V4 English week 17

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V4 week 17

- Finish your book and make a plan for your presentation. Answer at least the following question:

  What will be the Focal Point that you have chosen to discuss your book?

  Briefly discuss how this FP is connected to your book.

- Please do the following exercises in the Objective Advanced book and check your own work.

Ex. 6,7,8 pp. 68-9

Ex. 2,3,4,5 pp. 70-1

- Check your work and insert (a) photograph(s) of your written and checked work in the

  VEF Week 6 and hand it in before Friday 5 pm via 'Magister Opdrachten'.

Book presentation

1. After the May holiday, in small groups digitally during class hours. We will start May 12. You will be sorted into groups at random.
2. Make sure you have finished your book by the end of the May holiday.
3. Email the presentation visuals (ppt, prezi etc) to your teacher the day before your presentation for reviewing (you will use screenshare in Teams during your presentation itself).
4. Your teacher and about 3/4 classmates will see your presentation & it will be evaluated.

Focal points

What is a focal point? - a particular part of the book that you want to highlight in your presentation. This can be about several things: how the author's life has influenced the book; the impact this book has had on other works of fiction; the impact it has on culture in general; what theme really stands out to you?

How do you find a good one? - Have a look online and google your book. What do other people say about it? Is there anything you thought stood out? Is there a particular way of storytelling going on? What do you think the author wants to teach/tell the readers?  Are you reading a classic or highly popular novel - try having a look at www.sparknotes.com or www.litcharts.com

Other sites you can try: bookrags, thebestnotes, novelguide, shmoop. 

Example

I recently read the book Renegades by Marissa Meyer. It is about an apocalyptic world where superheroes rule after they won a battle with supervillains. The main character is a villain going undercover to destroy what the superheroes have built. 

My focal point could be: how does the author establish morality in a world where good vs bad is the same as hero vs villain?

While reading I learned that the heroes lie and bully, and the villains just want to live a life free of oppression. Both sides do things considered good and both sides do things considered bad. I've learned that it is not so much about what makes a hero, but more about the 'victor' deciding on the rules. In my presentation, I would give examples from the book to support my focal point.

Focal point: what could
yours be about?

Grammar revision

Grammar unit 9: Future Tenses

Future tenses

1. Simple Future:                  will walk / am going to walk
   
2. Present Continous         am walking
   
3. Present Simple                walk/walks
   
4. Be + infinitive                    are to walk/ are not to walk
   
5. Future Continuous         will be going
   
6. Future Perfect                  will have walked
   
7. Future in the past           was going to walk/ would walk
   

Future simple

will + verb: 

- used to talk about a future action or event at the point of decision: I will come to cinema with you tonight.

- used to make predictions about the future: You will meet a tall, dark stranger.

- used to make promises: I will buy a car for your birthday.

to be going to + verb:

- used to talk about intentions/ plan & decisions based on intentions: We're going to visit our friends in New Zealand next winter.

- used to talk about future events and actions based on present evidence, especially when we can see that the event is imminent: Watch out! We're going to hit that tree!

Present continuous

to be + verb & -ing: 

Used to talk about plans and arrangements for the future. A time reference often makes the future meaning clear:

- What are you doing tonight?

- We're meeting early tomorrow morning.

Present simple

verb/verb + s:

- used to talk about timetables and schedules: 

   Our trains leaves at 6.30 tomorrow morning.

- used  with future references  in subordinate clauses after time conjunctions such as  when, before, until, as soon as:

   I hope you will text us as soons as you get home.

be + infinitive

Used in formal situations. Often in rules or instructions, or when you talk about official plans. Common in news reports.

- Staff are not to use company telephones for personal calls

- The Prime Minister is to visit South Africa next month

Future continuous

will + be + verb & -ing:

Focuses on an action or event in progress at a specific time in the future. 

- This time next week I'll be lying on a beach in Italy.

- This day next month I will be spending more time with my family.

Future perfect

will + have + past participle:

used when looking forward to a future time and then looks back from that point.

- By the end of next year we will have finished the project.

- When the summer rolls around, we will have redecorated the entire house.

Future in the past

was/were + going to + verb OR would + verb

used to look back at a past time and talk about the future as it was at that past time.

- By the time I left school I knew I was going to become a doctor.

- I thought it would be cold today, but it isn't.

1. The bus ___ at 7.30. We will have to wait a bit longer.

1. will be arriving
2. will arriving
3. arrives
4. is going to arrive

2. The report on air pollution ___ next Thursday.

1. will have finished
2. will be finishing
3. will be finished
4. will finish

3. The book ___ by the end of this year.

1. will have been published
2. will publish
3. will be publishing
4. publish

4. What __________ at the weekend?

1. will you do
2. are you going to do
3. are you doing

5. If you keep running around on this slippery floor ______

1. you will fall over
2. you're going to fall over
3. you're going to fall over

6. By the time I retire _______________ .

1. I'll have worked here for twenty years
2. I'll be working here for twenty years
3. I'm working here for twenty years

7. This time next week _______________ .

1. I will sit on the beach in Thailand
2. I will be sitting on the beach in Thailand
3. I will have sat on the beach in Thailand

8. Where do you think ___________ in ten years' time?

1. you are going to live
2. you are living
3. you will be living

End of class

• Don't forget to prepare your presentation & make sure you have a focal point. You can always ask your teacher to check if it is a good one.
• Fill and hand in the VEF for this week on Friday!

Have a great May holiday!