Reading & Listening

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

reading

Does Reading Affect Your Mental Health?

Does Reading Affect Your Mental Health?

1. Yes, I think so!
2. No, I don't think so

Explain your answer

Take the next steps and answer the questions for the text on the next slide.

Step 1:

Take a look at the pictures, the title and the first paragraph, what do you think this text is about?

Step 2: 

What sort of text is this? What does that tell you about the factuality of this text?

Step 3:

Skim the text and underline or write cown any words you don't know. Do you need these words to understand the text?

Questions about the content:

What illness is mentioned? What is the answer to the question posed in the title?

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Last time, we discussed these reading strategies:

Step 1:

Take a look at the pictures, the title and the first paragraph, what do you think this text is about?

Step 2: 

What sort of text is this? What does that tell you about the factuality of this text?

Step 3:

Skim the text and underline or write cown any words you don't know. Do you need these words to understand the text?

Questions about the content:

What illness is mentioned? What is the answer to the question posed in the title?

Let's answer some questions to check what you've learnt!

What does factuality mean?

Why can the source of a text influence its factuality/reliability?

Do you need to understand all words of a text to answer the questions? Why (not)?

What thingS (more than 1), can you do when you run into difficult words?

Conclusion after reading: Does Reading Affect Your Mental Health?

1. Yes, It does
2. No, It doesn't

The Surprising Science of Happiness

Listening/watching Practice

Kijk de video in de volgende slide en beantwoord de vragen.

00:16

What do you think dissatisfaction means?

00:53

What do you think it means to counteract something?

01:25

What is an antidote? And what is the antidote for dissatisfaction according to this video?

01:38

Why do you think they mention that all sources are included in the description? How does that influence the factuality of this video?

02:06

What is reciprocity? Explain in your own words. If you do not know, look it up. Maybe you even have to look up the meaning of the Dutch word.

02:42

Wat gebeurde er volgens dit filmpje heel vroeger met mensen die ondankbaar/individualistisch waren?

04:24

How are gratitude and your memory connected?

06:07

Gratitude exercise

In de volgende slides kun je kopieën vinden van het Gratitude Journal waar in de video over gesproken wordt. Je gaat dit voor jezelf (in het Engels) invullen. In de derde slide zit een link naar een google form waar je de antwoorden kunt typen. 

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GOALS ACHIEVED?

After today, you:

• know various NEW words that are linked to Government & Politics and can use them to complete sentences.
• know various reading strategies and can use them to understand a text or audio. 
• learnt new things about happiness and dissatifaction and took some time to reflect on your own happiness.

Goals achieved?

1. Yes
2. No
3. A bit

06:07

What do you think? Is happiness just a matter of perspective?