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To the circuit On Friday morning Herbert and Laura pick up Jean Philippe and Chantal and drive to Castle Combe Circuit. On the way uncle Herbert informs the young people about the place and tells them what they are going to do there. Open your workbook at ex. 8.1. Read the questions and answer them after listening to the conversation. Ask for a second listening session if necessary. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
s passengers around the circuit in a car of their choice, a Ford, a Lotus Elise or even a Ferrari 360. One passenger at a time, mind you. He does three laps Formula One style: one in lap, one fast lap and one out lap. Jean Philippe
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I can imagine what a fast lap is. But what is an “in lap”? And an “out lap”?
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a lap een (baan)ronde a tyre een band a decision een beslissing
Read the conversation several times in teams of four pupils. Switch roles every time.
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You are to read the information about Car Track Days and White Knuckle Rides below. Which reading strategies are you going to apply? Write them in your workbook. WB ex. 8.2.1
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WB ex. 8.2.2 & 3
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Now read the article and answer the questions.
General Car Track Days
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van hoofdbelang een vergunning verlenen aan jaarlijks
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Grammar Relative clauses The antecedent The antecedent is the noun the relative pronoun refers to. It can be: Het antecedent is het substantief waar het betrekkelijk voornaamwoord naar verwijst. Dat kan zijn:
• a person, een persoon,
The girl that did the white knuckle ride yelled all the time. The driver who took her in his car had never heard anyone yell so loud. • an animal or a thing een dier of een ding
The dog that is running around in the street is dangerous. The car which overturned during the ride is total loss.
1 In most cases you can use that as a relative pronoun. It sounds informal. In een groot aantal gevallen kun je that gebruiken als betrekkelijk voornaamwoord. Het klinkt informeel.
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The girl that disappeared is safe now. The car that the driver used was a Ford Focus. The boy that the police were looking for was found in a deserted building. 155
2 The relative pronoun that can be replaced by who when the antecedent is a person, which is possible when the antecedent is an animal or a thing. Het betrekkelijk voornaamwoord that kan vervangen worden door who als het antecedent een persoon is en which is mogelijk als het antecedent een dier of een ding is.
The man who took the young people in his car was an experienced driver. The car which the driver used was a Ferrari. 3 When the relative pronoun is not subject of the relative clause, but direct object or prepositional object, it can be dropped. This is common in spoken language. Als het betrekkelijk voornaamwoord niet het onderwerp van de zin is, maar lijdend voorwerp of voorzetselvoorwerp, kan het worden weggelaten. Dit gebeurt vaak in gesproken taal.
The man we met at the entrance was our driver. Can you describe the clothes you have to wear? Is this the boy the police want to talk to?
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Note the end-position of the preposition in the relative clause. Let op de plaats van het voorzetsel in de betrekkelijke zin: achteraan.
Is this the car Uncle Herbert drove in? That is the person the police officer was talking to. Possessive 4 Also where and preposition + which can have the function of a relative pronoun. Ook where en voorzetsel + which kunnen fungeren als betrekkelijk voornaamwoord.
Is this the village where / in which the film was shot? 5 When the relative pronoun is possessive, use whose for persons, and of which (or whose) for animals and things. Als het betrekkelijk voornaamwoord bezittelijk is, gebruik whose voor personen en of which (of whose) voor dieren en dingen.
Is this the girl whose necklace was missing? The building of which the doors (whose doors) are open is the place where cars are checked. (Better is: The building with the open doors is the place where cars are checked.)
WB ex. 8.8 WB ex. 8.9 WB ex. 8.10
GRAMMAR PRACTICE GRAMMAR PRACTICE READING COMPREHENSION
You certainly remember an unforgettable experience in your own life. You are to write about it. First decide and note down the writing strategies you will apply.
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Now write about this experience.
To Stonehenge After Jean Philippe finished his White Knuckle Ride, Chantal also tried her luck. The driver who took her in his car had never heard a girl yell so loud during the ride. But Chantal was happy to have tried it nevertheless. Now the party is underway to visit the Stonehenge monument, an hour’s driving to the north of Castle Combe. You are going to listen to the conversation Jean Philippe, Chantal and their uncle and aunt are having in the car on their way to Stonehenge. First decide on the listening strategies you are going to apply. Fill them in, in your workbook. WB ex. 8.12.1
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Now listen to the conversation and do the second part of the exercise. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
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Vocabulary and pronunciation Salisbury [sɔlzbəri] a bank [b4k] (here:) een dijk a ditch [ditʃ] een dijk, een gracht witchcraft hekserij
Stonehenge Stonehenge, the mysterious monument on the Salisbury Plain, has been a tourist attraction for more than 2,000 years. Every year about one million people visit the remains of the most famous prehistoric site in Europe. Archaeologists and other scientists have tried to find answers to the many questions raised by the Stonehenge monument. One thing is certain, however: we will never know everything about it.
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delven, spitten een hoefijzer oprichten een vlot vereren de gedraging uiteenvallen, ontbinden puin, brokstukken beweren, stellen de baarmoeder, de schoot
a fertility ceremony
een vruchtbaarheidsceremonie to penetrate [penitreit] doordringen an arch een boog, een gewelf radiant energy [reidiənt] stralingsenergie an ancestor [nsestə] een voorouder to draw (drew – drawn) uittrekken, ontlokken to argue [aju] argumenteren, pleiten a miracle cure een miraculeuze genezing a relief [rilif] een verlichting, opluchting
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The Cotswolds The picturesque village of Castle Combe is situated on the southern-most edge of the Cotwolds, one of the most beautiful areas in England. Castle Combe is an excellent starting point for exploring the beautiful Cotswold region. Read this text with the help of the vocabulary list. First answer the reading strategy questions in your workbook. WB EXT 8.1
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Vocabulary and pronunciation Gloucestershire [lɒstəʃə] Somerset [s^m{set] Worcestershire [w st{ʃ{] Warwickshire [wɒrikʃ{] to occupy bezetten fertile vruchtbaar a breed [brid] een ras a sheep (pl.: sheep) een schaap thick dik to fare well succes hebben, het goed hebben prosperity [prɒsperəti] voorspoed Burgundy ['b%{ndi] Bourgondië a fleece [flis] een vlies (een afgeschoren, samenhangende wollaag)
to graze [reiz] a hill the wool trade prosperous [prɒsprəs] a merchant to lend (lent - lent) riches the wealth a source of wealth to collapse [kəlps] poverty [pɒvəti] an oxcart to preserve to restore a row to designate
grazen een heuvel de wolhandel welvarend, rijk een handelaar, een koopman lenen rijkdom, weelde de rijkdom een bron van rijkdom in(een)storten armoede een ossenkar bewaren restaureren een rij benoemen
Culture note A “shire” [ʃaiə] is a synonym for a “county” in England. A county can be compared with a province in Belgium more or less. The House of Lords: one of the two parts of the British Parliament. The members are not elected but have positions because of their rank or titles of honour.
Look at the map in your workbook and locate some of the towns and villages that mark the boundary of the Cotswolds. Then read these articles and do the tasks in your workbook. WB EXT 8.2
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a tug o’war a shin a contestant a torchlight fireworks
touwtrekken een scheen een mededinger een fakkel vuurwerk
Culture note a bank holiday: an official holiday when banks and most businesses are closed for a day the Spring Bank holiday: the last Monday in May
Pudding Rules! Between Chipping Camden and the little town of Mickleton, three miles to the north, is the Three Ways House Hotel, housing the famous Pudding Club.
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From an informal fun evening, the club meetings became more and more regular over the years. The Three Ways House Hotel itself has transformed into a pudding paradise with some of its 48 rooms being designed on pudding themes to provide a complete pudding package for visitors. To attend the group’s Friday night meetings, you do not have to be a member, but you do need a reservation. The evening starts at 7:30pm with an introduction to the rules and history of the club. After a choice of three modest main courses the main business of the evening begins when seven traditional puddings are paraded with ceremony - and cheers of anticipation. These will include well known favourites like Sticky Toffee and Date, as well as the more unusual such as Sussex Pond and Lord Randall’s Pudding. Puddings are served with custards and you can eat as much as you like, provided you stick to the rules. For example, you can only have one pudding on your plate at a time. Afterwards you can relax with coffee and tea while casting your vote for “Pudding of the Night”.
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It all started in 1985, when frozen cheesecake and cakes tasting of cardboard d were becoming b i the th dessert choices at restaurants. People from the village would gather at the hotel and complain about the limp, frozen desserts, served at the end of a great English meal. “Instead of complaining about not being able to find the kind of pudding mum made, it was decided that one evening in the month would centre around just traditional puddings. And that is where it all began,” recalls Peter Henderson, the chairman of the Pudding Club.
Cost for the evening’s meal and pudding is 35 pounds. Rumour has it that they will be developing a “Wikipudia” and “iPud“. Of course, you can always browse WikiPIDia and read their pudding recipe of the day. (Abridged and adapted from http://farewelltravels.com/lib_2011-09-21_Cotswolds.html.)
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kaastaart karton verzamelen slap, buigzaam pudding, taart een voorzitter een aanbod in zijn geheel
modest a main course to parade cheers of anticipation custard to cast your vote rumour has it
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Apart from Stonehenge Britain boasts another remarkable historical monument: Hadrian’s Wall, which runs from East to West, from Newcastle to Carlisle, roughly marking the English and Scottish border. It is not as old as Stonehenge, of course, but it also attracts thousands of tourists every year.
Vocabulary frontier [fr^ntiə] empire [empaiə] desert [dezət] isthmus[isTm{s] or [istməs] turret [t^rit] superfluous [supfluəs] mound [m7υnd]
barrier [briə] surveyor [səveiə] mason [meisən] glazier [leiziə] conquest [kɒ4kwest] morale [məral]
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a barrier a surveyor a mason a glazier a conquest to submit the morale
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