Inauguration Biden

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

What happened last Wednesday?

Inauguration
Friday 22/1 

Goals: 

• to learn more about US politics, the inauguration in particular
• to practice listening skills

Programme

1. Introduction to yesterday's events

2. The past four years - the Trump Administration

3. Biden's speech - gap listening

4. Wrapup - knowledge&vocab check

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Fill the gap: I ______ allegiance to the flag of the USA.

1. pray
2. pledge
3. pork
4. pence

Fill the gap: ... and to the _________ for which it stands...

1. State
2. Country
3. Republic
4. Nation

Fill the gap: One nation, under God, indivisible, with _______ and justice for all.

1. liberty
2. library
3. libra
4. libel

1. Introduction - American school children also start their day with the 'Pledge of Allegiance'. In Dutch explain what this means. In yesterday's ceremony Jennifer Lopez delivered it in Spanish.

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1. introduction to yesterday's events:
Yesterday Lady Gaga sang the American anthem. It is officially called:

1. God save the Queen
2. Land of Hope and Glory
3. The Star Spangled Banner
4. This Land is your Land

2. The Trump Administration

Watch the BBC video about the Trump Administration. 

Questions:

1. Write down some examples of why Trump was an unconventional president according to the BBC. 

2. Why was Trump impeached twice - why the first time and why the second time? 

Impeachment = starten van een afzettingsprocedure

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What made Trump an unconventional president according to the BBC?

Trump is the only president to have been
impeached twice. What was he impeached the first time and why now?

3. Listening 

Watch the BBC news - questions: 

1. Did Trump attend the ceremony?

2. Why did Kamala Harris make history? (2 reasons) 

3. Why were relatively few people present? (2 reasons) 

4. What things does Biden want to tackle asap? (3 things)

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BBC news
1. Did Trump attend the ceremoy?
2. Why does Kamala Harris make history?
3. Why were relatively few people present?
4. What is Biden going to tackle asap?

Until Wednesday, Biden was the President Elect of the United States. Explain what is meant by that.

An American president can serve 2 terms in office. Explain 'term' + 'in office' in this context

Biden is America's new POTUS and Melania is FLOTUS no more. The abbreviations POTUS and FLOTUS stand for:

Goals: 

• to learn more about US politics, the inauguration in particular
• to practice listening 

Programme

1. Introduction to yesterday's events

2. The past four years - the Trump Administration

3. BBC news - listening

4. Wrapup - knowledge check

Today's goals was to learn about the inauguration/US politics and to practice listening.

1. I didn't learn anything new.
2. It was an interesting lesson, but I already knew most.
3. It was fairly interesting, I learnt some things.
4. It was an interesting lesson and I learnt a lot of new things.