Periode 3- Week 2

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

• Recap Unit 3.1
• English Connect: Business Partner Unit 3.2

Unit 3 -Projects

3.2: Large Scale Projects

At the end of this lesson you can understand and make comparisons.

The Millennium Bridge opened in the year 2000, on the millennium, but that was actually slightly behind schedule and slightly over b...........

After a s....... (tegenslag) like this, the project manager's highest priority is to manage all the different specialist teams who are working on the bridge.

It's not the kind of risk you can just p.......... (voorspellen) easily.

Verb= construct, noun = c.....

Noun = movement, verb = m

Verb= add, noun = a

Verb= decide, noun = d

3.2  Lead-in

Work in pairs or small groups. Look at the map and photos and answer the questions.

1) Why do governments decide to build shipping canals? What are the benefits?

2) What kinds of jobs does this sort of building project create? Who works on a big canal-building project?

3) Can you name any other shipping canals?

3.2  Lead-in

 Match each description with a canal on the map.

Grand Canal- Panama Canal- Suez Canal

a) goes through the desert in Egypt, connecting

the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea

b) connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by crossing

Central America

c ) connects the Chinese capital city of Beijing with

several rivers and other cities

Trappen van vergelijking

(not) as .... as:      as tall as / not as tall as

korte woorden:   woord + er                          smarter  (than)

                                   woord + est             (the) smartest

lange woorden:  more + woord             more beautiful (than)

                                   most + woord         (the) most beautiful

eigen vorm:  good - better -best / bad -worse -worst / etc

Trappen van vergelijking

1. Joe is ................................than Ed. (short)

2. Al is the ........................................(short)

3. Ed is the........................................ (thin)

4. Joe is ......................................... than Al. (thin)

5. Al has the.....................................  clothes. (colourful)

6. Al is ................................................... than Joe. (heavy)

7. Ed is the................................................. (light)

8. Joe is.........................................  than Ed. (happy)

9. Ed is the ........................................ (mysterious)

10. Joe is .............................................than Ed. (energetic)

3.2-Exercises

Exercise 2: Listen and match each canal with two facts.

Exercise 3: Listen again and complete the information about each project.

Exercise 4A:  Listen and complete the extracts.

Exercise 4B: Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

Exercise 5: Look at the information from Exercises 2 and 3. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. Add than or as … as where necessary.

Exercise 6A: Listen to three bids to provide a new computer network for a shipping company. Answer the questions.

Exercise 6B:  Listen again and complete the notes.