You are going to read and speak about charity. You will read about creditcards. You will read and discuss about gambling.
You will also read a text about how money can buy hapiness.
What about you?
When you think about your future, do you think about money?
Do you enjoy reading about rags to riches tales?
Do you read stories about rich people?
Do you know how to look after your own money and to spend wisely?
Do you do things to help people who don’t have much money?
Some people say that you can buy happiness. What do you think?
These are some of the issues that we are going to explore in this theme.
Have fun!
Need to know
What do you need to know?
At the end of this theme, you should be able to talk about this subject with ease.
But you don't have to be able to do all this perfectly right away! If you take the following lessons you'll find out what you need to know!
Give it a try!
Read the questions.
Select two questions you think are interesting.
Discuss with a classmate.
Discuss these questions (your two questions and two questions of your classmate).
Answer, as good as you can, questions of your classmate.
Choose from the following questions.
Are you good at saving money? Explain why / why not?
Do you ever give money to charity? Why / why not? How often?
Do you ever buy second-hand things (used things)? Why / why not?
How much do you usually spend each month on food?
If someone gave you a million dollars, what would you do with it?
What is the most expensive thing you've ever bought? How much did it cost?
Should children get an allowance (pocket money) from their parents? How much?
If you had to save money, what can you do without? I would stop spending money on.......
If you needed to earn some extra money, how would you do that?
When you buy something, what things are most important to you? Price? Quality? Fashion trends? Status? Image?
Can do
In this theme you will focus on the following 'can do' statements.
Listening (B1-B2):
I can follow the main points in a podcast about Money.
I can listen to songs about Money and fill in the gaps in the song texts.
I can listen to songs and understand what they are singing.
I can catch the main points in a short video about chasing money.
Reading (B2)
I can rapidly grasp the content and the significance of a report about charity money.
I can read and understand an article in which the writers express specific advices and points of view about credit cards.
I can understand in detail texts within my field of interest (outside my own field if I can check with a dictionary).
I can read an article about money can buy happiness, summarize the main points. You can deal with the content and discuss the findings and your own experiences with a classmate.
Speaking (B1-B2)
I can start, maintain and close simple face to face conversation on charity.
I can maintain a conversation and discussion about gambling.
I can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity.
I can give or seek personal views and opinions in a debate with classmates.
I can give detailed accounts of experiences and describing feelings about receiving presents.
I can explain and give reasons for my choices about experience presents.
Writing (B1-B2)
I can write a detailed text about charity.
I can write an informal email to a friend giving him tips how to save money.
I can write an advertisements or commercial about a product.
I can write my own short term budget.
I can give a farewell speech for a friend.
To do
The theme Money contains an introduction, four lessons and a finishing touch.
In the schedule below, you can see the titles of the sections and an estimate of the time required for each part.
Lesson
Title
Activities
Time (hours)*
Introduction
0,5 hour
Lesson 1
Charity begins at home
Read and speak about charity.
Write about which charity you will donate money.
Grammar: Relative clauses
3-4 hours
Lesson 2
Life on the never-never
Read about creditcards and getting a loan.
Write an email about saving money.
Grammar: Passive
3-4 hours
Lesson 3
Throw the dice
Read and speak about gambling.
Hold a class debate about gambling.
Grammar: Enough/too
2-3 hours
Lesson 4
Money = happiness
Read about how money can buy happiness.
Discuss about presents.
Grammar: 2nd conditional
2-3 hours
Finishing touch
Projects
Oefenprogramma
Examentraining
Evaluation
You are going to find out more about advertising and how quickly you and your classmates spend money because of an ad you’ve seen.
You are going to practise with the 'Oefenprogramma Engels'
You are going to prepare for exams: practise taking past versions.
You will answer evaluation questions, what did you learn?
3 hours
Total
18 hours
*hour = lesuur. Eén lesuur komt ongeveer overeen met 2 SLU.
Lessons
Below are the four lessons that belong to this topic.
Make your choice.
Final Project
Many people spend money because they have seen an advertisement or a commercial. You are going to find out more about advertising and how quickly you and your classmates spend money because of an ad (advertisement) you’ve seen.
Assignment 1: marketing techniques
Find out about some of these different marketing techniques.
Collect some examples of TV/online advertisements that illustrate some of these techniques:
Social appeal (feel included)
Fear appeal (fear of consumers)
Hero endorsement (using celebrities to advertise)
Bargain appeals (at this price for a limited time only)
Statistics appeal (use numbers, proofs, to show how good product works)
Complementing customers (punch lines which complement consumers who buy their products)
Bring the videos to class. Watch them with your group.
Assignment 2: make a commercial
Now try and make a commercial in your group. Here are some ideas of products.
mobile phone
pair of shoes
a book
a computer / game console
your own idea...
As you prepare your commercial, answer these questions in your group: (write the answers down in your notebook or text document)
Who is it for? For example: A cool teenager, a soccer fan, a stylish girl.
What are three reasons people should buy or use your product?
For example: Cheap, easy, better than...
What will be your slogan?
Use a technique mentioned in assignment 1. Which technique?
Scripting
Decide what story you’d like to tell in the commercial. Write down what happens in the beginning, middle and end. Script the text for your commercial. Write down the lines.
Roles
Divide roles. Who is going to act, who is going to film. There is a role for everyone.
Film your commercial
Once you have got your story and scripts ready, it is on to filming!
Each group presents its commercial to the class.
When each group has presented, vote to see who would actually buy the product.
See below how your presentation will be judged.
Good
Sufficient
Insufficient
Organisation
Information is presented in a logical sequence.
Information is mostly presented in a logical sequence.
Information is not presented in a logical sequence.
Slides (if used)
Effective use of slides that clearly illustrate the points being made.
Good use of slides that mostly illustrated the points being made.
Poor use of slides (too many/too few?) that did not contribute to the presentation.
Content
Interesting, clear information.
Information is mostly interesting. Some was already known.
There was not much that was of interest in this presentation.
Speaker style
Speaks clearly and at an understandable pace. Maintains eye contact with audience. Well-rehearsed.
Mostly speaks clearly and a good pace. Mostly keeps eye contact. Has rehearsed a bit.
Mostly unintelligible. Does not maintain eye contact. Has not rehearsed.
Language
The vocabulary use is very good and the sentence structure is good.
The vocabulary use is fairly good and the sentence structure is good.
The vocabulary use is not very good, neither is the sentence structure.
Project B: listening and writing
Listening
What do you spend your money on? Do you save money?
Are you ‘good with money’?
Listen to the podcast. Which of the topics are mentioned?
budget
short term goals
investing
expenses
saving accounts
income
lists
credit cards
dates
Do the assignment 'Podcast Money'.
Writing
Write out a short term budget. Check your income and expenses.
Do you need to make some alterations?
Set this out as an excel sheet like the example below.
Open this Google doc link
Make a copy of the worksheet in your own environment.
(Bestand - Maak kopie) or download the worksheet (Bestand - opslaan als)
Example
Income
Expenses
Date
Source
Amount
Date
What?
Amount
08/07/2020
Allowance
€10
10/07/2020
cinema
€10
b’day present
€50
15/07/2020
clothes
€15
15/07/2020
Allowance
€10
22/07/2020
Allowance
€10
Total income
€80
Total expenses
€25
Oefenprogramma Engels
Billionaires
If your schoolparticipates in VO-content, you can practice with the English practice program 'Oefenprogramma Engels'.
Here you find a part of this program.
This section fits in well with this theme.
Sign in with your 'School Entree account'!
On www.oefenprogrammaengels.nl you can of course also practice with other reading, listening or viewing assignments!
Examentraining
On this page you will find Examenkracht exam questions of previous years.
The questions will correspond as much as possible to the exercise you have just finished.
While answering, use as much of what you have learned earlier. If you cannot answer the question right now, try again later. When you have answered a question, you can check and indicate the score yourself.
If you want your results to be saved, you will have to log in on ExamenKracht.
More practice?
Go to Examenkracht where you will find the newest exams.
What did you learn?
Can do statements
Take a look at the Can do statements in the introduction - 'Can do'.
Are you able to do what you have to do?
Finishing touch Projects
Which project did you do? How did it go?
Did you choose project A? What do you think of working in a group?
Did every group member do the same amount of work?
Analyse your mistakes
What did you learn of the mistakes you made in this theme?
You can learn a lot of your mistakes!
Do you recognize one or a few of the mistakes in this schedule?
Copy the schedule in Word.
Fill in other mistakes you made in the free bottom rows.
Fill in the missing tips in the second column. Of course, you can add your own tips for the other mistakes.
Kind of mistake
Tips
I did not learn enough.
You have to plan your learning activities better.
Don't leave it until the last minute. Set up a timetable.
I did not understand.
I did learn the Grammar theory but did not know how to use it.
I made sloppy mistakes.
I know how to do it, but I do it incorrectly because I lose concentration.
I have to check the Vocabulary. I use the wrong words or I did not recognize the words.
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Toelichting
Dit thema valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollecties voor Engels voor havo, leerjaar 4 en 5. Dit is thema Money. Dit thema omvat de volgende onderwerpen:
- Charity begins at home
- Life on the never-never
- Throw the dice
- Money = happiness
De grammaticaopdrachten gaan over Relative clauses, Passive, Enough/too en 2nd conditional.
Leerniveau
HAVO 4;
HAVO 5;
Leerinhoud en doelen
Engels;
Eindgebruiker
leerling/student
Moeilijkheidsgraad
gemiddeld
Studiebelasting
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Trefwoorden
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- Charity begins at home
- Life on the never-never
- Throw the dice
- Money = happiness
De grammaticaopdrachten gaan over Relative clauses, Passive, Enough/too en 2nd conditional.
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Money
What do you need to know?
Below are the four lessons that belong to this topic.
Final Project
Writing
Billionaires
