Vocabulary unit 7

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Programme

• Please say 'present'
• We have done the grammar of unit 7 
• Today: vocabulary

Information

I was slightly too strict on your last unit test (u3+4)so I will change those grades from 65 % should be correct for a 6.0 to 60 % should be correct for a 6.0

After the May holiday I want to test units 5 + 6, I'll let you know when

Taste, perception,
observation (7A)

Universally accepted

Utterly repulsive

Somewhat difficult

Fairly tasteless

Exceptionally careful

Widely available

Entirely convinced

Highly beneficial

Possible to get

Not very easy

Full of extreme care

Without much taste

Very good for you 

Generally believed

Very unpleasant

Completely certain

Discussion Questions

Have you ever been camping or slept outdoors? If so, where did you go? Who did you go with? 

What noises can you hear when you are outdoors? 

What kinds of smells do you notice? 

Noises

crickets

frogs

(night)birds

swamp sounds

rain

wind

Smells

Campfire

Pine needles

Sand

Rain, storm

Tent nylon

Fresh cut grass

Before we read

Weary = very tired

Foliage 

Frantic(ally) = behaving in a wild way

Ants

Cautious(ly) = very careful

Nail clippers

Timid = shy

Merciless = cruel/severe

Miner's lamp

SB

Open your SB on p. 88

I will read the text

You listen and write down the answers to exercise 4

After that we discuss the answers

Exercise 5

Homework for Thursday 7 May @ 2pm

Write a 200-word paragraph from the perspective of one of those miners and the day they broke through the last section of the Gotthard tunnel. 

• First person perspective
• Use the image
• Use the following words and phrases correctly and in the right form: 

detect, view, consider, dinstinguish, somewhat difficult, utterly repulsive, universally accepted, exceptionally careful, entirely convinced , peer, blink 

+ at least

1 reported statement, 1 reported question, 1 reported command