P5W5 ENG MC: Time travelling through Brussels

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Lesson Entry: Check your story

Take a look at your text, and check:

1. Handwriting: Was my handwriting okay?
2. Lay-out: Did I highlight all quantifiers in 2 different colours? (one for countable nouns, one for uncountable nouns?
   If a quantifier can be both countable and uncountable: look at the noun. For example: a lot of snakeS --> countable >< a lot of fun --> uncountable
3. Story about a hero: Was my text actually about a writer leaving home to go to Brussels on a heroic quest?
4. If the answer to one of these questions is no: write down the word in bold

Note: "little" is also an adjective

a little house --> ADJECTIVE 

 = a tiny house (describes the house)

≠ a tiny bit of the house

a little time --> QUANTIFIER

= a tiny bit of time (describes the AMOUNT of time)

≠ a tiny time (?)

Check: Did I use the quantifiers correctly?

Famous Irish authors

- Oscar Wilde -> playwright + The Picture of Dorian Gray

- James Joyce -> Ulysses + modernism

- Samuel Beckett -> Playwright Waiting for Godot + absurd

What does the protagonist of Moulin Rouge have in common with the Irish authors?

They all traveled or moved to Paris to become better writers or find new inspiration.

However, you are not going to Paris but to Brussels.

Your turn to make an author move to Brussels

The Hero's Journey

Which THREE parts of the hero's journey are most clear?

Three parts

1. Leaving home
2. Facing difficulties
3. Returning home, changed for the better 

Our text

• Your author leaves home, goes to Brussels and changes their life there, before returning
• You use QUANTIFIERS, ADVERBS, ADJECTIVES, EMOTIONS and DIFFERENT VERB TENSES (= simple present, simple past, simple future, present continuous, past continuous, present perfect, past perfect)
• You write this text yourself on a piece of paper!

Today

LEAVING HOME (all written on paper)

1. Read the example text on the project site.
2. You make up a fictional author
3. You make a text of at least 10 sentences of how and why they leave home
4. You use at least 6 quantifiers: 3 with countable nouns, 3 with uncountable nouns
5. You hand in your text when class is over

Hand in your text

When in Brussels:
Think of something cool to happen to your author. 
-> nice building, mysterious activities, be creative!

Most of all:

ENJOY!!

Use the following emotions

- mortified

- exasperated

- ...

Exam: Practicalities

- Part 1 on Chromebook (images), part 2 on paper

- Part 2 will follow the following structure: 
1) vocabulary, 2) grammar, 3) culture, 4) literature and story analysis, 5) writing + reading texts at the end (in attachment)

- Bring 3 markers: pink, yellow, green

Exam: Lay-out

- Write clearly

- Use capital letters

- Use punctuation marks

- Copy the words in the question correctly!

e.g. "Use 'surprised' in the correct context"
--> He is suprised that he didn't win the match; he was so certain that he would do well.

Exam

The best of luck! 🍀🍀🍀