Theme 2: Creative minds

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 4

Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower), Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Petronas Twin Towers

Lesson overview

• Warm-up: famous towers
  
• Vocabulary: theme words
  
• Reading: Watts Towers
  
• Havo group: writing an email
  

Which famous towers
do you know?

Activate prior knowledge:

Which famous towers do you know? They may be anywhere in the world.

Then group these; eg:

per country

materials

according to height

After this lesson you will be able to:

Talk about designing and building something,

using the theme words.

Theme words:

• to construct
  
• fabric
  
• one-of-a-kind
  
• blueprint
  
• draft
  
• designer
  
• measurements
  
• modify
  

• to reproduce
  
• trademark
  
• component
  
• depth
  
• handicraft
  
• height
  
• to sculpt
  
• width
  

Activity book p. 32

Find the words, ex. 3 (time: 5 min)

Done? Start with exercise 4

Watts Towers

LA's weird masterpiece

Reading strategy:

reading globally

Read: instructions p. 33

Complete: fact file

Watts Towers

Complete ex. 6

Hammer and chisel

Anvil

Watts Towers

Differentiation:

Read theme words: complete ex 3 and 4

Read globally: complete ex. 5

Read again: complete ex. 7

Are you able to.....

talk about designing and building something, using the theme words?

Talk about designing and building something, using the theme words. Write 1 or 2 sentences.

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