Meth 3 Pentapie, reading

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 4

Lesson overview

• Warm-up: famous towers
  
• Reading: Watts Towers
  
• Vocabulary: Theme words
• Speaking: Famous buildings

After this lesson you will be able to:

Talk about the design of a famous tower and compare this with another one, using the theme words.

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

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

Watts Towers

LA's weird masterpiece

Reading strategy:

predicting

Watts Towers

Complete ex. 5 + 6

Work individually first

Then check work in pairs

Watts Towers

Vocabulary - 

Complete worksheet with theme words

Guided questions:

Part 1:

My favourite tower is ....

Give a description (shape, location, materials used)

Why you like it

Part 2:

Compare the tower with your neighbour using the theme words

Are you able to.....

Talk about the design of a famous tower and compare this with another tower,

using the theme words?

Write about a famous tower and why you like it. Write 2 sentences.

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