H5 poem 'My son the man', Alquin, grammar recap,

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome to your lesson 

Today's class

• A poem - My Son the Man
• Alquin check answers & discuss text
•  Grammar final check-up

What do you know about...
HOUDINI!

So...

Harry Houdini was an escape-artist. 

He could not be bound, handcuffed, chained,

 he always broke free. 

That is the theme of the next poem. 

Let's read the poem

While reading, figure out:

- What is the poem about?

- Who is the 'speaker' in the poem? 

- What is the rhyme scheme? (If any)

- What does Harry Houdini have to do with it? 

What is your first response to the poem?

😒🙁😐🙂😃

Let's dig into this poem! 

- What is the poem about?

- Who is the 'speaker' in the poem?

- What is the rhyme scheme? (If any)

- What does Harry Houdini have to do with it?

Do you sometimes feel chained/manacled/ pressed down by your parents' plans/ ideas/ ideals for your future? (Can you empathise with this poem? )

Oh yes! I feel this constantly!

I kind of recognise this.

Not so much

Definitely not, this has nothing to do with me.

Alquin! 

Let's move on to the Thwaites-glacier! 

How well did you understand the article? (It is, after all, a rather technical story)

Totally understood it!

Understood enough.

Kind of understood it.

Had trouble understanding

Didn't understand much of it.

No idea, haven't read it.

Check the answers in H

Go to its learning, find the answerbook as PDF, check your own answers. The more carefully you do this, the better you will understand the article ánd these kinds of multiple choice questions. 

Take ten minutes for this.

(Didn't do the work? Do it now!) 

Grammar final checkup

Choose!

Take part & pay attention (conditionals levels recap, discuss worksheet, combining sentences), or choose to do something else (read your book, study vocab)

How well do you know the rules for the 4 conditionals levels?

0100

What are the rules? 

	if gedeelte	andere deel
0	present simple	present simple
1	present simple	will + hele ww
2	past simple	would + hele ww
3	past perfect (had + volt. deelw.)	would have + volt.deelw.

The worksheet

1 You can borrow my pen if you do not have/ haven’t got (not + have) one yourself.​

2 You will feel sick if you eat (eat) all that candy!​

3 If you read this book, you will cry (cry) when you find out the end.​

4 You would like this series if you watched (watch) them.​

5 If I explained this again you would understand (understand). ​

6 If you go outside now, you will get (get) a cold.​

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the worksheet

7 Had you known this before, you wouldn’t have gone (go) there, would you?​

8 If she hadn’t made all those mistakes, she wouldn’t have found (not + find) a new formula for the medicine.​

9 I’m so allergic to peanuts. If I eat a peanut I go (go) into an anaphylactic shock right away. ​

10 You would know the new Corona measures if you watched (watch) the news yesterday.​

11 Will you join the meeting if that terrible co-worker is (to be) there?​

12If it weren’t (not + to be) for you, I really wouldn’t know what to do! ​

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I have mastered the conditionals!

YES!

kind of

nope

Put these together:
I drank a cup of tea.
The cup of tea was too hot.

My English teacher is great!
My English teacher is 41 years old.

Fill in the gap.
I ... (think) about it if you hadn't messed the whole thing up!

If you already knew all the answers in the test, you ... (tell) me, wouldn't you?

I will ask her to leave if she ... (arrive) too late again.

What mark are you aiming for tomorrow?

That's it for today!

Good luck with your final grammar-test-preparations!

Bring your book to class tomorrow! (You will probably have time to read after the test).

Also bring your parents&children-reader.

See you tomorrow!