SE Speaking text 9/ SB Unit 23 Listening & Exam folder 10

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Thursday, March 16th

Programme

- 10 minutes of silent reading

- SE Speaking: Text 9

- SB Unit 23: Listening & Exam Folder 10 (continued)

- Work on your 3-minute speech

Read your novel

Text 9: Around the world in 4,205 days

In pairs

- Read paragraph 1 and talk about what happened.

- Paragraph 2: What do you think 'flotilla' means?

- Did the load consist of ducks only?

- Read paragraphs 3 - 8 and talk about how 'these toys have been working during their trip'.

Answer the following questions

- Scan the text and look at how these ducks have been able to help 'investigate a suspected murder (...) along the way'.

(Hint: go to page 24)

- Explain the pun (joke with words) in paragraph 26: "The person who finds the first one is going to make a big splash." Also explain how.

Discuss

Paragraph 20:

"There are 50 of these big steel cargo containers floating in the Atlantic at any one time and they're definitely a hazard."

What are the dangers of these floating containers in the Atlantic? Any ideas on solution(s)?

Any questions?

Listening

Turn to SB p. 144

Read the Exam Spot

Do exercise 2

Get to work!

- Finish Exam Folder 10 (SB p. 146/147, exercises 3 - 8)

- Work on your 3-minute speech for the SE Speaking in testweek 3

Tomorrow

- Bring your device to class

We're going to do some writing practice and there will be more time to work on your 3-minute speech.

-> practice round next week!