SB Unit 9 Vocabulary and Reading

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SB Unit 9 Future leaders

Programme

- Start Unit 9

SB p. 110 Vocabulary

SB p. 111 Reading

Exercise 1

Maak opdracht 1 in je SB of doe de volgende sleepvraag.

Het belangrijkste is dat je de woorden leert kennen/ kent.

Capital city

currency

flag

national anthem

prime minister

president

royal family

Answers:

A = currency = valuta, het geld dat gebruikt wordt in een land.

B = flag = vlag. Op het plaatje staat de Britse vlag.

C = royal family = koninklijke familie. Op het plaatje zie je de Britse koninklijke familie.

D = capital city = hoofdstad.

E = national anthem = volkslied.

F = prime minister = minister president (GB: Boris Johnson)

G = president = president (USA: Joe Biden)

Exercise 3

Do exercise 3:

Match the types of government with the definitions on the next slide.

Constitutional monarchy

Democracy

Monarchy

Republic

A country that is ruled by a president or other leader, not by a king or queen.

A system of government where people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them.

A type of government where a country is ruled by a king or queen.

A country ruled by a king or queen whose powers are limited by a set of basic laws.

Answers

Constitutional monarchy: constitutionele monarchie (land met een koning(in), maar niet 1 die alle macht heeft).

Democracy: democratie

Monarchy: monarchie

Republic: republiek

Exercise 5

Read the text on SB p. 110 and match the underlined words with the definitions 1 - 8.

Answers

1. Occasions when you can vote for a government - general elections

2. A part of an organisation or group - member

3. Groups of people with similar ideas about politics - political parties

4. Control, organise - run

5. Official rules that people must obey - laws

6. Plans or actions agreed on by a government - policies

7. Formally express an opinion by choosing between one or more people or parties - vote

8. Series of things that a political party does to try to win an election - campaigns

Reading

Queen Elizabeth I

and the boy from Bisley

1. What do you know about British royals?

2. What's a conspiracy theory?

SB p. 111

Read the text

Finished reading before the clock ran out of time?

Do exercise 3.

Answers

1. Elizabeth I reigned for almost fifty years (1558 - 1603). During her time her government was stable and England became an international power.
2. So that they formed links with other nations.
3. She was staying at a house called Over Court in Bisley to avoid the plague.
4. Henry did not visit his daughter often and Elizabeth was quiet and uncomfortable with him.
5. A boy from the village of Bisley took Elizabeth's place because she had died after falling ill. There was only one boy with red hair, so they dressed him up as a girl and lied.
6. Because perhaps they were literally true.
7. She always wore a lot of make-up and wigs.
8. A coffin was found in Bisley. Inside it there was a young girl dressed in very fine clothes. Nobody in the village could have had such fine clothes, only a princess.
   

Exercise 5

1. reigned

2. stable

3. the plague

4. skin

5. speech

6. wigs

7. coffin

Answers:

1. ruled/ was king or queen
2. doesn't change
3. a dangerous illness (de pest)
4. covering on your body
5. important words at presentation
6. pretend hair
7. wooden box for dead bodies
   

Wednesday and Thursday

- No class tomorrow, due to 'mentor' duties WEM

- Thursday: Group A at school and Group B at home: Please check your homework in the Magister study guide!