Unit 3, Lesson 1: Vocabulary, Reading, Language Focus 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

To start

1. Go sit in your assigned seat
2. Take out your book and notebook
3. Be ready to begin when the timer ends

Unit 3     Strange stories

Goals

I can...

• tell a story using action verbs.
• understand strange stories
• talk about my activities in the past
• describe how I do things
• talk about the things I could and couldn't do when I was younger
• tell someone my news
• write a story

Goals for unit 3

Vocabulary

Action Verbs

What do these words mean?

Thief

To steal

Intro exercise 1, unit 3.1

Reading

A newspaper article

Treasure

Intro to exercise 1, unit 3.2

Pictures

Look at the four pictures with your neighbour.

What do you think the story is here?

• Let's check what you all thought.

Time to read

• Read the text
• Work on exercises 3, 4, 5, and 6
• You may work together with your neigbour
• You may listen along to the text in the digital book if you have earbuds.
• Finished? Study the irregular verbs

Language focus 1

Past continuous

Past continuous use

• Things happening in the past while something else is happening
• Things that caused annoyance

• form

to be + verb+ing

• I was walking.
• You were walking.
• He/She/It was walking.

• We were walking.
• You were walking.
• They were walking.

• I was not walking.
• You were not walking.
• He/She/It was not walking.

• We were not walking.
• You were not walking.
• They were not walking.

Past continuous + and -

• Was I walking?
• Were you walking?
• Was he/she/it walking?

• Were we walking?
• Were you walking?
• Were they walking?

Past continuous +?

Time to work

• Work on exercises 2 and 4
• Do this independently (= on your own)
• You may listen to music using your laptop
• Finished? Practice with verbs on Verbuga (see link on Magister)