1C Tuesday June 10, 2025

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1

English lesson, June 10, 2025

WELCOME EVERYONE!

Today

Reading Strategies 

Prepositions

Lesson objectives for today:

After this lesson, you will know:  

     -Different reading strategies.

     -How to apply reading strategies.

        (leesstrategieen kunnen 

         toepassen)

Reading strategies

 How do you read a text? 

(Hoe pak je een leestekst aan?)

Hoe pak jij een
leestekst aan?

Why are reading strategies important?

Reading strategies

1. Skimming: understanding the main idea and concept. 
2. Scanning: look for key/important information (for example: names, dates, numbers.
3. Intensive reading: read and understand the complete text.

Skimming

1. Read the title 
2. Read the introduction 
3. Search for the source (=bron) of your text
4. Look at pictures / images 
5. Look at bold or underlined words or words in italics. 

Scanning 

1. Read the title and subheadings (=tussenkopjes)
2. Look for keywords that tell you more about what you are looking for in a text
3. Look at bold or underlined words or words in italics. 

To read a text quickly to understand the general idea.

1. Skimming
2. Scanning
3. Reading for detail

When do you use the reading technique scanning?

1. Deciding if you want to read a news article or not.
2. Reading and understanding a complete text.
3. When you look for a date of birth.
4. While reading a recipe.

Intensive reading

Use intensive reading to understand all the information in a text. To use intensive reading, you:

– read the whole text;

– pay extra attention to the introduction, subheadings, and the conclusion;

– look for the most important words and sentences in each paragraph;

– look up the meaning of words you don’t know.

TIPS

1. First read the QUESTIONS, then read the TEXT.
2. You don't need to know all the words in order to understand a text.
3. Practice, practice, practice! Skills need to be TRAINED. 

The Questions

Let's practice! 

1 text and questions

2 highlighter pens 

3 a regular pen

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Skim 

Underline key words in questions

Circle 1 with a highlighter pen

Highlight your answer in the text in that colour

Prepositions of place

Prepositions of place

He is going up the stairs.          

Tina is walking to school        

The teacher is walking through the door.        

The book is on the table.       

I am getting out of the shower now.

The cat just jumped off the fence.

Mum is in the house.

The airplane is going from Amsterdam to London.

Jasper is sitting behind Bas.

TEST periode 5

-Reading (m/h)

-Listening (m/h)

-Present Continuous (. ? -) (m/h)

-Present Simple Questions (m/h)

(Do/Does)

-Some / Any (m/h)

-Question words  (m)

(wh-h words)

Lesson objectives(doelen) for today:

1. After this lesson, you will know different reading strategies.
2. After this lesson, you know how to apply reading strategies.

Homework 

Study words and finish Exercises

(niet af woensdag 9/6 dan HKU)