Focus words UNDERSTANDING 1 Work with focus words This year is your last year in lower secondary school. In the months ahead, it is important to stay focused, even if certain topics don’t appeal to you. Your teachers’ purpose is to lead you and support you in the best way they can, but in the end, your education, your learning, is in your hands. You might already be convinced about which line of study you should choose for next year, while your family or friends may try to persuade you to choose differently. Remember that you don’t have to follow in the footsteps of others. a) Write down the focus words you find. b) Which of the focus words are missing? Write them down. c) Translate these words into Icelandic: to convince, convinced. Decide which word class they belong to. d) Translate the rest of the focus words into Icelandic. Write down your translations. Reading the words in context can help you with your translation. Read the whole sentence and even the one before and after. TALKING 2 Work with words Work in pairs. Tear or cut a piece of paper into four. Write each of the following instructions on a separate piece of the paper: spell, define in English, translate, use in a sentence. Put the instructions face down on a table. lead speak persuade convince Hæfniviðmið • Lesið, skilið og unnið með fjölbreyttan orðaforða úr ýmsum textum.
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