Friday week 23 VWO Reading + listening skills

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome to English class!

Welcome 

class V2A

Today's goals: 

- Watching and listening skills practice: the news

- Reading skills practice: Mavo + Havo exam texts.

How can watching the news help you with your reading and listening skills?

The news: do you know what's going on in the world at the moment?

www.bbc.co.uk

Question coming up:

What happened to the teenagers?

What happened to the teenagers?

1. Nothing, they went home after a laugh
2. Police are investigating them for illegal trespassing
3. They accidentally got lost in the IKEA store and needed help
4. Security threw them out after a social media challenge

Background knowledge for reading:
what's a synonym?

To do:

1. Make groups of four and discuss the questions + text in the next slides. 

2. Answer the questions together. You have to agree on the answer. 

3. The group who sends in the CORRECT answer FIRST, wins.

1 great palaces of ceramics and brass

2 horse-troughs

3 municipal monuments

4 surly publicans

Two of the descriptions above are used in the text as a synonym for

“public lavatory” (line 2).

Question 1: Which two are they?

A 1 and 2

B 1 and 3

C 1 and 4

D 2 and 3

E 2 and 4

F 3 and 4

Question 2 

Which of the following fits the gap in the text?

A glory

B profit

C relief

D solitude

Two of the descriptions are used in the text as a synonym for
“public lavatory” (line 2).
Which two are they? Type A, B, C, D, E or F.

Question 2
Which of the following fits the gap in the text?

1. glory
2. profit
3. relief
4. solitude

What's Chernobyl?

Work with your group of four again:

Question 3

 How does paragraph 2 relate to paragraph 1?

A It clarifies what is said in paragraph 1.

B It contradicts what is said in paragraph 1.

C It expands on what is said in paragraph 1.

D It illustrates what is said in paragraph 1.

E It supports what is said in paragraph 1. 

Question 3: How does paragraph 2 relate to paragraph 1? Type A, B, C, D or E

Questions?

Finish your PO and hand it in!

Class rules when working on your PO:

- You work, that's it. 

- You stay in your seat: no walking around, etc.

- Don't eat or Class rules when working on your PO:drink. It's not a picnic.

- No noise: it's not a film/music/gaming/comedy session.

- Keep the classroom clean: don't throw stuff around.

THESE ARE ALL BASIC RULES. MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW THEM.