1P3L5 Reading Informative texts

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English Reading

13 March 2025

Good Samaritan Day

Someone who helps out another person, doing a good deed for someone without expecting something in return.

What good deed did you do in the past weeks and how did it make you feel?

Popcorn lover's day

What is your favourite snack and why?

11 March 2020

The World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic.

What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

What pandemics did we
encounter since 1850?

Pandemics

pan                     Disease                   Years                  Death toll           

3rd plague      Bubonic plague   1855-1960       12-15 million      

Spanish flu     Influenza                1918-1920        17-100 million    

HIV/AIDS          HIV                             1981- now        43 million           

COVID-19         COVID-19                 2020- now      7-35 million       

Today's lesson 

Attendance

Today's goals

Warm-up

Present and past continuous

Reading

Work on your homework

Today's goals

At the end of this lesson you will be able and have practised to read correspondence.

Carnaval

How was your 'Carnaval break'? 

Break up in groups of 2/3 and tell each

other what you did, how you were 

dressed and with whom you were

partying.

Wat is de present continuous?

Present continuous

to be + verb + -ing

I am working

We are dancing 

Use: something happening at moment of speaking/writing

Signal words: right now, always, today, this week, ...

Present continuous

Negative sentences: 'not' achter am/is/are

I am not crying / I'm not crying

We are not cheating / We're not cheating

Questions: am/is/are + subject + verb + -ing

Am I being loud?

Are they shouting?

The wind ...... (to blow).

1. blows
2. are blowing
3. is blowing
4. was blowing

They ... always ... (to argue + not)

1. are / argue
2. are / arguing
3. were / arguing
4. argue

... she ... well? (to feel)

1. Are / feeling
2. Is / feels
3. feels
4. Is / feeling

Past continuous?

Past continuous 

to be + verb + -ing

I was working when they arrived

We were talking in the kitchen when the phone rang.

Use: something was going on in the past (in the middle of something) 

Past continuous 

Negative sentences: 'not' achter was/were

I was not crying / I wasn't crying

We were not cheating / We weren't cheating

Questions: was/were + subject + verb + -ing

Was I being loud?

Were they shouting?

The boys ... (to study) when the bell rang.

1. are studying
2. was studying
3. were studying
4. were studieing

Lisa ... (to sleep + not). I checked.

1. wasn't sleeping
2. is not sleeping
3. doesn't sleep
4. weren't sleeping

James .... .... when grandmother entered the kitchen (to eat).

1. is eating
2. was eating
3. were eating

Present and past continuous 

mixed up.

We ... ..... verbs at the moment (to practice).

1. is practising
2. were practising
3. are practising

I ... .... earrings yesterday (to wear + not).

1. am not wearing
2. was not wearing
3. is wearing not
4. am wearing not

She ... ... ... high heels today. She sprained her ankle last week. (not/to wear)

1. was not wearing
2. was wearing not
3. wears not
4. is not wearing

... ... ... 'Carnaval' last week?
(you/to celebrate)

1. was you celebrating
2. you are celebrating
3. were you celebrating
4. you is celebrating

What type of letters/emails
can you name?

Formal

Informal

Correspondence - aim

Aim of the letter

Informal: in first paragraph

Formal: subject

                 in first paragraph

Correspondence - structure

introduction (inleiding)

waarom deze brief

body (kern)

boodschap

conclusion (conclusie)

samenvatting, voorstel

Vocabulary

Informative texts

Practise

Reading informative texts

Practise reading informative texts

Google: test-english reading                              reading B1  

reading A2   It's in the news                                 Home of the future

Homework

Reading A2 and B1: 3.1 + 3.2

All: Grammar A2 ch 3

See you next week!!!

14 March

Pi-Day

Pi = 3.14

Date = 3/14

March 1991

The 'Birmingham Six' were released from jail after 16 years when their convictions for the murder of 21 people in two pub bombings were annulled by the Court of Appeal. 

The Birmingham Six received around 1 million pounds each in compensation in 2001.

Adelaide Cup Day

One of the most vibrant and anticipated sports events in the south of Australia. Besides a sports event it is also a major social event, people dress up and there is good food and live music.

What is the top 3 sports in USA, Australia and UK?

National Sports

USA                                    Australia                              UK                                   

American Football      (Australian) Football      Football

Basketball                       Cricket                                 Cricket

Baseball                           Rugby                                   Rugby 

Canberra Day

10 March

This day celebrates the official naming of the capital of Australia in 1913.

The celebrations start with a hot air balloon race.

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Warm-up

Please, answer the question.