Les Receptieve Vaardigheden

Les Receptieve Vaardigheden

Class 1

Introduction

Hello!

 

In the upcoming two lessons we are going to talk about and practice your skills for reading and for the combination of listening and watching in English. The classes are about tourism.

 

First we will introduce you to the main assignment:

You are a travel agency (reisorganisatie). You have to find information about South Africa, because a customer of yours would like to visit. In order to get information about the country you will have to search the internet.

Instructions

You are a travel agency (reisorganisatie). You have to find information about South Africa, because a customer of yours would like to visit. In order to learn about the country you will have to search the internet for handy information. In order to scan the source of information for information, try to use the reading strategies we talked about in class. The information you have found must at least contain:

  • one big city that the visitors could visit;
  • a nice hotel where the visitors could stay;
  • one or two attractions (for example, going on a safari) that the visitors could do;
  • one or two sights the visitors should absolutely need to see.

The information you find and use must come from reliable sources. That means, you should write down the link of the webpage you used, the name of the author and the date when it was written. You don't have to do this on your own, but in groups of four.

We will give you videos that you can watch. From the list of five videos, you only have to use two which are good for two sources in your bibliography (bronnenlijst).

 

All the information that you have found at the end of the second class needs to be put into a Word document. Don't forget the sources. You cannot use Google as a source. The webpages you find and use for the exercises are the sources you need to put in your document. You need at least two more sources to add up to the ones from the videos that you choose from the list.

 

As a final result you have one document that contains all the information that you have found for your costumer. Present this nicely, using only for the information part a between 175-200 words. You are allowed to use pictures. The following aspects should be in your written exercise:

  • A frontpage
  • A table of contents (inhoudsopgave)
  • The information that you have found on the internet and the videos
  • Bibliography (bronnenlijst)

You need to hand in the final product in the third lesson.

 

Learning goals

One very important aspect that you need to know before you do the assignment is why you are doing it, which benefits you gain from it and what you are capable of once the assignment is handed in correctly.

Therefore we use learning goals. The goals that have our main focus for this project are the following:

  1. The pupils are able to use digital forums and tools (like YouTube) to find topic related videos.
  2. The pupils are able to use Google for searching and finding reliable sources.
  3. The pupils are able to recognise reliable sources and they know how to write them down in a bibliography.
  4. The pupils know the Ten Golden Reading Rules and are capable of using it correctly.
  5. The pupils know how to work correctly with a dictionary.

Reliable sources

Practice assignments

Here you can find exercises which we will do together in class. First we start off with a listening exercise. In the second class we will do the reading assignment. We do this to help you prepare for your writing exercise which you have to hand in in the third lesson. You have read about this in the instructions.

Listening/watching

Assignment 1

Tigers and a Dog

''Difficult words: cubs (baby animals like tigers, lions and bears), pets (animals at home). (News in Levels, 2016)''

Assignment 2

Reindeer Delivers Pizza

''Difficult words: spirit (mood), reindeer (a big Arctic animal that is similar to a deer), tracker (a system that tells you about a position), make sure (be sure). (News in Levels, 2016)''

Reading

We will do these exercises together in class.

The goal we would like to pass by doing this, is enabling you to read a text and be able to understand it.

The source for both the assignments is http://wp.digischool.nl/engels/oefenen/lezen/examentraining-vmbo-kb/ Tijdvak 2 2010.

Assignment 1

How playgrounds keep the old young          

1 Bernd Zimmermann (71) cheerfully swivels his hips on a stainless steel machine that reminds him of doing the twist 40 years earlier. At the same time, Ulrike Bernal (69) is playing with two large red plastic plates, spinning them with intense concentration. The sign outside the first playground for pensioners in Germany says that entry is only allowed under adult supervision, but that is not much of a problem for Mr Zimmermann or Ms Bernal. They and other healthy pensioners working out in the playground are part of a remarkable experiment aimed at making elderly people physically fitter. Germany has 16 million people over the age of 65. Pensioners are taking over power while children are rapidly becoming extinct.

 2  “I come every day for about half an hour and I like the leg-swing best,” Mr Zimmermann says. He worked as a car mechanic, has arthritis and finds that the swing has started to help him after only two weeks. The playground for the elderly was opened in the Prussia Park in Berlin and the eight pieces of apparatus cost €20,000 which is a fraction of the cost of building a children’s playground.  

3 Children with an accompanying adult are welcome too in Germany’s new pensioner play areas. The elderly themselves, however, disapprove of the youngsters, referring to damage to equipment, and are fearful of drug dealers moving in. Children’s playgrounds in Germany, as in Britain, used to be places where teenagers hung out: listening to music, flirting, sneering at the little kids and smoking. To prevent this happening in pensioners’ playgrounds, the benches have been removed and smoking is forbidden. Moreover all equipment on the terrain has been made graffiti-proof. 

4 The scheme has been brought to Germany by Renate Zeumer, who was impressed by the way that China had placed keep-fit equipment in public places. Now other playgrounds are being planned across the country. Most will be privately sponsored. The same ground rules apply: no swings, no slides and no bouncy castles. Germany is the most heavily insured country in the world and no local council wants to risk a playful pensioner having to be stretchered off for an emergency hip replacement! 

Assignment 2

Twister of Fate 

Tornado season opens with a bang for one shaken resident of McCrory, Arkansas.  

1  The clock stopped at 9:08 on Sunday evening May 4. That’s when the tornado hit Martha Wampler’s house in McCrory, Arkansas. Mrs Wampler, 52, was huddled with her granddaughter Anna, 3, in the hall as winds that reached 160 mph tore at the roof. Within seconds the ceilings began to collapse all around them — everywhere, that is, except in the hall, where even a table with photographs barely shook. “Things whirled around us — leaves, debris,” says Mrs Wampler, who is raising her granddaughter. “But we were not touched. We were truly blessed.” 

2  Throughout the South and Midwest that night some were not so lucky. The unusually severe weather system that generated the McCrory twister also caused dozens of others that killed at least 37 people. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured in McCrory, where residents had about 10 minutes’ warning of the twister’s approach. But afterward Mrs Wampler was amazed at the damage to her house, which included a tree in the living room. “Someone’s shoes and blankets and pants and coats were in the house,” she says. “I have no idea who they belong to.”

Videos

Homework Lesson Two

 

From the videos you can find below, you have to use two out of five. So, you do not need to use them all. In order to make your best choice you do have to watch all of them.

Do not forget to take notes when you see a video that you like. You can write down the most important information from the video and use it for your written exercise. Make sure that if you do this, you write down the source. For the video that would be the link, the name of the YouTube channel and the release date.

 

National Geographic

Top Ten Things to Do in South Africa

Top Ten Things to Do in South Africa, by Donna Salerno Travel

Top Ten Things to Do in Cape Town

The Big Five in South Africa

Listening/watching strategies

These are a few listening/watching strategies to help you with the listening assignments:

  1. Be well rested and relaxed, you have to really concentrate while listening.
  2. Listen carefully to the introduction and think of what you already know about the topic.
  3. First read the question and the answers before you start listening, try to remember parts of the answers so you know what to look for.
  4. Listen to the whole video, some words can be named but are not part of the right answer.
  5. When you do not know an answer, Stay Calm! at least choose one answer and then go to the next question.
  6. The most important thing is concentration. try to not get distracted while listening.

Reading strategies

Here are some strategies you can use when reading a text to better understand it:

Skimming:

  1. Read the titles and subtitles to find out what the text is about
  2. Look at the pictures to give you more information about the topic
  3. Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph
  4. Do not read every word or sentence, look for important keywords

Scanning:

  1. Do not read every word, instead try to scan the text until you find what you are looking for
  2. Use the titles and headings to help you
  3. try to think of questions you have about the text, this will help you get the information you are looking for and will help you understand the text better

Voor de docent

Lesformulieren

Verantwoording

Class 2