Step 2: The trip of a lifetime

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• Secundair onderwijs

Step 2

Trip of a lifetime

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Role card game

You will get assigned a role card. Interview your partner in English.

Look for the role cards on Smartschool.

Ex. 2-3 p. 97 - 100

Answer questions on p. 97 - 98.

Read the text to find the answers.

a) Where does Melissa come from?

b) Which means of transport did she use during her holiday?

c) Which city did not make the best impression?

d) Was Melissa satisfied with her holiday? How can you tell?

3a) Melisse compares Europe to the U.S.A. What are the differences in her opinion?

1. The buildings are old, made of stone and intricately designed
2. The towns are small with the buildings close together
3. Rolling green countryside; towns are not as spread out as in America.
4. All of the above.

3b) What did Melissa NOT visit?

1. The Eiffel tower
2. The Arc de Triomphe and the river Seine
3. Musée d'Orsay
4. The Louvre museum and the Ritz hotel

3c) Give Melissa's itinerary (plan of travel)

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Germany: Idar Oberstein

France: Paris

Luxembourg and Switzerland: Zurich and Lucerne

Germany: Trier, Bernkastel & Cochem

4. Look back to the text

Look at the text again, and answer the questions.

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a) What time period does Melissa refer to?

1. past
2. present
3. future

In English, we call "klinkers" ... (a, o, u, i)

1. consonants
2. vowels
3. stressed vowels
4. stressed consonants

In English, we call "medeklinkers" ... (m, p, f, b, ...)

1. consonants
2. vowels
3. stressed vowels
4. stressed consonants

If a word has ... that letter is pronounced with more volume than the other letters.

1. consonants
2. vowels
3. stressed vowels
4. stressed consonants

... are not real, they do not exist.

1. consonants
2. vowels
3. stressed vowels
4. stressed consonants

Vowels, consonants, stressed vowels

Vowels = klinkers (a, o, u, i)

Consonants = medeklinkers (f, b, t, v, w, ...)

Stressed vowels = klinkers die je luider zegt dan andere klinkers in hetzelfde woord. 

E.g.: students, about, computer, ...

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Ex. 7 p. 101-102

We have 3 types of sounds for verbs that end in -ed:

• /id/ e.g. "wanted"
• /t/ e.g. "helped"
• /d/ e.g. "called"

Listen to the verbs in the listening exercise and place them in the correct column.

Look at the pictures on p. 102.
- Write one sentence for each picture using the correct vocabulary to explain to your friends what you did on holiday.
- Add one day of the week for each activity. (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, ...)
- Pay attention to spelling, capital letters, and punctuation!
E.g.: "On Monday we spent the entire day knitting scarves."