Unit 4- Inside the White House - Reading

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Can you guess what this is?

It's spaghetti! Well done if you guessed correctly. :)

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USA 

UK

Elevator

Lift

movie theater

Cinema

New vocbulary

private home

birthday party

wedding 

built

to govern

guest

staff

fireplace

curtains

furniture

gift

elevator

jogging track

billiard room

bowling alley

library

1. Look at the pictures of the White House, what can you see?

2. Tip: Government offices = 

open to the public = 

3. You have 3 minutes to read through the text, don't worry if you do not recognize all the words, just focus on finding your answers. 

Answers

1. true

2. false

3. false

4. true

5. true

6. true

Exercise 4

Read through the questions, let's do the first one together.

Work in pairs to complete exercise 4

5. Find the numbers in the box

How do we say these numbers? 

Work in pairs

5. Answers

• 50 = There are fifty states in the US
  
• 304 million = the number of people in the US/ the population
• 6,000 = the number of people who visit the White House each day
• 132 = the number of rooms in the White House
• 35 = the number of bathrooms in the White House
• five = the number of kitchens in the White House
• six = the number of floors in the White House
• 140 = the number of guests that can go in the State Dining Room

Exercise 6

Tip: Remember that is = singular and are = plural

cinema = singular

offices = plural 

Work in pairs to answer and ask the questions. 

Is there a cinema?                          Yes, there is.

Are there many offices?                   Yes, there are a lot.

Exercise 7 - Homework if not finished in class

Match the verb with the place