Week 43: finish unit 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Lesson 1: Finish Unit 2

Program 21/10

1. Welcome!

2. Reading: Sherlock Holmes

3. §2D 

4. Presentations!

Lesson goal: you can distinguish between present simple and present continuous.

Sherlock Holmes

- Arthur Conan Doyle

- He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887

Read: A Scandal in Bohemia

Do the questions on page 44

Contrast

Read the explanation boxes from §2D (page 22 SB)

Do ex. 2, 3 (SB page 22)

WB: page 23

Ex. 1, 2, 3

Go to page 23, SB

Read ex. 3

Do ex. 2 + 6

SEATING CHART SEPT 2025

Cansu

Lesson 2: Finish Unit 2

Program lesson 2

1. Welcome!

2. Reading: Lost at Sea

3. Overview Unit Test T3: 1 + 2

4. Contrast Present Simple and Past Continuous

5. Presentations and house points

Lesson goal: you can distinguish between present simple and present continuous.

Lost at Sea

Go to page 24-25 SB

Together 1 + 2

Read the text and do ex. 4, 5, 6

Contrast

Read the explanation boxes from §2D (page 22 SB)

Do ex. 2, 3 (SB page 22)

WB: page 23

Ex. 1, 2, 3

What's not finished is homework

Lesson 2: Finish Unit 2

Program lesson 2

1. Welcome!

2. What to study

3. Mock Test

4. Reading

Unit Test 1+2 on Oct. 31st

Unit 1: 

- Feelings

- Past Simple

- Adjective endings

- Vocab list

Unit 2: Past Continuous

- Landscapes 

- Past continuous

- Key words

- Contrast past simple/past continuous

- Word building

- Vocab list

How to study?

- Prepare: Know what you need to study!

- Vocabulary: Flash cards, copy words

- Grammar: copy in notebook, summarize, do excercises

- Say it out loud! Study the verbs and write them down fully

- Study daily 10-15 minutes

- Repeat, repeat, repeat!

SEATING CHART SEPT 2025

Cansu

Lesson 3: Revision Unit I & 1

Program

1. Welcome!

2. Mock Test

3. Listening

During the holiday: Study for unit test

Practice using the review in your WB -> answers on Teams

Mock Test

- Move tables apart

- Do the test

- Finished? Read Sherlock Holmes

Grammar  assessment

^{Solutions unit I + 1 unit 1}  

Present simple / present continuous

We use present simple for things we do regularly, all the time or never.

We use present continuous for things that are happening now or in the near future.

Explain the difference between
I play football and I'm playing football

Present simple OR present continuous

SIMPLE

^{I work every day}

^{She never eats pizza}

^{Do you read often?}

^{They don't ever play tennis.}

CONTINUOUS

^{I am working today}

^{She is eating pizza right now}

^{Are you reading a book at the moment?}

^{They are not playing tennis now.}

Which sentence is in the present simple tense?

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D none of these

In which sentence is present continuous tense used?

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D none of these

A, An  indefinite (don't know which one)

A book or a chair - begin with b and c (consonants)

An egg or an elephant - begin with vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

• Exceptions - a university (you sound), an hour (our sound)
• Use a or an when we talk about something for the first time 
• Use a or an when we talk about someone's job

The - definite (know which one)

The boy sitting next to me is very tall (we know which boy)

• Use the when we talk about the same thing for the 2nd time

• Use the for names and places, where there is only one!

Tokyo is .......... capital of Japan

1. a
2. an
3. the
4. D none of these

I would like to have ....... chocolate ice-cream please

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. D none of these

My mother is ..... airline pilot for KLM

1. the
2. a
3. an
4. D none of these

Past simple affirmative (+)

• Add ed to the base word for regular verbs

Example: Yesterday I walked to school

• All the irregular verbs have to be learned

Example: Yesterday I went to the cinema

• Time -  yesterday, last week, last year etc.
  

Which of the following is past simple regular?

1. left
2. swam
3. cycled
4. D none of these

Which of the following is past simple irregular?

1. walked
2. jumped
3. ran
4. D none of these

Past simple negative (-)

• Add didn't before the base verb

Example: I didn't walk to school yesterday

• Irregular verbs also stay in the base form!

Example: Yesterday we didn't go to the cinema

• Time -  yesterday, last week, last year etc.
  

Write a short sentence of 6 to 8 words using the negative past simple of cycle

Write a short sentence of 6 to 8 words using the negative past simple of leave

Past simple interrogative (?)

• Add did and pronoun before the base verb

Example: Did she walk to school yesterday?

• Irregular verbs also stay in the base form!

Example: Did they go to the  beach yesterday?

• Time -  yesterday, last week, last year etc.
  

Write a sentence of 6 to 8 words using the interrogative past simple of talk

Write a sentence of 6 to 8 words using the interrogative past simple of swim