SE Speaking 2020/2021: Texts 9 and 10

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Text 9: Around the world in 4,205 days

In pairs

- Read paragraph 1 and talk about what happened.

- Paragraph 2: What do you think 'flotilla' means?

- Did the load consist of ducks only?

- Read paragraphs 3 - 8 and talk about how 'these toys have been working during their trip'.

Answer the following questions

- Scan the text and look at how these ducks have been able to help 'investigate a suspected murder (...) along the way'.

(Hint: go to page 26)

- Explain the pun (joke with words) in paragraph 26: "The person who finds the first one is going to make a big splash." Also explain how.

Discuss

Paragraph 20:

"There are 50 of these big steel cargo containers floating in the Atlantic at any one time and they're definitely a hazard."

What are the dangers of these floating containers in the Atlantic? Any ideas on solution(s)?

Beach cleanup tour
van Stichting De Noordzee

Marien zwerfafval (zwerfafval in zee) en plastic vervuiling zijn een wereldwijd groeiend milieuprobleem. Jaarlijks stroomt er ongeveer 8 miljoen ton plastic in onze oceanen.

Dit is schadelijk voor de oceanen en de vele diersoorten die erin leven. Zeezoogdieren, vogels en vissen zien het afval, zoals stukjes plastic, dopjes of plastic zakjes, aan voor voedsel. Ze raken verstrikt in afgedankte of verloren netten, visdraad en touwen.

Plastic deeltjes zijn inmiddels in 660 in zee levende soorten aangetroffen. Mogelijke effecten op de menselijke gezondheid worden onderzocht.

Text 10: Is there anybody out there?

What do you think:
Is there anybody out there?
Why (not)?

Answer the questions

- Read paragraphs 1 - 7: Why do most plans focus on Mars and 'follow the water'?

- What does the 'direct approach' consist of?

- What is said about the moons of Jupiter and Saturn in paragraphs 8 and 9?

Discuss

- Approach 1 was the direct one, what are the other two (paragraphs 11 - 17)? Can you describe them?

- What does a planet need to be habitable?

- Explain what they mean with 'so the discourse will be tedious' (paragraph 18).

Your opinion

Do you agree with the writer that finding extra-terrestrial life would be a good find?

Why (not)?