1P3L5 Reading Informative texts

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English Reading

14 March 2024

14 March

Pi-Day

Pi = 3.14

Date = 3/14

1991

The 'Birmingham Six' were released from jail after 16 years when their convictions for the murder of 21 people in two pub bombings were annulled by the Court of Appeal. The Birmingham Six receive around 1 million pounds each compensation in 2001.

11 March 2020

The World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic.

What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

What pandemics did we
encounter since 1850?

Pandemics

epi/pan             Disease                   Years                  Death toll           

3rd plague      Bubonic plague   1855-1960       12-15 million      

Spanish flu     Influenza                1918-1920        17-100 million    

HIV/AIDS          HIV                             1981- now        43 million           

COVID-19         COVID-19                 2020- now      7-35 million       

Today's lesson 

Attendance

Today's goals

Warm-up

Reading informative texts

Vocabulary

Practise

Work on your homework

Today's goals

At the end of this lesson you will be able and have practised to read informative texts.

Warm-up

Please, answer the question.

What type of informative texts
can you name?

Types of informative texts

Newspapers 

Magazines

Workrelated texts

Websites

Specifics

Newspapers: rubrics like economics, foreign news, etc

Magazines: rubrics, certain subject, longer articles, etc

Businesses: internet page, reports, memos, minutes

Vocabulary

Informative texts

Practise

Reading informative texts

Practise reading informative texts

Google: test-english reading                              reading B1  

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Homework

A2 and B1: All chapters .2 

When not finished, you will not be allowed to do the test!

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