Last lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome to the very last English lesson🥺

With Ms Frijns

Background: What is this?

End of the year tournament

In groups, 3 Rounds:

• What does that mean?!
• Phonetics
• Pictionary

Round 1: What does that mean?!

You have learnt different words from Dead Poets Society. Now, I am going to test your knowledge. 

Write down on your whiteboard what you think this word means. 

She spent half an hour ferreting through the drawer looking for her passport.

Ferreting

Searching for something in a determined way.

In the 18th century, many workers became indentured to pay off their travel debts to America.

Indentured

Forced to work for someone for a set time, usually by contract.

The manager gave him a strict reprimand for being late three days in a row.

Repriment

A serious scolding or warning.

My grandmother is sitting by the fire, quietly doing some mending.

Mending

Repairing something, especially clothes.

We could hear the bagpipes playing all the way from the other side of the hill.

Bagpipes

A Scottish musical instrument with pipes and a bag.

The trial was a complete travesty of justice; the evidence was ignored.

Travesty

A very bad or unfair version of something.

Round 2: Phonetics

You have learnt different phonemes throughout the phonetic lessons. Write down the translation on you board. 

/bæˈleɪ/

/bæˈleɪ/

Ballet

/ˈkwaɪər/

/ˈkwaɪər/

Choir

/jɒt/

/jɒt/

Yacht

/ˈkʌbərd/

/ˈkʌbərd/

Cupboard

/ˈɒnɪst/

/ˈɒnɪst/

honest

/ˈwʊstʃə/

/ˈwʊstʃə/

Worcestershire

Sword

Sword

sɔːrd

Aisle

Aisle

/aɪl/

Psychology

Psychology

saɪˈkɒlədʒi

Bureau

Bureau

ˈbjʊərəʊ

Round 3: Pictionary

I will give you a word from the wordlists. Draw this word. You get a point if your group can say what it is in ENGLISH.