Periode 3-Week 5

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

• Planning
• Punctuation + Spelling
• Running Dictation
• Writing: exercise 2

• Exam *

Planning

24 maart: leesvaardigheid/ schrijfvaardigheid 

31 maart: schrijfvaardigheid

7 april: schrijfvaardigheid

14 april: examen schrijfvaardigheid

Na de meivakantie: herkansingen examens.

Punctuation

.          full stop / period          

,          comma                             

?         question mark             

!          exclamation mark      

:          colon

'         apostrophe

Spelling 

• Always check your spelling!  
• Capital letters
• Phonetic spelling:              their - there - they're 
  
• Possessive or plural:        pony - ponies 

                                                                               the pony's owner

                                                            cat   -  cats

                                                                               the cat's whiskers 

                                                       

Be a grammar shark!

• The kitchen is over their.
• Your a grammar shark?
• There are many chair's in the classroom.

Running Dictation - Goals

• You can remember words and phrases and dictate them.
• You can write down words and phrases using correct spelling and punctuation.

Running Dictation

• Work in pairs. 
• One student walks to the wall to read the text.
• Remember some of the text  and walk back to your partner. 
• Quietly dictate what you remembered to your partner, who writes it down. 
• Swap roles after every sentence.
• The winning pair is the team that finishes first , without mistakes!

Spelling: capital letters

Punctuation: full stops, commas,  apostrophes, question marks.

Retail therapy

Retail therapy, or shopping with the primary purpose of improving the buyer’s mood is a myth, right? Well, no actually. A recent study has found that shopping can actually be an effective way of decreasing feelings of sadness.

Researchers in the UK asked shoppers on their way into a shopping centre to describe how they were feeling. They then measured their mood level again after they had been shopping. Those who had been in a bad mood before they went in were found to have raised their mood level by buying something to cheer themselves up.

The research was funded by business owners, who wanted to know if their store design was appropriate. They are pleased with the results, and are thinking about inviting the researchers to repeat the research in other locations.

Retail therapy

• What is retail therapy?
• Does retail therapy work for you?
• What are potential benefits and drawbacks of retail therapy?

Reading Strategy: Skimming

If you want to get a general idea of what a text is about, you can skim it.

When you skim, you:

-read the title and / or heading(s);

-look at the pictures and words in bold, italics or colour;

-read the first and last lines of the text (or paragraph).

So: skimming means that you read a text very quickly. You don’t read every word.

Reading Strategy: Scanning

If you need to find specific information, like numbers, names or dates, you can scan a text.

1. Read the question.

2. Select  key words from the question.

3. Scan the text, look for the key words in the text.

4. Read the text surrounding the key words carefully.

5. Answer the question.