Havo 4 - Unit 16

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

unit 16

eat to live

Lesson 1+2

ex 1

Write down a list of everything you ate yesterday.

Compare your list with your partner.

What did you eat
yesterday?

ex 2

What do people eat in....

Japan                        Alaska                        California

What do people eat
in Japan?

What do people eat
in Alaska?

What do people eat
in California?

do ex 3 listening

cd 2 nr 12

reading exercise 5

This is a useful exercise to practise for the reading test and your exam. Texts like this one can also be in the havo exam!

tip: take a close look at the information before and after the gap. underline key words in the sentences, which will help you determine which is the right one.

vocabulary

canned = ingeblikt                                                weak = slap

dairy = zuivel                                                            juicy = sappig

bitter = bitter                                                            bad = slecht / niet goed meer

rich = machtig

rotten = rot

go off = niet goed meer zijn

tough = taai

strong = sterk

ripe = rijp

mild = mild

Make sure you know these words on the test!!!

Ex. 7 

p. 105

On the next few LessonUp pages 

a. Silvio's on a diet - he has to give up all ... foods for a month.

1. bitter
2. rich

b. When I opened the fridge, I realised the milk had gone ... .

1. rotten
2. off

c. The meat that the local supermarket sells is often ... .

1. tough
2. rich

d. I always buy yellow lemons because I know they are ... .

1. strong
2. ripe

e. I like curry, as long as it tastes quite ... .

1. mild
2. weak

f. The last apple in the bowl had to be thrown away because it was ... .

1. juicy
2. rotten

g. The coffee in the café was a bit ... for my taste, with too much milk in it.

1. bad
2. weak

h. When I opened the pack of meat, I realised from the smell that it had gone ... .

1. bitter
2. bad

Lesson 2

The article

Possession

the indefinite article

a is used before a consonant-sound

an is used before a vowel-sound

a / an

• When you talk about things in general
• is used for jobs

the definite article : the

is used:

• when something has been mentioned before
• when something is common knowledge
• when there is only one
• with buildings
• with rivers, seas, oceans, mountains, regions, national groups and countrieswhich are groups of states
• with species
• with superlatives
• with musical instruments
• when talking about something specific

no article

is used:

• with most streets ( the High Street) , countries, single mountains
• when talking about sports
• when a noun is used generally
• with illnesses

expressions

go to prison  (building: the, use: X)

go to hospital

go to church

go to bed                                          go to work

have lunch, dinner etc.               in October etc.

go on holiday                                   to hold office

Let's meet in front of the hospital.

The patient was taken to hospital.

do ex 1-4 + corpus spot

Tip: exercises 3 and 4 are representative of the exercise in the test!

possession

If people possess something: 's / s'

If things possess things: of

's / s'

The girl's bike.

the girls' bikes.

the man's bike.

the men's bikes.

's / s'

time

a month's holiday

a three hours' journey

distance

a ten miles' drive

of

objects                                                       container

the door of the house                         a bottle of milk

the cover of the book                         a box of chocolates

position                                                    

the back of the room

nouns describing nouns

a pear tree

a coffee cup

a shopwindow

do ex 5