English in Mind and Listening Skills - H3P - 10 February 2020

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Today's Lesson

• Thoughts on Thursday
• Now you
  
• English: maar ik kan het niet
• Opportunity Assignment
  
• Assignment 8C
• Questions about Homework
• Present Passive and Past Passive
• CITO-Listening Skills
• Homework: English in Mind
  

Thoughts on Thursday

Tops:

• All of you had your books with you, and most of you had done your homework!
• I hardly had to warn any one of you during the lesson.
• Most of you were engaged and working on your tasks
• You asked questions! 
  
• Some of you let me know that you find English hard; that you don't understand how to learn the language.
  

Thoughts on Thursday

Tips:

• Not all of you had done your homework
• Quite a few of you had to come back in the 9th hour
• Some of you still have to come back this afternoon

Thoughts on Thursday

Tops:

• The ones that had to come back in the 9th hour patiently waited outside.
  
• By the 9th hour you'd done your homework!
• On top of that you worked hard in the 9th hour; you listened and asked questions. 
  

Now you

What are your thoughts on the situation?

• Hands

• One at a time

English: Maar ik kan het niet

De Engelse taal is voornamelijk te verbeteren door de vaardigheden te oefenen. Oftewel: zoveel mogelijk Engels lezen en luisteren. Bijvoorbeeld door een boek te kopen/halen en Engelse films met/zonder Engelse ondertiteling te kijken

English: Maar ik kan het niet

Something's wrong with this advice; what's wrong with it?

Show me hands

https:

English is more than a Tool

English is so much more than just a language; it's a gateway to your interests, feelings; the rest of the world (world language).
 

You can only learn the language if you care about the context in which it's spoken/written. You CANNOT learn English if you hate or dislike it. It's just impossible.

But you can change the way you feel about it. You can turn hate and dislike into interest and maybe even like; and then you can learn

Opportunity

                                    What makes life interesting for you? What are you passionate about?

Link your interest for music, sports, gaming, movies/TV-shows, books, or any other type of interest to English.

Read about these things or watch movies/TV-shows, YouTube videos/interviews or do something else that involves your interest and the English language (be CREATIVE). Make yourself WANT to know what's being said when you're working on this. Then report back to me. 

Bonus: work on this in favour of the English in Mind homework (learning for your tests and doing your English in Mind homework becomes your own responsibility in that case; I won't check your work at the start of the lesson but I will expect you to do it. If you don't and you fail your tests it's your own fault). I will continue to discuss the homework and English in Mind tasks in class, so you'll still benefit from the classes.

Opportunity: Rules

Those who choose to do this will show me your progress on a weekly basis (every Monday) you'll hand in a written report in English (150 words per week).  I will give you feedback and notes on these reports.

Failure to hand in these assignments will result in you being banned from the Opportunity assignment.

If I notice you're not taking these assignments seriously you'll also be banned from the Opportunity

Those who've been banned from Opportunity will just continue with the English In Mind assignments with the rest of the class.

What to write: In these weekly reports you'll describe how you've been working on English via your interests every week; and what new words and English constructions you've learned. Tell me how this has been useful for you; how did it make you want to know the English that was being spoken?

Finally,  you'll still be expected to participate in class outside of these assignment. This is a bonus Opportunity! A chance for you to really start learning English if you're struggling with English. This is not for a grade; you're doing this for you.

Assignment 8C

Page 43

Words like huge, fantastic and awful are sometimes called limit or extreme adjectives. Normally, extreme adjectives are not used with very. Instead we use adverbs such as really or absolutely: "It's absolutely awful", not: "It's very awful"

Most extreme adjectives have an equivalent adjective, a scale adjective, which can be modified with very and really

Assignment 8C

Page 43

Very (adjective) great (adjective) - something is missing (what about size?); very (adjective) great (adjective) degree  (noun)

Very (adjective this is not possible) boiling (verb)

Absolutely (adverb) good (adjective) --> formal/informal

Absolutely (adverb) hot (adjective) --> formal/informal

Assignment 8C

Page 43

Questions about Homework?

Present Passive and Past Passive

Grammar: 2A p. 47

What is a passive sentence?

How can you see if a sentence is passive?

Why does the passive exist?

Give an example of the present simple passive and the past simple passive (not the examples from the book; come up with one of your own)

Present Passive and Past Passive

Grammar: 2A p. 47

Step 1: Switch the subject and the object

Step 2: Use a form of to be + past participle

Step 3: use the preposition by to say who or what does the action, but only if this is important

My mom (subject) feeds the cat (object)

1. The cat feeds my mom

2. The cat is fed my mom

3. The cat is fed by my mom

Grammar: 2A p. 47

1. My mother feeds the cat

2. John fixes my car

3. Mary Poppins sings a song

4. Batman beats the Joker

5. Jimmy locks the door

6. The lady cleans the house

7. I play games

Present Passive and Past Passive

Grammar: 2A p. 47

Turn the following sentences into Present Simple Passive and Past Simple Passive sentences:

1. My mother feeds the cat:

The cat is fed by my mother - The cat was fed by my mother -

2. John fixes my car

My car is fixed by John - My car was fixed by John

3. Mary Poppins sings a song

A song is sung by Mary Poppins - A song was sung by Mary Poppins

4. Batman beats the Joker

The Joker is beaten by Batman - The Joker was beaten by Batman

5. Jimmy locks the door

The door is locked by Jimmy - The door was locked by Jimmy

6.  The lady cleans the house

The house is cleaned by the lady - The house was cleaned by the lady

7. I play games

Games are played by me - Games were played by me 

CITO-Listening Skills

How to listen effectively

Pre-listening:

• What is the topic of the audio recording you're listening to? How do you know this?
  
  
• What is the title of the recording? What does this tell you about the topic?
  
  
• Read the first question before listening to the recording.
  
  
• What are your expectations?

CITO-Listening Skills

How to listen effectively

During Listening

• ALWAYS read the question before the next part of the audio-recording.
  
• This way you'll be prepared and you'll know what to listen out for.
  
  
• Write down/underline keywords from the question
  

For example, here's a question about an audio-recording that discusses climate change:

1. Wat is een van grootste oorzaken van klimaatverandering?

What will you be focussing on? What do you expect to hear?
Focus on those words in the audio-recording that match words that appear in the question. In other words, focus on KEYWORDS

CITO-Listening Skills

How to listen effectively

Post-listening

• After a practice exam you're allowed to ask the teacher questions.

• Were there things you didn't understand.

• Why was your answer incorrect?

• What types of problems did you run into while we were listening to the recording?

Homework:

English in Mind

4a, 4b

5a, 5b

Future Passive

7a, 7b, 7c, 7d

Thursday: practice Cito-Listening exam (maybe)