#2 30 min why learn English? Vocab 'that's me' lesson 2 BS les

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Please put your nametag on your desk so I can read your names. 

Today's class

• introduction & vocabulary
• Why learn English anyway? 

Who am I? 

Hello!

My name is Dorien Kruit-Meulendijks

I am  39 years old.

I live in Cuijk

I have two brothers and no sisters.

I have 2 cats. 

My hobbies are singing. 

Music and books are important to me. 

Nice to meet you! 

Words 

Words are your gold when learning a language.

The more words you learn, the better you will understand and speak the language. 

Word to learn

• Stick the words in your English notebook with glue.
• Grab two coloured pencils (green and yellow are best)
• Check the words and their meaning. 
• --> Do you already know the word (and the English spelling!), colour the dot green. 
• --> Is the word new to you or are you not sure about it yet, colour it yellow.

Why learn English? 

Any ideas? 

Think/Pair/Share

- Think alone for a moment.

- Team up with your neighbour and discuss your ideas

- Share your ideas with the whole class. 

English is everywhere! 

You can find English in commercials and in the streets, you hear it in songs and on TV and in films, lots of books and texts are printed in English, many computer games use English and English is the international language of business and the internet. So, it's pretty useful to know English! 

Have a guess.

How many people in the world speak English (approximately)? 

Uncountable! 

Estimates range from 470 million (=miljoen)

to over 1 billion (= miljard!)!

(the total population is +/- 8 billion) 

 

There are 195 countries in the world, in 138 of them English is spoken. 

So, wherever you plan to go, you can probably use English! 

Let's practise! 

Sometimes, you want to describe someone (because you lost the person on a busy festival, or you want to describe your perfect boyfriend or girlfriend or you forgot someone's name and want to describe him or her). 

Look at the handout for example sentences.

Any questions? 

Look at the picture.

Who is described?

Raise your hand if you know! 

Now work together.

In turns, describe someone on the picture. The other one guesses who you are describing.

Good luck! 

T

Time is up!

Thank you for your attention!