finish Up 8-10 Education.