Actueel lesmateriaal voor lesmethodes Engels van Malmberg

Welkom op de blogspot Engels van uitgeverij Malmberg voor gebruikers van All right!, Realtime en Of Course! U vindt hier actuele video's voorzien van opdrachten, voor verschillende vaardigheden en op verschillende ERK-niveaus. Leuk én leerzaam om de les mee te beginnen of af te sluiten!
Daarnaast maakt Malmberg verschillende keren per jaar een actuele leesopdracht voor Engels, afwisselend op niveau A2, B1 en B2. U vindt ze hier.

vrijdag 10 november 2017

Guinness World Records Day

Thursday 9 November was Guinness World Records Day. Thousands of incredible titles were broken all over the globe.

Read the following words and phrases and their definitions.
  • to witness - to see something happen
  • attempt - act of trying something
  • sense the energy - feel the energy
  • pushing boundaries - trying to do things that go further than people think is possible
  • frontier - limit of how far people have gone in a particular field
First read the assignment. Next watch the video. Take notes to help you do the assignment.

  1. What record did Richard Browning try to set?

  2. How heavy is Richard Browning’s equipment?

  3. What did Richard have to do to set a record?
    Name two criteria.

  4. This year, Richard Browning set a record. Now he wants to smash a record.
    Explain the difference between the two underlined expressions.

  5. What are Richard Browning's plans for “the next big frontier”?

Extra words assignment
For the following words, write down a word in the video with (almost) the same meaning.
- observe
- thrilling
- pleasure
- boundary