ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HOMES - CONNECT PRIMARY 5 Term 2 - خامس ابتدائي

UNIT 7 LESSON 3 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HOMES 1 Work with a partner. Discuss 2 1 What do you think Ancient Egyptian homes were like? 2 Where did people build their homes in Ancient Egypt? 3 What did people use to build their homes? Read the passage. Decide if the sentences are True (T) or False (F). Correct the false ones in your notebook In Ancient Egypt, many people made their homes near the Nile. They used its water for drinking, cooking, and washing. They also used mud from the river to make bricks for their houses. The mud bricks made very strong walls. Ancient Egyptians wanted to keep their homes cool. The mud bricks helped do this. Some people also painted their homes white to make them cooler. Ancient Egyptian homes all had flat roofs, which were the coolest part of the house. Families often cooked, ate, relaxed, and slept there on hot nights. The furniture in Ancient Egyptian homes was very different from today. There were reed mats to sit and sleep on. They used papyrus to cover the windows and doors. This kept the insects outside. In every home, there were large pots and baskets for storing crops and wooden boxes for clothes. Not many people had beds or chairs. In cities, people lived very close together, and so they built their houses taller, with two floors. This saved space so they could build more houses. City houses joined together, just like today. In the countryside, houses usually only had one floor, and they also had a garden. They grew vegetables and kept chickens there. 1 A lot of people made their homes near the Nile. 2 In Ancient Egypt, people used water from the Red Sea for drinking. 10 3 The mud bricks helped Ancient Egyptians to keep their homes cool. 4 The furniture in Ancient Egyptian homes wasn't the same as today. 5 The Ancient Egyptians stored their clothes in metal boxes. 6 The houses in cities usually had one floor only.

Read and listen to the poem By the banks of the ancient River Nile, Egyptian houses had a special style: Dark inside with small windows, Reed mats on the roof where the cool wind blows, Outside under the stars at night, One family together, feeling all right. Mud from the Nile made their walls Safe and strong, and never to fall. 4 Work with a partner. Read the poem again. Underline things in the poem you can see in the picture below 5 Listen and write the labels on the Ancient Egyptian house gate oven pot roof reed mat sleeping area 1 sleeping area 2 3 4 5 6 6 Work with a partner. Ask and answer about what makes Ancient Egyptian homes special The mud bricks made the Egyptian homes strong and cool. Yes. And the flat roofs were nice, too. People slept there on hot nights. UNIT 7 11

UNIT 7 PRONUNCIATION Language focus In English there are words with double vowels, like pool and sheep. When there is a double 'e' in a word, the sound is long, e.g. three, keep, and cheese. When there is a double 'o' in a word, the sound is long, e.g. school, tool, and spoon. 7 Write the double vowel words with ee or oo 12 1 tree 2 sp 3 sh 4 r 6 S 5 S_ 7 9 8 Listen and repeat the words in Exercise 1 Language focus 8 p Saying oo in words When you see oo in a word, you can say /u:/, as in pool and spoon. We can also pronounce oo as a shorter sound, /ʊ/, as in a word like good, or as /^/, as in a word like blood.

9 Listen and write the words you hear. Then listen again and repeat UNIT 7 1 wood 2 3 4 5 6 10 Read. Put the oo words in the correct column in the table. Then listen and check school book flood smooth cook blood food zoo wood wool noon spoon pool good /u:/ school 10/ book ΙΔΙ flood 13