Engels - Unit 3-6 Flashcards
Wat is een gerund?
de ing vorm van een werkwoord
bv Playing these songs live would have been impossible.
Wat is een hyperbole?
Een overdrijving / an exaggeration
Wat is een ‘assonance’?
Woorden dat de zelfde klanken hebben. (zelfde klinkers)
Bv Pretty Lilly
Hoe vorm je een passive voice?
to be + past participle (pp)
Present simple to be
i am
you are
he/she/it is
…
present continuous
i am … (going)
you are … (going)
he/she/it is … (going)
present perfect simple
I have … (been)
you have … (been)
he/she/it has …(been)
present perfect continuous
i have been … (going)
you have been … (going)
he/she/it has been … (going)
past simple to be
I was
you were
he/she/it was
past continuous
I was … (going)
You were … (going)
He/she/it was … (going)
past perfect simple
I had … (gone)
you had … (gone)
He/she/it had … (gone)
past perfect continuous
I had been … (going)
You had been … (going)
He/she/it had been … (going)
futur simple
I will … (go)
you will … (go)
he/she/it will … (go)
In welke tijden heb je geen passive voice?
present perfect continuous en past perfect continuous
Wat is een mellotron?
A sampling keyboard developed in the Uk in the 1960s.
Each key is connected to a tape with an 8 second recording. When you press a key, tha particular tape is played. Each tape has an authentic recording of the note played by the actual instrument.
The Mellotron sound are still used and loved today, becuase people love the imperfect sound of it.
Wie is Warsan Shire?
A young Kenyan-born, London-raised writer. She drafted a poem about the refugee experience in 2009 after spending time with a group of young refugees who had fled troubled homelands including Somalia, Eritrea, Congo and Sudan.
Shire was named the first young poet laureate for London, aged 24, and has won numerous awards; she also teaches workshops.
She has inspired a lot of people. Beyoncé is one them. She used Warsan’s poetry in some of her songs.
Wanneer gebruik je ‘by’?
Wanneer je praat over de bekende vromen om je te verplaatsen. (geen article, nenkel by)
bv. by bike, by car, by plain, by train, by shipt, …
UITZONDERING: on foot!
Welke modals kan je gebruiken om degrees of certainty te expressen?
- must, will (almost certain)
- can, could, may (likely or possible)
- might (uncertain)
- can’t, couldn’t (completely impossible)
Welke adverbs kan je gebruiken om (un)certainty te expressen?
surely, probably, perhaps, maybe
Wie is Rupi Kaur?
Indian-born (1992) Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author.
Kaur rose to fame on Instagram and Tumblr through sharing her short visual poetry. She received widespread popularity after the publication of her debut book Milk and Honey (2014), wich went on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the New York Times Best seller list.
Wat zijn question tags?
zoals:
You write a lot of poetry, DON’T YOU?
Young people really enjoy you poetry, DON’T THEY?
of andere zoals: have you, did you, can’t you, aren’t you, …
Background info over The Beatles
- English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
- members: John Lennon (guitar player), Paul McCartney (bass guitar player), George Harrison (guitar player), Ringo Starr (drummer)
- They’re regarded as the most influential band of the rock ‘n’ roll era. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity was named ‘Beatlemania’. They broke up in 1970.
Who is Jack the Ripper?
- Victorian serial killer
- active in the so-called Autumn of Terror in 1888.
- one of the most written-about true-crime subjects
- someone who investigates the Ripper case = a ripperologist
- mutilated young women in London
Wat zijn relative clauses?
- give information about people or things
- bv who, that, wich, where, whose, when, why, to, …
Ex: Did you see the man that Mary Kelly was talking TO?
Ex: I saw a man WHO looked just like a sailor.
Ex: Jack used a knife WICH had a lon, sharp blade
