Week 4: Maintenance advice part 1: reading & presenting

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Living Room & Kitchen

  During this project you will:

• learn useful vocabulary living rooms and kitchens.
• learn how to take care of different materials, such as wood, concrete and marble.
  
  You will receive a grade for: 
• the vocabulary test
• a maintenance advice for a kitchen countertop
• (extra) Studiemeter Unit 1

    This lesson

part 1	part 2
Introduction: What is maintenance advice?	Research in groups of 3, each reads about/ prepares one countertop material and then shares that with the group.

Maintenance Advice (reading & presenting)

Good maintenance advice is necessary to enjoy your interior for a longer time. After all, you can design your interior beautifully, but if your floor or furniture is full of stains afterwards, nobody will be happy. 

A good start is ever so important, the right product does the rest.

    Introduction: maintenance advice

Which elements will you find

 in a maintenance advice?

What can you find in a maintenance advice? Which parts/ elements?

- use a cutting board!

- stay away from acids!

- careful with red wine!

- clean daily with 

a damp cloth

- reseal after 1 to 2 years

   Example: stone countertop

Daily Maintenance

Periodic Maintenance

Stain 

Guide

What you need to do every day

What you need to do every few months/ years

How to avoid and remove stains

Next week you're going to create a maintenance advice for a customer to help them take care of their kitchen countertop.

To give the best advice, you need to research different materials.

• Form groups of 3.
• Each person gets their own countertop material to research.
      (wood, marble or concrete)

• Read the text and match the highlighted words to their correct English translation.
  
  
• After reading: 
  Use the text to fill in the maintenance advice on the worksheet.   (in English)

  ASSIGNMENT

For the lesson materials, please see Lease Material.

  Present in groups of 3

After writing a basic maintenance advice, it's now time to share the most important information to your group members.       (in English)

Together, help each other to write a maintenance advice for each countertop material.

Were you able to complete a 

basic maintenance advice for 

all 3 countertop materials?

What are some new words you learned today?

Do you think you could advise someone about wooden, marble 

and concrete countertops?

   Evaluation