Text 17 + 18

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• Leerjaar 3

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  LESSON GOAL: 

       You can recognize main ideas in texts.

  LESSON PLAN:

      

•  Announcements
•  Compare hooks to main ideas in Text 17 + 18
•  Look at what main ideas are
•  Identify main ideas in Text 18

Why? To help you understand texts quickly and correctly.

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HOOKS 

Which sentence do you think is the hook for opening paragraph in Text 17 (Why do you think so?)

1. Fashion is fundamentally visual, so how do the blind choose their clothes?
2. Of the one million visually impaired persons (VIPs) in Britain, 72 per cent are women.
3. Many of these are denied the option of a casual browse around the shops on a Saturday afternoon.
4. Most will rely on a sighted friend or relative, and while many sighted women prefer to shop for clothes...

Which sentence(s) do you think is/are the hook for the opening paragraph in Text 18? (Why do you think so?)

1. Norman is rather sniffy about the £9,000 grand piano in his shop window.
2. It's only six years old and Norman does not really approve of pianos made in the past 40 years.
3. Norman's shop is in Islington, North London, and he's one of Britain's leading piano restorers.
4. He is also a Zulu who grew up in poverty on the outskirts of Durban in South Africa.

Every paragraph has to have one main idea.

(Een alinea is een verzameling zinnen die allemaal verband                 houden met één bepaald onderwerp)

main idea = sentence  

                                   sentence (idea)

The other sentences are connected to this one main idea.

MAIN IDEA

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Which sentence from the opening paragraph in Text 17 do you think gives the main idea? (Why do you think so?)

1. Fashion is fundamentally visual, so how do the blind choose their clothes?
2. Of the one million visually impaired persons (VIPs) in Britain, 72 per cent are women.
3. Many of these are denied the option of a casual browse around the shops on a Saturday afternoon.
4. Most will rely on a sighted friend or relative, and while many sighted women prefer to shop for clothes...

-Inadequate labelling is the biggest cause of complaint among VIPs.
-Prices are often in such small print that even those who have partial vision
cannot read them.
-Washing instructions are usually tucked away in a side seam, impossibly
small, and sizes are often not marked clearly.
-I was told of VIPs being questioned rudely in shops by security guards
because they held clothes to their eyes or took them to a window to try...

1. The main idea is in the first sentence.
2. The main idea is in the second sentence.
3. The main idea is in the third sentence.
4. The main idea is in the fourth sentence.

-Buying clothes is only the beginning.
-The real challenge is to know what is in the wardrobe and what goes
together.
-VIPS are, of necessity, much tidier than sighted people. Each object has its place and is easily found.
-There are many systems that individuals can use to determine what is what.

1. The main idea is in the first sentence.
2. The main idea is in the second sentence.
3. The main idea is in the third and fourth sentences.
4. The main idea is in the last sentence.

The main idea can be found in which sentence(s) in Text 18?
(Why do you think so?)

1. Norman is rather sniffy about the £9,000 grand piano in his shop window.
2. It's only six years old and Norman does not really approve of pianos made in the past 40 years.
3. Norman's shop is in Islington, North London, and he's one of Britain's leading piano restorers.
4. He is also a Zulu who grew up in poverty on the outskirts of Durban in South Africa.

1. What is paragraph 1 meant to make clear about Norman?

1. How much he knows about the history of pianos.
2. How much his life has changed for the better.
3. That he does not like old pianos very much.
4. That he is now a famous person in Britain.

6. -So I do not know how old he is (neither does he), nor when he came to
Britain, nor how he came to own the Islington Piano Galleries.
-But I do know that he was raised in strict Zulu tradition.
-'My aunt brought home a gramophone. I thought there were little people in
there so when she went off to work I took it apart....
-Being brought up a Zulu is like being locked up in a cage, it's very strict, very
dogmatic.'

1. The main idea is in the first sentence.
2. The main idea is in the second sentence.
3. The main idea is in the third sentence.
4. The main idea is in the fourth sentence.

6. What is the overall impression that Norman gives of his youth in paragraph 3?

1. He was often bored, which made him do silly things.
2. It was so unpleasant that he does not want to be reminded of it.
3. There was very little freedom for him.
4. The warmth of his family made up for the punishments he got.

     

   Find the main ideas of paragraphs 5, 7, 8 + 9

      so you can answer (or check your answers to) 

                      questions #8, #10, #12 + #13.

    Be able to explain your answer.

          Done? Find a Dutch definition for 'sniffy'. 

 Make your own sentence (in English) using 'sniffy'.

8. -He worked in Durban theatre for a man named Cecil
Hayter who later paid Norman's fare to England.
-'He was one of the most important people I have come
across - and he taught me everything about pianos.'
What does paragraph 5 make clear?

1. How Mr. Hayter helped Norman to become a piano restorer in England.
2. How Norman has always made his own decisions about life.
3. How Norman's life in South Africa contrasted with his life in England.

10. What is Norman's experience with racism in Britain?

1. He is not always allowed to enter a client's house.
2. He is often asked to show his papers to prove he is indeed a piano restorer.
3. He sometimes has to ask another piano repairer to come and help him.
4. People may at first find it difficult to accept that a black person is the boss.

-But on the whole England is full of clubs with signs outside which are not
written.
-You can embarrass yourself badly by walking into a place only to find out you
are not welcome.
-But it's all class really - nothing to do with race.'

12. What does Norman make clear in lines 42-22? In England...

1. it is not easy to find a good place to go out at night.
2. one is supposed to move only within one's own social group.
3. there is more racism than one would think at first sight.

13. -Last year Norman went back to South Africa for the first time in 23 years
and took Catherine and their three children.
-He says the whites' treatment of blacks has changed immensely.
-'In the old days I was hit by a white man just for walking on the pavement.
-Now my niece tells me she sometimes walks along the pavement and
deliberately bumps into a white person just to hear him say "I'm sorry".'

1. The main idea is in the first sentence.
2. The main idea is in the second sentence.
3. The main idea is in the third sentence.
4. The main idea is in the fourth sentence.

13. What is the story about Norman's niece meant to illustrate?

1. Black people in South Africa are no longer afraid of talking to white people.
2. Black people in South Africa are still hostile to white people.
3. White people in South Africa are now afraid of touching black people.
4. White people in South Africa now show respect to black people.

Finding the main idea and making summaries helps you understand the meaning of texts. 

Norman is a black man from South-Africa, who makes piano’s. He has a successful company in London, but has often dealt with racism, because of his color. When he grew up, everything was really strict. In londen people were often shocked that he was the boss of the famous and good company. As the years passed white people in London became more nice and respectful to tinted people. He also has a wife who is really supportive.

All great practice for reading test comprehension!

• He comes from South African
  
• Restores piano’s
  
• Sometimes gets comments about his skin color
  
• Catherine is his wife
  
• An important man for him is Cecil Hayter
  

What have you learned today?

Have a good weekend!

Which text would you like to cover in class on Monday next week?

Text 19

Text 20

Text 21

ANSWERS

TEXT 18 + Text 2

For an essay or article, the whole piece needs its own topic sentence. 

(For essays, this is called a thesis statement.)

It sums up the entire text.

It lets the reader know what they can expect to be told by reading the text.

Do you think the hook for text 17 is also the topic sentence for the entire text? Why or why not?

Do you think the hook for text 18 is also the topic sentence for the entire text? Why or why not?
(hint: look at ALL the text... )

Topic Sentence

Conclusion - 

can loosely sum up the text

can introduce a new idea

let off the hook

-Michelle Osbourne, 30, a remedial therapist, runs her own health therapy
clinic at Copthall Stadium, Hendon, north London, and specialises in sports
injuries.
-Her appearance gives no clue to her visual disability.
-She relies on her sister Jenny, 25, for clothes advice, and while she is able to
buy basics, such as leggings, on her own, she values Jenny for a second
opinion for most purchases.

1. The main idea is in the first sentence.
2. The main idea is in the second sentence.
3. The main idea is in the third sentence.
4. The main idea is not in a sentence .