to or too

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

English today

Agenda

News

Grammar: to / too

Learnbeat assignment

Story game

News: CNN10

Every lesson we will begin with watching 10 minute news and discussing what you saw afterwards. This will help with your listening practice (which is a part of the test in test week 2)

Grammar: to or too

what do you already know?

To (met één o)

To is een voorzetsel. Het betekent naar, aan, tot, van of (om) te (voorafgaand aan een werkwoord):

• I am going to Canada this winter. Ik ga naar Canada deze winter.
  
• Can you give this shirt to William please? Kan je dit shirt aan William geven?
  
• Up to this point I never asked myself why. Tot dit punt heb ik mezelf nooit afgevraagd waarom.
  
• This is the key to the basement, keep it in a safe spot. Dit is de sleutel van de kelder, bewaar hem op een veilige plek.
  

I am very sorry sir, but the waiter already asked you to leave. Het spijt me enorm meneer, maar de ober heeft u al gevraagd om weg te gaan.

Too (met twee o's)

Too betekent ook of te(veel):

 

•  You are very good at playing drums, but Karl is a good drummer too! Jij bent erg goed in drummen, maar Karl is ook een goede drummer!
  
• The policeman pulled me off the road, because I was driving too fast. The politieagent haalde me van de weg, omdat ik te snel reed.
  

I want _______ go _______ the beach today

1. too / too
2. to / to
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4. too / to

She tried _______ finish the project on time, but it was _______ complicated

1. too / to
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3. to / too
4. too / too

They had _______ leave early because the music was _______ loud _______ concentrate on their work.

1. to / too / to
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4. too / too / to

He went _______ the store _______ buy groceries, but he realized the prices were _______ high _______ pay for everything he needed.

1. too / to / too / to
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4. to / to / to / to

To do!

Go to LearnBeat and do assignment 9.2 B + C

9.2 D will be homework!

Story activity

You are going to be shown a few different things (creatures, places, items). You need to create a story in which you use all of the items shown and have a clear storyline. Afterwords we will look if it matches up to a real story where the items were taken from.

Item 1:

octopus 

Item 1:

shark

Item 3:

robot spy octopus 

Items 4 + 5:

coconut shell and bamboo pipe

Place

the ocean

What kind of story can you make using these items?

Now compare your story to the real one. Were you close?