Week 4

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

• Planning Term 2
• Workshop Writing
• Work on your Language Portfolio

Planning Term 2

Week 50: Work on your Portfolio + Workshop Reading

Week 51: Christmas Activity

Week 2: Work on your Portfolio + Workshop Speaking

Week 3: Work on your Portfolio + Workshop Conversations

Week 4: Work on your Portfolio + Workshop Writing

Week 5: Progress Review

Aims

After this week's lesson you have practised how to:

• use adverbs correctly in your writing.
• write a description of the plot of a book or film (B1)
  
• write a short review of a book or film (B2)

Writing

• 4 main parts of speech 
• noun = zelfstandig naamwoord (people, places, things)
• verb = werkwoord (write, walk, talk)
• adjective = bijvoegelijk naamwoord ( blue, beautiful, small)
• adverb = bijwoord (slowly, sometimes, tomorrow)

New York has extremely tall buildings.

Adverbs in writing

"to convey a clear meaning and place your sentence in a particular context"

Dana is an emotional person.

Dana is an overly emotional person.

Jacky visits her grandmother.

Jacky rarely visits her grandmother.

Adverbs in writing

Adverbs of frequency (how often) before the main verb.

Foxes rarely appear in the daytime.

But after: be, auxiliary verbs (be/ do/have), modal verbs (can/could/ should/must/might)

My boss is often late for work.

I have never watched a rugby match.

You should always be polite to elderly people.

Occassionally, usually, normally, often, frequently,  sometimes also at the beginning or end of sentences.

Adverbs in writing

Adverbs of manner (how) after the verb.

Foxes run fast.

Lions move slowly and silently.

She speaks Russian fluently. (after the object)

Adverbs in writing

Adverbs of place and time at the end of sentences.

Foxes usually hunt at night.

Emphasise adverbs of place and time > beginning of sentences.

Do you drive to work on your own every day? No. On Mondays a friend comes with me.

Exercise 1

In each sentence one adverb is in the wrong position. Circle the word and write down the sentence with the adverb in the correct position.

In the wild foxes rarely are aggressive to peole.

Answers

1) She is occassionally on the same train as me.

    Occassionally she is on the same train as me.

   She is on the same train as me occassionally.

2) I don't like eating a heavy meal in the evenings. 

     In the evenings I don't like eating a heavy meal.

3) We always buy organic food.

4) I received an interesting email this morning.

    This morning I received an interesting email.

5) Danny often has fruit for breakfast.

Answers

6) My sister and I watch TV during the daytime.

     During the daytime my sister and I watch TV.

7) It's snowing so everyone is driving slowly.

8) You should always wash your hands before a meal.

9) We hardly ever have lunch here.

10) Samantha sang well at the concert on Friday.

Intensifying and softening adverbs

Used to strengthen or weaken the meaning of adverbs, verbs or adjectives.

Her comments were deeply offensive.

Her comments were slightly offensive.

Exercise 8.1 -8.5 (adverbs)

https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/grammar/adjectives-nouns.htm (adjectives)

Review

Review

• Give your review a title
• Mention: 

the type of book/film

the characters

some of the story

what makes the book/film different

• Use plenty of adverbs and adjectives

https:

Language Portfolio

• Dossier: collect or create content you can use to show that you've reached your learning targets.

Writing:

write a description of the plot of a book or film (B1)

write a short review of a book or film (B2)

Language Portfolio

I proved my reading progress by adding materials to the dossier. 

I proved my listening progress by adding materials to the dossier.

I proved my writing progress by adding materials to the dossier.

I proved my spoken progress by adding materials to the dossier.

I made a vocabulary file with new words, sentences and expressions.

I used OneDrive to store my Language Portfolio.

I linked practical ICT subjects to English.

I filled in my personal expectations.

I filled in the ways I learn best.

I set learning targets  (A2, B1, B2,)

Next Week:

Progress Review