Week 6 - Listening Elections

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Week 6 - Listening

Goal: I can gather information from spoken and written English

During this lesson

• Election news

Who do you think will win
the US 2020 elections?

1. Biden
2. Trump
3. I don't know
4. I don't care

How do the elections work in the US?

How can a candidate win more states, but still lose the election?

Drag the words into the correct boxes

1. People in the USA
                   to elect a new                           every four years.

2. The last U.S. presidential                     was held in 2016.

3. The U.S. presidential elections aren’t won by                           vote.

4. U.S. presidential elections are decided by the number of votes cast in individual                            .

5. On election day citizens go to a voting center and            their vote for the candidate of their choice.

6. The amount of influence a state has is measured by the size of its                          .

7. A person who stands for election is known as a                        .

8. A candidate needs more than half of the total number of                                     to win the presidency.

vote

president

election 

popular 

states

cast

population

candidate

electors

Words in the news

electoral

underdog

to narrow

dead-cat bounce

uncertainty

polarization

regression

The point with Chris Cillizza

While listening:

1. Is Trump an underdog is this election?

2. Who does Cillizza think will win the election?

Is Trump an underdog in this election?

1. yes
2. no

Who does Cillizza think will win the election?

1. Biden
2. Trump
3. he doesn't know
4. he doesn't care