Lesson 4 period 8

Welcome 

Today's programme

- look back at last week's lesson
- hospitality video exercise
- writing a review

Week 1 14 September	Introduction & reading about the Netherlands
Week 2 21 September	International project with schools from Finland and Denmark & reading/vocabulary
Week 3 28 September	Adverbs and adjectives, language card exercise and working online
Week 4 5 October	Conjunctions and Claridges hotel exercise
Week 5 12 October	Review writing and reading text about vegans
Week 6 19 October	Conjunctions and demonstrative pronouns
Week 7 2 November	Adverbs/adjectives and listening exercise about the number 1 new restaurant in the United States
Week 8 9 November	Period test adverbs/adjectives and conjunctions and language card test

Look back at last week's lesson

working on writing plan & homework: rough lay-out of your letter

You are writing a letter to Mevrouw Smith (not married).
How do you start?

1. Dear Mrs Smith,
2. Dear Miss Smith,
3. Dear Ms Smith,
4. Dear Mr Smith,

You are writing a letter to Mevrouw Smith (you don't know is she is married).
How do ypu start?

1. Dear Ms Smith,
2. Dear Miss Smith,
3. Dear Mr Smith,
4. Dear Mrs Smith

You are writing a letter to Mevrouw Smith (married).
How do you start?

1. Dear Mrs Smith,
2. Dear Miss Smith,
3. Dear Mr Smith,
4. Dear Ms Smith,

You know the name of the person of which you have been writing to (formal). How do you end?

1. Yours faithfully,
2. Yours sincerely,
3. Greetingz!

You don't know the name of the person of which you have been writing to (formal). How do you end?

1. Yours faithfully,
2. Yours sincerely,
3. Bye bye!

Summary

- formal letter start: Dear Sir/Madam, Dear Mrs Smith, Dear Miss Smith, etc.
  formal letter end: Yours faithfully, OR Yours sincerely,

- informal letter start: Dear Peter, Hello Samira, etc.
  informal letter end: Bye,  All the best, etc. 

- Always use capital I (at the start, middle, end --> always!)
- Make sure you use your tenses consequently
- Make use of paragraphs (at least three)

high-quality restaurant

Exercise 2

We are now going to watch the first 26 seconds of a Ted Talk.

 After these 26 seconds I will stop the video and ask you what do you think this video will be about?

What will be the goal of the speaker? What does he want to achieve by doing this Ted Talk you think?

While watching I want you to write down verbs that have to do with the restaurant industry

Exercise 1

You are going to create your own questions in groups after seeing this video. They have to be multiple choice or yes/no.

Also make an answering sheet, because another group is going to take this quiz.

Exercise 2

You are going to make a mindmap/schedule/woordweb about this video.

Take notes while watching and when the video is over you can organise your work.

Evaluation

Present your results, how did it go?
How did you co-operate?
What did you learn?
What would you do differently next time?

writing a review

writing a review about a restaurant summary

Points that should be included in your review:

- introduction with the name of the place
- the location
- something about how you experienced the service
- your opinion about the place WITH arguments
- conclusion

Review topics

- books
- films
-restaurants
- games
- stores
etc.

Exercise: writing a review

- You will be writing another review now.

* choose your topic (film, series, book or game)
* write a review about it and make sure to use the points that should be included in the review (opinion, arguments and recommendation)

Your writing should be at least 150 words. After you have finished you can send the review to me so that I can give you some feedback.

Good luck!