Reading havo tekst 5

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Reading Havo tekst 5

After today you will be:

• to better able to understand the main ideas of a text
• to better answer questions about a text
  

The wolf at the door

First go to ItsLearning and open "Havo Tekst 5"

• Read the title
• Read the first paragraph
  
• Read the last paragraph
  

Explain briefly what the text is about. So, what is the global main idea?

Answer in Dutch.

The wolf at the door

Now read the entire text carefully while:

• thinking about the local main idea for each paragraph
• writing down important words you don't know
  

Questions

Finally, answer a few questions about the text.

• Answer open questions in Dutch.

What becomes clear about the H1N1 virus in paragraph 1?
1 It spread further than SARS and H5N1.
2 It was a comparatively innocent virus.

1. only 1 is correct
2. only 2 is correct
3. both 1 and 2 are correct
4. neither 1 nor 2 are correct

What is the main problem with flu epidemics according to the writer, judging from paragraphs 1 and 2?

1. Health authorities are hardly better prepared to deal with them.
2. Health authorities issue warnings about them without consulting the pharmaceutical industry.
3. Health authorities tend to send out reassuring messages about them.
4. Health authorities unnecessarily spend a lot of money on battling them.

“short-sighted types who say that the warnings are only meaningful if the worst actually comes to pass” (paragraph 4)

Which of the following sentences from the text is in line with this reasoning?

1. “But its relatively low death toll was taken by some as evidence that the public health response had been an overreaction” (paragraph 1)
2. They are thought to lack the ambition for a career at high level.
3. They have been employed for the wrong reasons until recently.
4. They have been overlooked by those responsible for hiring employees.

“The wolf at the door” (title)

Which of the following does “the wolf” in this text refer to?

1. policy made by ill-informed officials
2. the interests of the pharmaceutical industry
3. the outbreak of a contagious disease
4. the unreliability of scientific evidence

Difficult words

On the next slide write down all the the words from the text you didn't know.

Also include the Dutch meaning that first the context of the text.

Words you didn't know