Week 38

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

English - Year 3

To Do

Watching / Listening

Speaking

Writing

Aims

After this lesson you should be able to:

- find information in a written and spoken text

- describe a person who influenced you

- write a wiki entry about a person who influenced you

Michelangelo

- Born in 1475 in Tuscany, Italy.

Preview

What: Exercise 2: what do the words in bold mean?  Write down the 

                                      descriptions in English.

                                       which 2 pairs of words have opposite meanings?

                                    

              Exercise 3: Read the text in the blue box and answer the 

                                      question.

How:  in pairs

DVD - View

What: Exercise 4A: Which of the sentences do you think are true?

How: Individually

We're going to watch the DVD to check your answers.

• 1) True
• 2) True
• 3) False
• 4) True
• 5) False
• 6) False

DVD - View

What: Exercise 5A: Read the notes and fill in the missing words.

How: Individually  

We're going to watch the documentary again to check the answers

Answers

1. riches
2. beautiful
3. simple
4. unhappy
5. talent
6. earth

Speaking

Listen to the fragment and answer the following questions in English:

1. Who does she talk about?

2. How did this person's work change her life?

Listen again and tick the key phrases you hear.

Speaking

What: exercise 6C & 6D

6 C) Plan to describe someone whose work influenced you. 

Write brief notes about: what they did, their place in history, what you learnt from them and how it has influenced the way you do things.

6 D) Work in pairs and take turns to describe your person.

Writing

What: Exercise 7A: Read the proposal

             Exercise 7B: Read an example entry. 

                                         Does the entry fit the requirements in the proposal?

                                         Is anything missing?

            Exercise 7C: Write your wiki entry about the person whose work 

                                        influenced you. 

                                        - 150-200 words

                                       - hand it in by email ( [e-mail])

What would you like to do in next week's lesson?