A1A 11-5 reading strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

A1A English class 11 May

At the end of this lesson you ...

• will have practised two reading strategies
• will have learned something about bungee jumping
  
• will have learned (more) English words to describe emotions. 
  

Why is it important to practise reading (skills)?

What do you do before you start reading a text?

1. Je kijkt naar plaatjes
2. Je kijkt wat voor soort tekst het is
3. Je kijkt hoeveel alinea's de tekst heeft
4. Je kijkt naar de kopjes

Tips for understanding the text

Two useful strategies:

• Skimming
• Scanning

Find out more about how to skim and scan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbibQDQxd4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbibQDQxd4

If your friends dropped off a bridge, would you too? 

                                                           Oh yes, I would! And you should too!

Text: Bunjee Jumping

Instructions: 

1. Open the text by clicking here.  
2. Skim the text 
3. Answer question 1 about the text 

Question 1

What is the text about? You can answer in Dutch.

Practise scanning

Now that you have learnt how to skim the text to find out its general meaning, you can start scanning the text to find out the answers to the questions in the next slides. 

Find out more about how to skim and scan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbibQDQxd4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbibQDQxd4

Read paragraph 1 .
Why do people Bunjee Jump even though it is scary? (You can answer in Dutch)

Read paragraph 2
Why do the men of Pentacost Island still keep the tradition? (You can answer in Dutch)

Read paragraph 3
What were David Kirke and his friends doing when the police arrived?

Read paragraph 4
Where and when was the first commercial bungee site built?

Word match exercise

Match the words with their meaning in this exercise . by typing them into the empty boxes

(right click on the link, when you are finished click on the 'finish' button and check your answers

Extreme sports can make you feel extreme emotions. How do you express those in English? 

Choose one activity from the next six slides and  make a voice recording about how it would feel to do one of the activities on the right.  

Choose from: 

canyoning

walking on a rope bridge

kayaking

horse riding

paragliding

white water rafting

Some feelings to choose from

(but you can also choose your own!)

neutral	strong	very strong
happy	excited	super excited
calm	frightened	petrified
confident	nervous	anxious

If I went canyoning I would feel.... Because...

If I went horse riding I would feel.... Because......

If I went walking on a rope bridge I would feel..... Because.......

how I'd feel if I went paragliding

If I went kayaking I would feel....... Because........

If I went white water rafting I would feel..... Because.....

fun with emojis

Can you match the emoji with the emotion? 

Click here to try on this worksheet

Have you learnt how to ..

• to use reading strategies to understand a text?
  
• bunjee jumping was invented?
• to use the right words to express emotions?