• Reading, writing

• News, Germany, missing, woods

• B2

• Beantwoorden vragen, schrijven reactie, invullen werkwoorden

• Individueel

• 15/30 minuten

Een 17-jarige jongen wordt gevonden in Duitsland. Hij spreekt Engels en zegt vijf jaar in de bossen te hebben geleefd. Maar is dit waar?

Dit is een lange, niet al te moeilijke tekst over een mysterie in Duitsland. Naast het oefenen van de leesvaardigheid kun je naar aanleiding van deze tekst ook de onregelmatige werkwoorden herhalen.

Leerdoelen

• Je traint je leesvaardigheid.

• Je oefent met de onregelmatige werkwoorden.

Vragen aan de klas

1. Why is Ray referred to as an “ordinary boy” at first by the civil servant?

2. In the paragraph “Even more [...] the shelter,” the author expresses amazement over Ray’s journey through Berlin. Why do you think she listed all these landmarks in Berlin?

3. Which of the three theories is explained most thoroughly in the text? Write down the sentence from the text that best summarises this theory.

4. Explain in your own words what fugue syndrome is.

5. Why is the paragraph “Germany still [...] Saxon Siberia” not really relevant to this article?

Actieve werkvormen

Lestip 1: Your opinion, please

Je kunt Ray's story geloven, of niet. Vraag de leerlingen wat zij denken. Laat ze hun mening in ongeveer 100 woorden opschrijven.

Explain in your own words what your opinion is with regards to Ray’s story. Write in English and don’t copy words or parts of the text. Use 80 - 100 words.

Lestip 2: Irregular verbs

Herhaal de onregelmatige werkwoorden door de werkwoorden te laten invullen in zinnen uit de tekst.

Fill in the irregular verbs.

1. He ... (speak) about his parents, in English and stilted German.

2. Nothing about him ... (strike) her as extraordinary.

3. He said his name was Ray, he ... (wear) a clean white sweatshirt, and he carried a rucksack and a sleeping bag.

4. It was only when the lad ... (speak) that the middle-aged civil servant realised this was no ordinary 17-year-old.

5. "I'm all alone in the world," he ... (tell) her.

6. Those hesitant, but clearly spoken words ... (be) to signal the start of a mystery.

7. Ray's story feeds the myths that have surrounded them since people ... (choose) to settle in villages and towns.

8. "I printed off a map for him and ... (write) some instructions.”

9. He successfully ... (find) his way to the Jugendnotdienst emergency youth shelter.

10. Ray ... (go) on to tell officers that his father had recently died in a fall.

11. He exhibited no disorientation, ... (sleep) normally in a bed and seemed happy taking regular showers.

12. He has ... (be) visited by police officers, language experts.

13. There is also the possibility that Ray in fact suffered some trauma that ... (lead) him to adopt the identity of a "forest boy".

14. It is ... (understand) that a tabloid was allowed to look at a photograph of Ray.

15. It is this lack of detail that has now ... (begin) to raise doubts about its veracity.

16. No hikers or forest rangers have ... (come) forward to report having seen a man and his son living in a forest.

17. No villagers reported instances of animals, fruit or vegetables being ... (steal) from their plots.

18. He and his father may have ... (spend) just part of this time in the woods.