Skills tests

2024
Skills tests

LUISTEREN: 26 JANUARI 12.30 UUR, NORMERING

FLYER ADVIESNORMEN KLT ENGELS 2021.INDD (CITO.NL)

SCHRIJVEN: ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY, 90 MINUTEN, VANAF

25 MAART (CTP 6.3)

SPREKEN: BEGIN APRIL (CTP 6.3)

LEZEN: MAANDAG 27 MEI 13.30 – 16.00 (CITO:

CSE BEPAALT 50% VAN JE CIJFER)
Oral exam: In pairs
In pairs

20 minutes
6 articles in
6hand-out
articles in
hand-out

guardian.co.uk
economist.com (mediatheek@murmellius.nl Murmellius2014)
3 articles newyorktimes.com
(min. 800 newsweek.com
words)+ newscientist.com
independent.co.uk
statement bbc.com
boekje mondeling examen klas 6.docx
Oral exam: 1. In the picture: 2.5 minutes
• warming up: describe pictures,
20 minutes symbols, etc,
2. Topical issues: 5 minutes PER PERSON

in pairs • give information about prompts/our

articles
3. Discussion: 7.5 minutes
• Give your opinion about the 3 articles you
have handed in, based on the statements
you have prepared.
• N.B. prepare arguments in favour and
against your statements
1. VOCABULARY
2. GRAMMAR
3. PRONUNCIATION
4. FLUENCY
5. CONTENTS
Mondeling op basis van 9 artikelen in totaal

6 artikelen klassikaal of zelf lezen, a.d.h.v. vragen

3 artikelen zelf verzamelen + stellingen bij maken (in

duo's)
 Women’s Football

• Are you into playing/ watching football?

• What do you know about women’s
football?
• Did you watch the women’s football
World Cup in Australia and New Zealand?
• Are there any differences between men’s
and women’s football?
• Should there be different rules?
 • What records is the women’s football
Should Women’s World Cup setting?
Football Have • Ad for France's women's World Cup tea
m goes viral (youtube.com)
Different Rules from • What did a Norwegian study in 2019
Men’s? conclude?
• What observation did the researchers
start from?
• Which 3 things do they conclude?
• Why are athletics mentioned?
• ‘But changing the rules of a sport is as
much about culture as it is about
science.’ Explain
• Why are boots designed for women
important?
What did director DW Griffith predict in 1924?

Explain the irony in Griffith’s prediction

Why are the following mentioned: The

Witness, How Britain prepared,Top Gun, Third
Cinema/ Battle of Algiers, The Great Dictator.

What is the author’s conclusion?

In 1924, Cinema was hailed
as an agent of world peace
• Griffith has a controversial legacy. Despite criticism,
he was a widely celebrated and respected public
figure during his life, and modern film historians
continue to recognize him for his contributions to
the craft of filmmaking. Nevertheless, many critics
during his lifetime, as well as in the decades since
his death, have characterized him and his work
(most notably The Birth of a Nation) as upholding
white supremacist ideals. Historians frequently
cite The Birth of a Nation as a major factor in
the KKK's revival in the 20th century, and it remains
controversial to this day.
• Russian Propaganda Film Flops HARD (y
outube.com)

• [Best Version] The Great Dictator Speec

h - Charlie Chaplin + Time - Hans Zimme
r (INCEPTION Theme) – YouTube
• Movies that Matter: The Battle of Algier
s (youtube.com)
 • Watch British Council videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUKxr946SI etc.

• A Planning: 5 paragraphs, ‘hamburger’ essay (analysing the question and planning your essay)
• Introduction (1), Body paragraphs (3: 2 arguments in favour + 1
argument against ), conclusion (1). Don’t forget to use topic sentences for paragraphs 2, 3 and 4
to start them off)

• B Thesis statement (opinion and your ideas) and paragraphing (use PEEL = Point,
Elaborate, Example, Link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I6N5tsKhc&t=19s

Writing an • C Introduction (use BAM = Background, Argument, Main Points) and Conclusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WknKWFdUs0&t=39s

argumentative • D Counter paragraph (AKA rebuttal, refutation), to

show both sides and understand the opposing view to make a strong impression on your reader)
essay • E Editing (use reverse HAVOC = Content, Organization, Vocabulary, vary!), Accuracy, Hedging)

• Last but not least:

• Check: spelling, punctuation, grammar, word count

• Don’t use contractions! Do use conditionals, modal verbs, relative clauses, passive voice
and linking words (e.g. However, nevertheless, in conclusion, etc.) though
Argumentative essay
• Write an essay arguing...

1. … that cinema has failed as an agent of world

peace
2. … a film may inspire a country’s people to
resist
3. … women’s football is a game subtly different
– and considerably harder- than the one being
played by men

• Write an English essay of approx. 500 words of

5 paragraphs: introduction, 2 arguments in
favour and 1
argument against, and your conclusion
 Background (fact,
quotation, rhetorical
question)

Argument (main
BAM statement)

Main points
PEEL
• Secondly, even when overweight women are hired for a job, their
weight still affects their career. Thin women are paid better than
overweight women.For example, being obese will cost a woman
around 10% of her income. It is therefore lucrative for a woman to try
as hard as possible to be thin.
• Point
• Elaborate
• Example
• Link
 What is a hamburger essay?

What is BAM

Argumentative
essay What is PEEL

Who are you writing for? What does that tell

you about the language you need to use?
 Exactly 100 years ago, in the year 1924, DW Griffith said,
I quote: “In the year 2024 the single most important
thing which the cinema will have helped in a large way
to accomplish will be that of eliminating from the face of
the civilized world all armed conflict.” In this essay we
will be checking if he was right, did the cinema succeed
in doing so? And was it even meant to?

Introduction In this day and age, cinema has become an essential

part of life, entertaining people around the world.
However, when it was introduced, many people believed
it would be more than just a new art form. These
hopeful people heralded cinema as an agent of world
peace. A hundred years later, it is clear that cinema has
failed in that regard.
 Nikki Haley beats Donald Trump in Washington DC for first
primary victory

ORAL EXAM- ‘In January, it was the most heard song on Earth!’: the amazing
3 articles, 6 story behind Murder on the Dancefloor

statements Ski resorts’ era of plentiful snow may be over due to climate
How to select an crisis, study finds. US ski industry is losing billions as average
season has become five to seven days shorter in past half
article. century

Drag queen storyteller says readings ‘help youngsters discover

true selves’. Aida H Dee’s Tate Britain events attracted rival
protests from a far-right group and counter-protests led by
Stand Up to Racism
 • 29th of March – hand in three articles
including six statements!
• BBC.com
• Guardian.co.uk
• Economist.com (mediatheek@murmellius.nl
– Murmellius2014)
articles
• Newsweek.com
• Newyorktimes.com
• Washingtonpost.com
• Etc.
 • Di 9-4
• 13.00
• 13.30
• 14.00 (3-tal?)
• Do 11-4
• 9.00

Oral exam - • 9.30

• 10.00
planning • 11.00
• 11.30
• 12.00
• Vrij 12-4
• 11.30
• 12.00
• 12.30
Powder Keg
• Here's where all the cases against Donald Trump stand | AP News
• Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election (nbcnews.c
om)
• Donald Trump's fed trial on election interference postponed from March (
usatoday.com)
• Trump's first impeachment took place after a formal House inquiry
found that he had solicited
foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help
his re-election bid, and had then obstructed the inquiry itself by
telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for
documents and testimony. The inquiry reported that Trump withheld
military aid[a] and an invitation to the White House from
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in order to
influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump's
political opponent Joe Biden, and to promote a
discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind
interference in the 2016 presidential election
• The House of Representatives of the 117th U.S. Congress adopted
one article of impeachment against Trump of "
incitement of insurrection", stating that he had incited the
January 6 attack of the U.S. Capitol. These events were preceded
by attempts by Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election, as
well as his pushing of voter fraud conspiracy theories
on his social media channels before, during, and after the election.
[5]
Powder Keg
• Authoritarianism – what does it mean?
• Sitting on a powder keg – explain
• 6 January 2021 – what happened?
• What does Lichtman say about Biden? Why is this the Democratic party's own fault?
• Afghanistan 2021/ migrants / Gaza – how do these influence Biden's reputation?
• What does Andra Gillespie say about Biden?
• What is Biden's potential ace in the hole?
• Wall Street Journal poll: Biden leads: …. Trump leads:….
• What is Setmayer's advice to Biden?
• 'You can't fix age' – explain
• First AI election
Powder Keg
Is Harvard Business School Too Woke?
• Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate
business school of Harvard University, a private
research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

• With an acceptance rate of 11.5%, Harvard Business

School is very selective. This means that out of every
100 applicants, only approximately 11 or 12 are
admitted.
• The cost of tuition for Harvard's MBA program in the
2023-24 academic year is $74,910, totaling $149,820
over two years.
Claudine Gay
• “At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of
Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and
harassment?” Stefanik asked.
• “It can be, depending on the context,” Gay
responded.
• But Stefanik pressed Gay to give a yes or no
answer to the question about whether calls for
the genocide of Jews constitute a violation of
Harvard’s policies.
• “Antisemitic speech when it crosses into conduct
that amounts to bullying, harassment,
intimidation — that is actionable conduct and
we do take action,” Gay said.
Is HBS too
• Should Educational Institutions Be More
Woke? woke?
Loneliness
• Why is London a city of sociable loners?
• Explain 'hakikomori'
• How do researchers define loneliness?
• Isolation seems to be increasing. How?
• Researchers found a correlation between loneliness and health. What did they find?
• Which three theories do these researchers have?
• Is loneliness a phenomenon of the elderly?
• Some groups are more likely to be lonely. Name them.
• What is said about technology?
• What is 'social prescribing'?