Readingmatters F+D

Reading Matter F

(163 woorden) Keuzeopdracht: Diary

Dear Diary,

You will never believe what I have experienced today. I was driving in my new B.M.W.-3.3 Li when I saw a man hitchhiking. He was a small ratty-faced man with grey teeth. His eyes were dark and quick and clever like a rat’s eyes. We drove A hundred and twenty when a police bike forced to stop us. I thought I was going into prison. Then I asked the rat-faced man his real job. At first he wouldn’t say it so I started guessing. After a while he suddenly was holding up a black leather belt in his hand. After that he started to show all kinds of stuff that were mine. He told me he was a fingersmith and that he was going to the horse racings to steal the money from the winners. Also he had taken the officers’ book so I didn’t have to lose my car and didn’t have to pay the fine for speeding. I felt tremendously relieved.

Reading Matter D

(120 woorden) Keuzeopdracht: Interview

How was your dinner by your neighbours, the Gleasons?

It was terrible. At first we didn’t know how to act at a American table. We also weren’t familiar of the food that was standing on the table. And then the worst part came, I pulled the strings out of my stalk. That made quite a noise. Everybody was looking to us zipping our celery strings.

After that, did you eat in a restaurant?

Yes, we went to a French restaurant to celebrate my father’s promotion. It took us fifty minutes to order our food. When our soup came we slurped to show our appreciation. But in America slurping is not appropriate. So the whole restaurant was looking how we slurped.