1 kgt Unit 1: Reading

• Engels
• ISK

UNIT 1 Friends

Lesson 1: Reading 

Lesson Objectives:

• Learn strategies for learning vocabulary
• Practice skimming a text
• Learn how to ask questions correctly.

Vocabulary 1.1 

• often – vaak 🔄
• wear – dragen 👕
• like – leuk vinden ❤️
• joke – grapje 😂
• the same – hetzelfde ➡️
• cap – pet 🧢
• straight – steil ➖
• glasses – bril 👓

• baking – bakken 🍰
• cook – kok 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳
• quiet – stil, rustig 🤫
• everything – alles 🌍
• story – verhaal 📚
• twins – tweeling 👯
• clever – slim 🧠

Task:

Write three sentences using words from Vocabulary 1.1.

Tips:

• Start with a capital letter.
• End with punctuation.
• Always write I with a capital letter.

Find out: Words 3.1 samen lezen

Vocabulary Learning Strategies

• Cover the Dutch words.
• Write down the English words you don’t know.
• Do the same with the English words.
• Focus only on the words you don’t know!

Task:

Look at the vocabulary list:

Which words do you know? 

Which ones do you have to learn?

Use te given technique and learn them!

Find out: Words 3.1 samen lezen

What does glasses mean?

1. pet
2. bril
3. geschiedenis

What does often mean?

1. vaak
2. slim
3. rijk

Skimming a Text

What is skimming?

• Look at the title, headings, and pictures.
• Focus on keywords, names, and numbers.
• This helps you quickly understand what the text is about.

Task:

Look at the vocabulary list:

Which words do you know? 

Which ones do you have to learn?

Use te given technique and learn them!

Find out: Words 3.1 samen lezen

Asking Questions

When talking to a teacher, use Mr or Mrs instead of their first name.

For example: Mr Brown, can you help me?

With a classmate, you can be more informal: Hey Sarah, do you have a pen?

Task:

Write two questions: 

one for your teacher and one for a classmate.

Find out: Words 3.1 samen lezen

What is the correct way to ask a teacher a question?

1. Hey dude, help me!
2. Mrs Goodison, can you help me?
3. Yo, give me the answer.

Today:

(p.9 t/m 15)

• Assignments 4 to 9
• Finished? Check your work!
• Do the assignments in Get ahead online.

Find out: Words 3.1 samen lezen

What did you learn about asking questions?

How do you skim a text?

Homework

Learn:

Grammar: p. 131

Vocabulary 1.1: p. 134