Week 35 Romantics/Speaking V6A

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Goals

1: At the end of this class, you will have practiced with speaking in English 

2: At the end of this class, you will have applied some of the elements of the Romantic period to paintings. 

*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).

Features

- emotional and imaginative

- intuition

- nature (as mysterious force, god-like or supplement for religion)

- exploration of human nature and native past

- exploration of importance of self-expression

- concern for outcasts of society

- focus on individuals/common man

- use of symbolism

- art as expression

- supernatural elements

neoclassical vs Romanticism

Age of reason: logical, common sense, Greek and Roman culture, optimism, self-confidence

turns into

Age of imagination: simplicity, emotion, individual voices, discontent with world around them

National Gallery - London

Royal Pavilion - Brighton

Garden at Versailles

Garden at Stourhead

PTA 2: 

A) speaking exam based on Pride & Prejudice + Frankenstein. Is it/is it not a work that belongs to the Romantics?

 B) reading + vocabulary 

Romanticism

1798 - 1837

neoclassical period - Romantic period - Victorian period

Speaking Practice

Speaking Exam

Your speaking exam consists of three parts: 

- 1) Talk about Frankenstein OR Pride and Prejudice. Argue whether it is part of the Romantic period or not. 

- 2) Job interview. You will receive a job description, can you argue why you are the best fit for this job?

3) Describing a graph/cartoon. 

Speaking exam: job interview

• One of the elements is a job interview during the speaking exam. 
• You do not know beforehand what the job interview is. We will give you a short job description. Based on the job description we will ask you questions that you need to answer. For example: Why are you the best fit for this job? /  How could you contribute to the team? 

Question of the day:

How are you going to prepare for your speaking exam during PTA 2? 

Move the desks and work in pairs! You job interview is about to start! 

Job interviews

• step 1: choose who will be the interviewer and who is going to be the interviewee. 
• step 2: In pairs pick one of the job descriptions you find interesting. 
• step 3: create a few questions (interviewer), think of possible questions that can be asked + answers (interviewee)
• step 4 start: practicing 

Job interviews

1. https://resources.workable.com/it-analyst-job-description
2. https://resources.workable.com/grocery-clerk-job-description/
3. https://resources.workable.com/receptionist-job-description
4. https://resources.workable.com/school-bus-driver-job-description
5. https://resources.workable.com/nanny-job-description
6. https://resources.workable.com/event-coordinator-job-description
7. https://resources.workable.com/cabin-crew-job-description

myjobvacancy.com

www.themuse.com

What did you find out? 

Write down 2 things you have learned today.

Join the class:

The code: 

 eanxp