Lesson 3: houses - 2Q

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• Leerjaar 2

Chapter 4: Houses

Lesson 3

Lesson 3 

Planning

Silent reading from "The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"

What do you remember?

Checking the homework

Comparatives, modifiers, prepositions and adverbs 

Speaking exercise: guess the house

Writing exercise: descibing your room 

Silent Reading 

What do you remember: present perfect continuous

Present perfect continuous = 

use = when an action has started in the past and is still going on in the present, especially when you want to emphasize the activity or time frame 

- when a past action has recently stopped

What does it look like:

- have/has + been + verb -ing 

Signal words: recently, lately

Checking the homework 

Choices, pg. 30/31

Comparatives, modifiers, prepositions and adverbs

Quick reminder 

Comparatives

Modifiers

Prepositions 

Adverbs

an adjective used to compare two people or things 

a word or phrase that is used to change the meaning of another word

a word used before a noun, pronoun or noun phrase to show direction, time, place location etc. 

Describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb

Comparatives 

Modifiers 

Prepositions

Adverbs

Slightly, a bit, much, even etc. 

Bigger than, older than, more expensive than etc. 

above, in, on, next to, before, behind etc. 

downstairs, inside, outside, etc. 

Do exercise 3 and 4 on pg. 32

After 3-5 minutes, we will check the answers together

Speaking: Guess the house

On the next slide you will see 6 pictures of the inside of a house.

Speaker A picks out one picture and gets 1 minute to describe this house. Speaker B then guesses which house they're talking about. 

Take turns doing this for 2 rounds each. 

Try to make use of prepositions and comparisons!

Writing: Describing your room 

Describe what the inside of your room looks like!

Use 150-200 words to do this

Use at least 4 prepositions and make 2 comparisons

Hand it in before the end of the lesson on Padlet:

Put a timer on the board for 20 minutes. 

Example

Tips and tops about me / the lesson:
Try to write down at least 1 tip and 1 top

Homework

Do exercise 1 and 2 on pg. 36/37