Reading Comprehension 2019-II Havo

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4,5

Reading Comprehension Havo

2019-II

Vocabulary

Goats' best friends:

https://wordwall.net/play/61036/600/504

Goats' best friends

1. Read the question


What information does the question give you?

Goats' best friends

2. Read the title

What does the title tell you?
Do you know anything about that topic?

Goats' best friends

3. Look at the pictures

What does the picture tell you in addition to the text?
Does it give further information?

Goats' best friends

4. Read the subheadings any bold/italic/capital words

What are you thinking about when you read the headings and subheadings and bolded words? 

What information do they give you?

Goats' best friends

5. Read the text and underline any signal words

 What relationship do they highlight? 

A contrast, example, similarity etc?

Goats' best friends

6. When you encounter a word you don’t know,
split up the word in two

What part of this word do I already know?

Goats' best friends

Now answer question 1.

1. What is the goal of paragraph 2?

1. to add a new argument for the theory introduced in paragraph 1
2. to challenge the theory introduced in paragraph 1
3. to support the theory introduced in paragraph 1

Vocabulary

Our rotten summer:

https://wordwall.net/play/61038/165/386

“Dame Julia Slingo has defended its failure to foresee this summer’s
‘pretty disappointing’ weather” (alinea 1)
1p 2. Leg uit wat de kern is van haar verdediging voor deze fout.
Geef antwoord in het Nederlands.

1p 3. Wordt er iets gezegd in deze tekst wat zonliefhebbers op
korte termijn blij zou maken?
Zo nee, antwoord “Nee”. Zo ja, citeer de eerste twee woorden van de zin
waarin dit gebeurt.

Vocabulary

Cat-astrophy

https://wordwall.net/play/61044/320/803

https://wordwall.net/play/61045/379/224

“Cat-astrophe!” (title)
1p 4. What makes feral cats particularly harmful for Australia, according to the text?
They are harmful because local species

1. are less adept at surviving near big cities than the cats are.
2. have not developed any defense mechanisms against the cats.
3. succumb to the diseases the cats have brought to the island.
4. suffer because the cats tend to deplete their sources of nutrition.

1p 5. What is the purpose of the study by Sarah Legge (paragraph 3)?

1. to add more wild cats to those areas the cats now tend to avoid
2. to find out where the need to keep wild cats in check is most pressing
3. to monitor the behaviour of wild cats when they encounter people
4. to promote certain measures for permanently removing wild cats

1p 6. Wordt in de tekst duidelijk welke maatregelen ingezet zullen worden bij de bestrijding van katten?
Zo nee, antwoord “Nee”. Zo ja, citeer de eerste twee woorden van de zin
waarin dit gebeurt.