Week 5 Grammar + Writing

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Today's objectives

You are able to:

• apply the passive.

passive voice?

Check the technique

1. Read the theory on page 92 (Theme 5, H)
   
2. Do exercise 41.
3. Finished? Do exercise 43

Become a passive expert

Become a content expert

Determine your writing purpose: persuade, inform or amuse. 

• Persuasive texts: is your point of view clear? Argumentation clear and convincing? Conclusion logical?
• Informative texts: is the main idea clear? Sufficient reliable information? 

Check the passive

Think up a headline concerning each topic. Make sure you include the passive voice in your headline.

  

Work together and tell each other your headlines. Give each other feedback: 

- Were the passives used correctly?  

- What can be improved?

Today's objectives

You are able to:

• apply the passive 
• apply word order

00:30

The heroes of our story ___ (CONCEIVE) in this oil refinery.

00:37

The plastic in their bodies ___ (FORM) by chemically bonding oil and gas.

Grammar auction - word order

00:46

These monomers ___ (BOND) into long polymer chains to make plastic in …

01:19

Bottle one [...] ___ (END UP) in a landfill.

02:05

He ___ (FLOAT) on a trickle that reaches a stream, a stream that flows ...

03:00

The lanternfish ___ (EAT) by squid, ...

03:36

The blocks ___ (SHRED) into tiny pieces, ...

00:55

Those ___ (MELT) at manufacturing plants [...] to create the resilient …

01:36

As plastics sit there ___ (COMPRESS) amongst layers of other junk..

02:44

They, and others, ___ (MISTAKE) the brightly colored plastic bits for food.

03:18

But bottle three ____ (SPARE) the cruel purgatories of his brothers.

Bets are on! You have £1000 to spend. Invest wisely.

1. I usually do not take sugar in my tea.
2. We went during the summer to a holiday resort in Italy.
3. She goes to the computer lab seldom on Tuesday afternoons.
4. My parents always have been very encouraging and supportive.
5. She didn't have ketchup with her burger.
   
6.  Already as a child I knew I was going to be a teacher.
7. We do not often walk to school.
8. No sooner had we left the house than it started to rain.
9. I always am the first person to arrive at work.
10. I studied also at a private language school during the summer.

Bets are on! You have 1000 pounds to spend.

1. I usually do not take sugar in my tea.
2. We went during the summer to a holiday resort in Italy.
3. She goes to the computer lab seldom on Tuesday afternoons.
4. My parents always have been very encouraging and supportive.
5. She didn't have ketchup with her burger.
   
6.  Already as a child I knew I was going to be a teacher.
7. We do not often walk to school.
8. No sooner had we left the house than it started to rain.
   
9. I am always the first person to arrive at work.
10. I studied also at a private language school last year.

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Grammar Course

9: Word Order

- Standard

- Difficult