Reading N4

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

Welcome

Welcome

What are we going to do today?

- we are going to read a text about sinkholes
- you are going to make an exercise about the text in groups in break-out rooms.
- you will be answering questions about the text in the lessonup app.

Learning goal: you are able to find the meaning of difficult English words in the text by working together in groups.

What are the names of the 7 continents in the world?

1. Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica.
2. Asia, North Africa, South Africa, Europe, America, Australia and Antarctica.
3. North Asia, South Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Australia and Antarctica

Exercise 1

We are going to read a text about sinkholes together.

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Exercise 2

- I will send you an exercise via the teams chat. Everyone of you should download it on your PC.

- I will divide the class into subgroups of a maximum of 3 persons
- In this subgroup you will do the exercise I just sent you.
- you will get 10 minutes for this exercise and then we will return back in class to discuss the answers.

Read the text. For each definition, find the word or expression it describes in the text and write it down.

1. becoming lower, moving downwards

2. a hole so deep that it cannot be measured

3. careful studies of something to learn more about it

4. to make worse

5. a small part of something

6. easily becoming covered with water because of heavy rain or high water

7. making people worried or upset

8. toward the inside of something

9. causing a lot of damage or destruction

10. at the present time

11. a very large or important city

12. a general direction of change

13. to flow or spread slowly through small openings

14. large holes that suddenly appear in the ground

15. the act or process of getting something out of something

16. water that collects below the surface of the earth

Choose the best summary.

1. For some people, the new year is so terrifying that it feels like the ground is sinking.
2. Millions of people are put at risk because the earth’s land surface is slowly sinking.
3. Research shows that the earth’s ground is sinking, but for most people it is not a big deal.
4. The earth’s ground surface is actually sinking, but that is just a natural process

What does subsidence mean?

1. All the research that is done to understand the sinking of the earth’s ground surface.
2. The financing of projects to do something against the sinking of the ground.
3. The phenomenon that the earth’s ground surface is sinking slowly.
4. The sinking of the ground in North America and Europe over the next 20 years.

Why have the US started to move some cities away from the coast?

1. Last year’s presidential election shows that people have to be spread more democratically.
2. The Indonesian succes of relocating Jakarta shows that this is a good idea.
3. These cities could become flooded because of the sinking of the ground plus climate change.
4. To make room for the millions of people that will lose their homes because of the sinking ground.