V4B 16-5-2025 2 lessen

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome! You need: exam texts handout, notebook, pen, your brain

Program lesson 1

1. Learning goals

2. Dictionary skills (5 mins)

3. Reading practice in pairs (10-15 mins)

4. Work individually, choose what to do (10-15 mins)

5. Round off together

Learning goal lesson 1

At the end of this lesson...

- I will have practised my reading and dictionary skills

Exam texts

last 2 lessons before 

the reading test

Dictionary practice (5 words)

Demean

Welwillend

Demean

Kleineren

His remark rather demeaned the old man

Welwillend

Ascend

Kwaadaardig (bijv. tumor)

Ascend

Opstijgen

The hot air balloon ascended for the second time

Kwaadaardig (bijv. tumor)

Notorious

Foutief

Notorious

Berucht

Al Capone was a notorious gangster

Foutief

Violation

Inbreuk maken op

Violation

Overtreding

By trespassing on someone else's property, 

she had committed a violation

Inbreuk maken op

Altitude

Tegen zich in het harnas jagen

Altitude

Hoogte

Some people find it hard to adjust to high altitude

Tegen zich in het harnas jagen

This was today's homework:

- Finish exam texts 7-11, questions 19-39

With your partner:

1. Check your answers, discuss differences
2. Count: how many titles in the handout contain a pun?
3. Do texts 12 and 13 together

Finished? Study Wasp vocabulary  & test each other!

Puns:

Text 4: cheers and jeers (rhymes, means 'positive and negative reactions')

Text 6: down the youtubes (down the tubes = to fail completely)

Text 8: here and back again (reference to The Hobbit (novel by Tolkien), where it meant going on an adventure and then back home again)

Text 9: revenge is a dish better left unmade (the saying is: revenge is a dish best served cold. Meaning: don't get immediate revenge, but be patient and wait for the right moment - OR: let things cool off first (and then maybe let it go)

Text 10: Hot talk-show. 'Hot' has multiple meanings (spicy, intense, popular, 'too hot to handle')

Text 4: cheers and jeers (rhymes, means 'positive and negative reactions')

Text 6: down the youtubes ('down the tubes' = to fail completely)

Text 8: here and back again (ref. to The Hobbit (novel by Tolkien), where it meant going on an adventure and then back home again)

Text 9: revenge is a dish better left unmade (the saying is: 'revenge is a dish best served cold'. Meaning: don't get immediate revenge, but be patient and wait for the right moment - OR: let things cool off first (and then maybe let it go)

Text 10: Hot talk-show. 'Hot' has multiple meanings (spicy, intense, popular, 'too hot to handle')

To do now:

1. Check your answers (Teams)

2. Listen to the video 'tekstverklaren'

3. Practise linking words: use the links

4. Study grammar/vocab for the test (Wasp, ELO)

I will send the information in Teams

Well done! You...

- have practised your reading and dictionary skills

Welcome! You need: Wasp, notebook, pen, your brain

Program lesson 2

1. Learning goals

2. Recap conditionals, + listening and speaking (15 mins)

3. Listening exercise (15 mins)

4. Grammar exercise (10 mins)

5. Round off together

Learning goals lesson 2

At the end of this lesson...

- I will have refreshed my knowledge of grammar for the test

- I will have practised my speaking and listening skills

I 

Speaking exercise with conditional

First: watch a video (1:57 mins)

Questions:

- summarize what, why, where, how, by whom

- 'grassroot library'?

Questions:

- summarize what, why, where, how, by whom

- 'grassroot library'?

Which (English) words come to mind when you see this picture?

Listening exercise (8:41 mins)

Wasp Student File

Assignment 35, p.11

Read through the statements (A)

We will check the answers together afterwards

To do now: 

Wasp assignment 39

Wasp assignment 38

p.12 Student File

Well done! You...

- have refreshed your knowledge of grammar for the test

- have practised your speaking and listening skills

Monday: reading test

(30 mins)

Think - pair - share

1. Think: on your own, in silence, write (1 min)
2. Pair: with your neighbour, compare notes (1 min)
3. Share: with the class

edition.cnn.com

www.bbc.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk

www.englisch-hilfen.de

www.englisch-hilfen.de

learnenglish.britishcouncil.org

a4esl.org

www.englisch-hilfen.de