Preparing for the reading exam 2024-II

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• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

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& preparing for reading exam

h4entl1, 15 May 2025

Today's lesson

Three presentations

Practise for reading exam

Presentations

presentations: Mirte, Joris, Julia

Pay attention to the presentation.

Think of any questions you might have about the topic.

Look at text 1, exam 2024-II

What is the first thing you do with this text?

The first thing you do with a text

Look at title, pictures to get an idea of the topic.

Find out what kind of text it is.

What is meant by MLE?

Read text 1, exam 2016-II

Which part of the text do you have to read to answer question 1?

1. Just the title and introduction.
2. The whole text.
3. Just the concluding paragraph
4. You scan the text and then read parts of it.

Read Text 1 to answer question 1

Mark the words you don't know (yet).

Can you deduce the meaning from the context?

Mark the words you think are important for answering the text.

What makes these words important?

What do you read to answer question 2?

1. The whole text.
2. Just the sentence with the gap.
3. The whole paragraph

What kind of text is text 2?
Why is this important?

Which part of the text do you have to read to answer question 3?

1. Just the title and introduction.
2. The whole text.
3. Just the concluding paragraph
4. You scan the text and then read parts of it.

What do you read to answer question 4?

1. The whole text.
2. Just the sentence with the gap.
3. The whole paragraph

Text 2, Men, you need to listen

Answer questions 3 and 4.

Then go to text 3: Vacant chairs

And answer question 5.

How do you answer these? Which steps do you take?

answers Text 2 & 3

3: B (Key word = nuanced.)

4: D (gender-egalitarian = not putting men against women) Think of 'equal' = gelijk.

5: C (giving women an chair in the board room, but using the word chairmen in stead of ...) Key word: undermine - do you know what it means?

Which kind of text is the most difficult for you? 1, 2 or 3. And why?

How to practise by yourself?

Read books & articles. Look up words you don't know (yet).

Listen to podcasts.

Watch films, tv series with English subtitles.

Be aware of words you don't know (yet).

&

Go to Read Theory, the website with short texts and questions.

You improve with every serious attempt!

Next lesson

Not tomorrow = v4 language trip to London etc.

Next week 

On Thursday presentations by:

Esmee, Gabriel, Ivan, Manou, Meike

On Friday presentations by:

David, Midas, Oliver, Ser, Sil