reading a2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

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Exercise 1:

A1: student's own answer

A2: the text is about the British princess Diana

B1: student´s own answer. 

B2: student´s own answer. 

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Exercise 2:

A1: Dthe text is about Princess Diana and why she was called “The People’s Princess”.

A2: she really listened to the people she talked to.

A3 they where afraid to get sick / they did not know how to get aids

A4 Princess Diana struggled with depression and a bad marridge.

A5 because of the important work she did

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B1 sickness

B:2

A. true

B. false

Prince Charles en Princess Diana divorced after eleven years of marridge

C. false

Prinses Diana’s populariteit is not the only reason why she was called  “The People’s Princess”.

B3 students own answer 

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Exercise 3A:

Woord                                   Omschrijving                          Vertaling

popular (r.4)                                liked                                   populair

understand (r.16)                know why or how                      begrijpen

different (r.18)                        not the same                  verschillend, anders

decided (r.19)                             chose                                  besloot

especially (r.29)                          mostly                                   vooral

followed (r.37)                         went after                                 volgde

remembered (r.42)                 not forgotten                          herinnerd

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3B

Those twins don’t look like each other, in fact they look quite different

Instead of taking the same path to school, today I took a different one.

She decided to become an astronaut.

The lovers decided to get married.

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3B

My grandmother always says I’m too young to understand what they’re talking about.

I don’t understand them. They speak another language.

Everyone wanted to talk to her, she was very popular.

When you’re not popular, people won’t vote for you.

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