Mondeling Engels

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 4

Oral Proficiency

Part I and II

• Introduction
• Historical Photo 

A peasant girl on a footbridge 

We are seven

William Wordsworth

Tekst

1798 - Romantic period

The speaker of “We Are Seven” recalls a conversation with a young girl who insists that there are seven children in her family, despite the fact that two of them have passed away. The speaker insists that, logically, there are now only five children in her family, and portrays the little girl as unable to fully comprehend death. In doing so, the speaker suggests that childhood innocence gives rise to a blissful yet limited understanding of the world, while adults are left to grapple with life’s harsh realities.

The speaker stands by his understanding of death as something that definitively severs people from life. The young girl, on the other hand, proposes that death is the transformation of life rather than its loss—that it is part of a larger natural cycle and, as such, that the dead remain closely connected to the living world. These two perspectives are held in tension throughout the poem, without a clear resolution as to the nature of death and what death means for those left behind.

Part III 

Bij dit onderdeel krijg je een aantal stellingen die o.a. te maken hebben met het Edwardiaanse Tijdperk.

Hier geef je een mening over een bepaalde stelling en vertel je waarom dit jouw mening is.

Part III : theses

In class you conduct research on:

• The Edwardian Era (Clothes, food and art in the Edwardian Era)
  
• Men and women in the Edwardian Era
  
• Being gay in the Edwardian Era
  
• Child Labour in the Victorian Era 
• World War I
  

"Thesis time"

During the O.P.

• You will discuss at least two theses in your group.
• Provide some background information about the thesis you have to discuss.
• State whether you agree or disagree with the thesis. 
• Time three minutes. 

Women and men during the Edwardian Era

Thesis

‘’ Women and men were treated equally during the Edwardian Era ‘’

Agree/disagree

Class system in the Edwardian Era

Thesis

‘’ Life was easy being an Upper-class man in the Edwardian Age ’’

Agree/disagree

Being gay in the Edwardian Era

Thesis

‘’ You were allowed to live your life as a gay man or woman in the Edwardian Age ’’

Agree/disagree

Child Labour in the Edwardian Age

Thesis

‘’ Child labour was allowed in the Edwardian Era ‘’

Agree/disagree

The effects of WW I on the British people

Thesis

‘’ Getting yourself out of WW 1 was an act of cowardice ’’

Agree/disagree

Part 3 (OP) 

Explore 2 thesis 

- Women and men were treated equally in the Edwardian times

 

- Life was easy being an upper-class man during the Edwardian times 

What have you found? 

Being gay in the Edwardian Era

Thesis

‘’ You were allowed to live your life as a gay man or woman in the Edwardian Age ’’

Agree/disagree

The effects of WW I on the British people

Thesis

‘’ Getting yourself out of WW 1 was an act of cowardice ’’

Agree/disagree

Focus on the next 2 thesis 

‘’ You were allowed to live your life as a gay man or woman in the Edwardian Age ’’

‘’ Getting yourself out of WW 1 was an act of cowardice ’’