May 23rd - 3V - P4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

To do:

• On the table: pens or pencil case
• Insight and notebook!
• Air pods/head phones/etc + phone in the bag

Assignment:

Dealing with a dictionary:

Her latest book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.

What does paradigm mean? Write it down

Goals

I can explain what the next test is about!

I can use a dictionary effectively

Reading II

Important:

Weging 2

When?

Tuesday, 25th of June

Help:

May use a dictionary (Eng-NL)

The test contains:

5 texts

22 questions
Sort of questions:

- gap fill

- text function

- specific info

- summarize paragraphs

Homework...

Vocab insight, page 66

exercise 2, 3 and 5

Review 5, page 67

exercise 1,2,3 and 4

Dictionary!

1. Pay attention to context (what is the text/sentence about?)
2. What sort of word? > zelfst. nw/bijvoeg nw/etc.

3. Not in the dictionary? Can you adjust it to a word that is?

Context + Type

1. You were right.

2. Make a right turn at the light.

3. Access to clean water 

is a basic human right.

There are some in this classroom who might be defined as a barbermonger 

Barbermonger

What to do?

Practice

Trump’s capriciousness obfuscated his complex brew of personal business interests with genuine U.S. commercial and national security priorities.

—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 May 2024

Basis van obfuscated?

Dictionairy race!

There has been a plethora of plays in recent years whose claim to modernity is based on indicated rather than felt emotion.

—Arthur Miller, Harper's, March 1999

The material is impervious to water.

The bay’s lobsters have been decimated by disease.

The piece thankfully stops short of being a hagiography of Murrow: the point is made that by stepping so far out into partisan waters as distinct from just reporting the news, the great newsman opened the door to partisan attacks on a clearly partisan media.

—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025

2 exam texts to practice with!

1 with a dictionary and try 1 without a dictionary 

and see how it goes!

Done? Continue with homework:

Vocab insight, page 66

exercise 2, 3 and 5

Review 5, page 67

exercise 1,2,3 and 4

Thank you for paying attention!