2425 V4 MAX 3.3 + TED talk Sail Away + simple Passive

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Final lesson

Good to see you,

V4

Mon 26/2 - Fri 1/3

Study objectives:

I can 

• answer questions about a TED talk
• understand important factual information in short texts

 

This week's work:

• TED talk (3): Sail Away
• Of Course §3.3 exc 7-9, 12

 

Finish diagnostic reading test 1 (havo 2013-1) 

• check your answers + hand in your results on Teams
  

 

 

TONIGHT: deadline video presentations (22hrs)

TED talk: Sail Away - Jessica Watson (17min)

 In Jessica's talk, she looks at the decisions she made on her way to becoming the youngest person to sail solo - non-stop around the world. And her key message is this - it's great to dream - but living your dreams is even better.

Please answer the questions while watching the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT1UZHod-Q

TED talk: Sail Away - Jessica Watson (17min)

 In Jessica's talk, she looks at the decisions she made on her way to becoming the youngest person to sail solo - non-stop around the world. And her key message is this - it's great to dream - but living your dreams is even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT1UZHod-Q

1. What inspired Jessica to take up sailing? 

Adventure stories read to her by her mum, especially the ones about Jesse Martin who sailed around the world aged 18.

2. What is celestial navigation?

Navigating by the stars

3. How did Jessica manage to fund her journey?

By finding sponsors

She was sponsored by smaller local companies and someone (Don McIntyre) bought her a boat

 

TED talk: Sail Away - Jessica Watson (17min)

 In Jessica's talk, she looks at the decisions she made on her way to becoming the youngest person to sail solo - non-stop around the world. And her key message is this - it's great to dream - but living your dreams is even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT1UZHod-Q

4. What is special about the team that helped Jessica prepare?

They were all volunteers

5. What happened at her first night out at sea?

She crashed into a huge containership

6. How did this incident change her?

Strangely, it made her more self-confident. It proved to her that she could keep a cool head in difficult situations

 

TED talk: Sail Away - Jessica Watson (17min)

 In Jessica's talk, she looks at the decisions she made on her way to becoming the youngest person to sail solo - non-stop around the world. And her key message is this - it's great to dream - but living your dreams is even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT1UZHod-Q

7. What made Jessica hang on when she hit her second severe storm?

After her boat had been rolled upside down several times she feared she was going to die. She somehow became very rational and came to the conclusion she wanted to hang on (survive) because she didn’t want to put her family through the grief of losing her.

8. What did Jessica want to achieve with her solo journey around the world?

She wanted to show that we do have the power to make our dreams come true.

‘Dreams are so much better when you’re living them!’

 

Of Course MAX: 3.3 (pp.138-139)

•  vocabulary: exc 7
  
• grammar: exc 8, 9 (explanation in following slides)
  
• speaking: 12
  

 

 

What is the passive voice?

Sometimes, we don’t say who does an action because it’s not important or we don’t know. Instead, we focus on what happens.

Present Simple Passive (happens regularly)

✅ Active: People use smart speakers in many homes.

✅ Passive: Smart speakers are used in many homes.

✅ Active: Shops sell millions of smart speakers every year.

✅ Passive: Millions of smart speakers are sold every year.

(We don’t say who sells them because it’s obvious or not important.)

am/are is + 

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Why use the passive voice?

 • When we don’t know who did something.

✅ A mistake was made. (We don’t know who made it.)

 • When the action is more important than the person.

✅ A new app was created for smart speakers.

Past Simple Passive (happened before)

✅ Active: Engineers invented the first smart speaker in 2014.

✅ Passive: The first smart speaker was invented in 2014.

✅ Active: The company released a new model last year.

✅ Passive: A new model was released last year.

(We focus on the invention, not the engineers.)

was/were  + 

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enjoy your holiday!

(and remember to finish your diagnostic reading test by Friday)