Start the year

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

Happy New Year!

Roadmap

• Online classes: set-up and expectations
• The upcoming test/tentamen
• New Year's kick-off
• Reading
• Quizlet live 

Online Classes

• Camera on
• Sound on mute
• Raise your hand when you want to say something
• Prepare for class:  - read theory in your RB/TB

                                              - watch YouTube clip

                                              - questions?

The upcoming test!

'Karim Benzema became Real Madrid's fifth all-time leading goalscorer with a double in a victory over Valencia, which closed the gap on league leader Barcelona to two points'.

Which tense is used in this sentence?

1. past continuous
2. past simple
3. past perfect
4. present simple

In her song 'No tears left to cry' and the pertaining video clip, Ariana Grande refers to a tragedy that took place in certain English city. Which one?

1. Liverpool
2. Birmingham
3. Manchester
4. London

In the clip, first the background singers and later Ariana herself sing 'I'm loving, I'm living, I'm picking it up'.

What tense is this?

1. Present simple
2. Past simple
3. Present continuous
4. Present perfect

'I'm sitting here in a boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon'.

Identify the adjectives in this quote from Fool's Garden's Lemon Tree

1. sitting, rainy
2. rainy, boring
3. boring
4. sitting, boring

Optimism abounds after a terrific run in the last couple of months.

Identify the adjectives.

1. optimism, terrific
2. abounds, terrific
3. after, last
4. terrific, last

They're a very, very good side with some extremely good players.

Identify the adverbs

1. very, good
2. very, extremely
3. good
4. extremely, good.

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'The year is 2015. The world appears to have a green tint to it. There are also some dead insects in the foreground'.

Which tense is used in these sentences?

1. past simple
2. present perfect
3. present simple
4. past continuous

'Look as the famous popstar zooms down the dirt track in an old Mini'.

Identify the adjectives. Do not use capital letters. Use a comma and a space if you list more than one adjective. Do not use a dot at the end.

She hasn't upgraded her handset since 1999.

Which tense is used here?

1. present perfect
2. present simple
3. past perfect
4. past perfect continuous

Sir David Attenborough is the narrator of this clip. He narrates his story in a rather particular way, like he is observing a predator in the wild. Why?

The passage suggests that it is inadvisable to _____

1. drink any tea, coffee or cocoa at all.
2. drink more than two cups of coffee a day.
3. start the day without a stimulant of some sort.
4. use any other stimulant but caffeine.

The passage points out that many people begin the day with two cups of coffee
_____.

1. even when they don’t feel sleepy.
2. because by doing so they soon feel wide awake.
3. because there is less caffeine in coffee than in tea.
4. because alcohol is more harmful.

Caffeine and other similar stimulants _____.

1. can produce certain unpleasant side effects, if large doses are taken.
2. are completely harmless.
3. actually never lead to improved work efficiency.
4. always have a negative effect upon people.

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