1. Magazines and the news
NU Engels unit 4

2. What kind of texts do you expect to find in this unit?

3. What kind of texts do you expect to find in this unit?
Short articles
The news
Famous people
Incidents and accidents
Science and innovations

4. How to read efficiently?
Title, headlines, photos
Paragraphs (alinea’s)
Topic sentence (Kernzin)
Key words (Kernwoorden)
Collocations (uitdrukkingen)
Open questions / arguments

5. Sample questions What is the text about?
What is the first paragraph about?
Which sentence contains the main idea of the text?
What happened in 2013, according to paragraph 5?

6. Understanding texts Exam exercise p. 121
Look at the title of the article and at the photo. What do you think the text is about?

7. Understanding texts Exam exercise p. 121
Look at the title of the article and at the photo. What do you think the text is about?
Brainstorm: What kind of information do you expect to find in the text?

8. Understanding texts Exam exercise p. 121
Look at the title of the article and at the photo. What do you think the text is about?
Brainstorm: What kind of information do you expect to find in the text?
Read the questions below the text. Do they give you any more ideas?

9. Understanding texts Exam exercise p. 121
Look at the title of the article and at the photo. What do you think the text is about?
Brainstorm: What kind of information do you expect to find in the text?
Read the questions below the text. Do they give you any more ideas?
Vocabulary: What are the keys words?

10. Understanding texts Exam exercise p. 139

11. Vocabulary boost: synonyms
Choose 5 words and write their synonyms.
a remedy an ache severe
to damage to give up to appreciate
to cycle unemployed dehydrated
to disagree an injury to investigate

12. Grammar: Prepositions (Voorzetsels)
Place
Time

13. Grammar: Questions (Vragen)
Inversion
Auxiliary verbs: do, does, did