2C June 6th

• Engels
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

English 2C

June sixth2018
Please join the class circle without your phones, with your Textbooks

Today's lesson:

- Class circle; Listening exercise (15 minutes)
- Working on exercises (30 minutes)
- End of the lesson (5 minutes)

Lesson goals:

- You have read the poem.

- You have thought about the questions.

- You can do the exercises.

Listening and reading exercise



William Wordsworth 

English poet (1770 - 1850)

daffodil - a yellow flower that blooms in the spring and that has a center that is shaped like a long tube (also see picture below)

to wander - to walk around in a relaxed way

margin - the edge of something

at a glance - with a quick look

to outdo - to do better than someone or something else

glee - joy

jocund - happy, cheerful

pensive - thoughtful and serious

bliss - complete happiness

I wandered as lonely as a cloud

- Read the poem (5 minutes max)

- Discuss what you think it is about (3 minutes)

- Read the questions on the back of the paper (3 minutes)
- Watching the video together
- Discussing the questions and poem 

Questions

1. Can the tone of the poem be best described as: angry, comic, joyful, or sad?

2. What is the narrator’s mood in the first lines and how does it change when he/she sees the daffodils?

3. What is the connection between the daffodils and the twinkling stars?

4. In the last lines (1:20 in the video), how does the memory of the daffodils change the narrator’s mood?

5. Does the poem suggest that loneliness is a good thing or a bad thing? Explain your answer. 

Questions

1. Can the tone of the poem be best described as: angry, comic, joyful, or sad?

2. What is the narrator’s mood in the first lines and how does it change when he/she sees the daffodils?

3. What is the connection between the daffodils and the twinkling stars?

4. In the last lines (1:20 in the video), how does the memory of the daffodils change the narrator’s mood?

5. Does the poem suggest that loneliness is a good thing or a bad thing? Explain your answer. 

1. Checking and correcting earlier work

Finish checking and correcting the exercises from yesterday and last week.

2. Exercises from the Activity Book

THV: Exercise 12 A+B, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 on page 90-93

KGT:Exercise 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 on page 97-99

What: checking & correcting, do exercises, extra work
How: on your own or together if it says so in your book. Please whisper quietly.
Help: ask your neighbours or raise your hand.
Time: 30 minutes (see timer)
Result: knowing what you still need to practice with
Done? 
-> Write about your ideal date or fun thing to do with friends.

Lesson goals:

- You have read the poem.

- You have thought about the questions.

- You can do the exercises.

Homework for the next lesson

- The exercises from this lesson have to be finished.