Reading - Prepare and predict

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Prepare and predict

Schedule

• Timelines (10 minute
• Exercises (5 minutes)
• Prepare and predict (10 minutes)
• Read the text (15 minutes)
• Game: fake or real (15 minutes)
• End of the lesson (5 minutes)

At the end of this lesson...

...I know the five steps of preparing and predicting

...I am ready for the test next week 

Answer the questions

Translate this word to Dutch:

Fake

1. Fakkel
2. Feeks
3. Normaal
4. Nep

Fake News

Fake news is news which appears to be real but isn't.

You can find a lot of fake news online. 

We're going to answer a few questions.

You will see headlines 

Are they real or fake?

appears to be       lijkt te zijn

real                          werkelijkheid/echt

Mark Rutte was attacked and killed by a bear

1. Fake
2. Real

German street covered in chocolate after leak from chocolate factory

1. Fake
2. Real

NASA is installing internet on the moon

1. Fake
2. Real

Elderly woman accused (beschuldigd) of training her 65 cats to steal from neighbours

1. Fake
2. Real

Fake News

"Elderly woman accused of training her 65 cats to steal from neighbours"

This news was fake.

It still got more than 690.000 likes/shares on social media of people who thought it was real. 

For real?

For real?
is the title of the text that we're going to read. It is about fake news.  

Let's look at the difficult words you may find in the text.

A study says that students are easily fooled by fake news online.

Most of the students “really struggled,” he said <...> Breakstone said that students found it difficult to spot fake news stories.

Hidden ads are another kind of fake news

worstelde

Verborgen

Advertenties

voor de gek houden

Prepare and predict

Before you start to read you need to prepare and predict.

This is what you do: 

• 1. Look at the pictures.
• 2. Read the title.
• 3. Read the introduction
• 4. Read the first and last line of the paragraph
• 5. Ask yourself: what is this text about?  
  

Prepare       voorbereiden

Predict        voorspellen

What is the text about?

Read the title and first paragraph. Then, answer the question in the next slide.

For Real?

A study says that students are easily fooled by fake news online.

What do you think the text is about?
You can answer in Dutch

Read the text

Teacher will give you the text.

You have 15 minutes to read the text and to answer the questions

Done?

Start on the game (exercise 2)

Keep LessonUp open.

Answers

1. B

2. B

3. A
 

4. 

Paragraph 6:

Readers could tell because it had a blue check mark next to the name

Paragraph 9:

They usually say they are “Sponsored Content.” 

Game: fake or real?

Read exercise 2

Pick a real headline (in English),

Look online.

Make up a fake headline (in English)

Can your classmates guess which is real and which is fake?

What are the 5 steps of preparing and predicting?

1. 

2.

3.

4.

5.

Look at the picture(s)

Read the title

Read the introduction

Read the first and last line of each paragraph

Predict