P3 G3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Test week starts in 3, 2, 1 ...

What can you do to prepare?

• Examenblad VMBO TL
• Examenblad HAVO

Building suspense with Agatha Christie

• Characters are sometimes stereotypical.
• Plotting out the mystery before writing the story.
• Adding clues that put readers on the wrong foot.
• The detective is an outsider.

Setting

• an enormous bathroom
• ancient ruins
• a parking lot
• docks

Weapon

• a vial of acid
• a bear trap
• a heavy candle
• a harpoon

Characters

• A magician who perfected the sawing-your husband-in-two routine. Then, she made his body disappear.
• An Italian jeweler of great renown who traveled the world in search of precious stones which are always falling out of his pockets.
• The smartest doctor according to themselves. Yeah, they smoke but if they get cancer, they'll find a cure.
• Gorgeous and charming, but not all there in the brains department. Or maybe that's what she want you to think. Or maybe she wants you to think that's what she wants you to think.

This story has a killer opening and a great ending. The murder is both plausible and exciting.

Write about 200 words.

padlet.com

Peer feedback murder mystery

• Read each others's stories.
• Use the rubric to focus on setting, vocabulary and suspense.

• Add best practices from your stories to Padlet (one laptop)
• Give one example in every category from each group.
• Please add your names to the comment.

Finish up your year 3C

• speaking assessment (weighs 2)
• novel test (weighs 2) Tomorrow 12 June
• VMBO T/HAVO exam reading in test week (weighs 2) Wednesday 26 June

Speaking assessment

• Part 1 (50% of your grade) 3 minutes
  

You receive a news picture. Pretend that one of you is a reporter on the scene and one of you is the anchor person in the studio. Prepare for 5 minutes. Then do your broadcast.

• Part 2 (50% of your grade) 4 minutes
  

Pick a speaking card and have a conversation with the two of you.

what

where

when

who

how

Speed date

• Do you have any pet peeves?
• What is your favorite place in the world to be?

• If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be and why?
• If money were no object, what would you do with your life?

Part 1

We will give the two of you a news picture. 

Pretend that one of you is a reporter on the scene and one of you is the anchor person in the studio. 

 Then do your broadcast. 

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where

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who

how

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Speaking assignment in class

Either watch the BBC or CNN or any other major English speaking news broadcaster. 

On your exam you will be in pairs and discuss a news item chosen by your teacher on a major subject that has been in the news from now until the end of May. Any extra information that will be added by yourself will of course result in a higher grade :-).

Revision Grammar

15 Past perfect
At first I thought I ... (do) the right thing, but I soon realised that I had made a big mistake.

16 Past perfect continuous
We ... (play) tennis for about half an hour when it started raining.

15 / 16
He ... (have) long hair since I first met him.

19 Present tenses for the future
My train ___ at 11.30, so I need to leave on time.

1. leaves
2. is leaving
3. is going to leave

25 When I do / When I've done
When you ___ in London again, come and see us.

1. will be
2. are

52 Question tags
I am right, ...?