H4 lessons 2 and 3 - week 36

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Today's class - 1st hour

• Review HW:

- Reading comprehension lesson 2 - ex. 5-9

-Vocabulary & suffixes - ex. 12/13/14

•  Past Simple vs Present Perfect - time adjuncts (= signal words) - ex. 15 & 16

• Extra - Irregular verbs

• HW = ex. 17 -> prepare a short (3 min. speech) pretending to be Lauren having won the Young Player of the Year award. Give the speech in your group in class/

Prefix/affix or suffix - ex. 13/14

Morpheme = a meaningful unit of language that cannot be divided any further. 

For example: un-, dis-, pre-, -ment, -ship, --ion etc.

A morpheme can be a prefix or a suffix/affix to a root word (=often a verb)

Present Perfect vs Past Simple - ex. 15/16

General rule Past Simple:

• Regular verbs: verb + ED
• Irregular verbs: 2nd form (know by heart!!!!!)
• Used when ACTIONION IS FINISHED - WHEN is IMPORTANT
• Signal words/time adjunts: when/ago/last night/last week/yesterday etc.

General rule Present Perfect:

• has (he/she/it) + past participle(-> regular verbs: verb + ED / irregular verbs: 3rd form)
• have (I/you/we/they) + past participle (-> regular verbs + ED / irregular verbs: 3rd form)
• Used for: RESULT is import (when=  NOT IMPORTANT/NOT MENTIONED; EXPERIENCE; RECENT ACTION; ACTION THAT STARTED IN THE PAST + IS STILL GOING ON /
• Signal words/time adjuncts: for/since/already/never/ever/always/yet/before/how long/how often etc.

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Today's class - 2nd hour

• Reading your novel

• Making a mindmap for your novel (plot/characters/setting AND theme)

Mindmap novel

Mindmap characteristics
dystopian/separate society

Important elements novel

• characters (main/sub)
• setting (when/where)
• plot (chain of events that make the story)
• conflict (protagonist = hero/good guy VS antagonist = bad guy/opposes hero; internal struggle)
• resolution (solution to conflict)
• theme (universal idea about life: love, hate, revenge, betrayal, power, control etc.)

• point of view (who is telling the story? I-person, 3rd person ?)
• style (language used by the writer)

Important elements plot

1. exposition (=setting/characters introduced)
2. rising action
3. climax (the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved)
4. falling action
5. resolution (conflict is resolved)