Periode 3- Week 2

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

• Building Blocks A2 - Unit 3

-Recap
-Text Structures
-3.2 Reading: 16-33

• Shopping Matters Unit 3

Building Blocks A2-Unit 3

Fame and entertainment

Recap

control

check

explore

indicate

release

solve

What are the three parts of a text?

Building Blocks A2- Unit 3

Text organisation

1 introduction

This is the first part of a text. The introduction tells you what the text will be about. This helps you to decide if you want to read the full text.

2 body

This is the main part of a text. The body contains information, ideas or arguments. This is usually the largest part of a text and can have several paragraphs.

3 conclusion

This is the final part that brings the text to a logical end. A conclusion can include different things, such as a summary, an opinion or a call for action.

You can use the first and last part of a text for clues about the body: what is this text about? Will it give me the information I need?

Sequence & Chronology

Text structure: sequence and chronology (volgorde van gebeurtenissen en tijd).

This structure is used to list events or steps:

- steps on how to do or make something

For example: first you do this, secondly you do that, and finally/lastly you ... (= sequence)

- by the order in which events happened in time

For example: in the morning this happened, then that happened, the next day something else happened (= chronology)

You can recognise a text structure by looking for signal words.

Signal words: ‘first(ly)’, ‘second(ly)’, ‘then’, ‘next’, ‘earlier’, ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘finally’, ‘last(ly)’.

Description

This structure is used to explain something: a subject, idea, person, place or thing. The writer often describes characteristics or features and gives examples.

 

Signal words: ‘as well as’, ‘also’, ‘for example’, ‘such as’, ‘for instance’.

Comparison and contrast

This structure is used to compare two or more items, people, events, ideas, et cetera. It tells you how these are similar to each other, or different from each other.

 

Signal words: ‘but’, ‘too’, ‘just like’, ‘however’, ‘similar’, ‘on the other hand’, ‘both’.

Building Blocks A2- Unit 3.2

-Exercise 16-33

Finished?: Woordtrainer

Vocabulary: signal words

1. so
2. for instance
3. another way
4. also
5. for example
6. furthermore
7. similar
8. however
9. while
10. on the other hand

Shopping Matters

Describing products and services

Warm-up

A) Label the departments in a department store (1-12) with words from the box.

B) Explain where a customer must go to buy the products that are written down.

e.g. a bottle of mineral water

Exercise 2

A) Listen to Vanessa helping three customers and fill in the gaps with the words you hear.

B) Find the English equivalents of the Dutch phrases in the dialogues. 

Answers

1. luggage department
2. luggage
3. travel adapter/adaptor
4. tennis racket
5. electrical appliances
6. sports
7. dress
8. women's wear
9. escalator
10. sorry

Exercise 3

Finding your way around a large department store

Look at the diagram of the department store and say where customers can find the following items: a football - a hoody - a suitcase - a tin opener- an electric shaver -contact lenses - perfume- tights