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.

donderdag 16 juni 2016

Playing Ball

Football fans are having a ball: It’s Euros time! Are you following the European Championship?
This year, Northern Ireland qualified for their first ever European Championship.
In the video, a young boy speaks for all the Northern Irish football fans. They are “the extra man” (de twaalfde man) of the Northern Ireland national football team.

Read the following words and phrases and their definitions.
  • come rain or shine - whether it rains or not; always
  • at the top of your voice - in the loudest way possible
First read the assignment. Next watch the video. Take notes to help you do the assignment.


  1. Complete the second line:
    "We are the North, the South, the East and the West,
    The ..........................................................................."

  2. Fill in the other 3 years the boy says:
    We are the 1958,
    the ...........,
    the ..............,
    the ...............

  3. What colours does the boy mention at the end? Explain why these colours.

Extra assignment for poetry buffs

The first line the boy says bring to mind a line from a famous English poem:

"He was my North, my South, my East and West,"
  1. Go to the internet. 
  2. Find out which famous English poem it is and who wrote it.