Vacation activities - Hello! Beyond Words Term 1 - أول اعدادي

UNIT 1 A great summer Unit objectives Reading: A blog post about summer vacation activities; Forum posts about summer vacation activities; A quiz about how you spend your summer; Hana Goda: a biography Writing: An informal email to a friend. Listening: Understand conversations about summer activities. Speaking: Play a guessing game about summer vacation activities; Ask and answer questions about how often you did something Language: The past simple tense; Adverbs of frequency with the past simple tense 1 Vacation activities Lesson objectives: Read and understand a blog post about summer vacation activities • Learn vocabulary for summer vacation activities 1 Guess the meaning of new words Think! What makes your summer "great"? What activities do you like to do? Look at the photos and activities (1-5). Write the number of the activity in which you .. . a help your parents and grandparents at work. b help to make your local area better. 1 c write something using computer software. 1 play in a tournament d take part in games with other teams. e teach people how to do something new. 2 4 3 4 5 volunteer at a community garden teach adults to read and write Arabic help out at your family's workshop write stories using Al 2 Work in pairs. Ask and answer. Which activities do you do? Which activities would you like to do? Which activities do you do? I play in tournaments and I help out at my family's workshop.

3 Read and listen to Omar's blog post. Which activity from Exercise 1 does he mention? How does he feel about it? Hi, I'm Omar! This summer was great. I played football every day! At first, I played with some of my neighbors in the street. Our street is quiet and very safe. We had a lot of fun and we liked to imagine that we were famous football players! Then, a new boy joined in. He told me about a football club in our area. One afternoon, I decided to go to the club. There were lots of boys playing in two teams HOME | ABOUT | DOWNLOAD and I watched them for a while. Then, the coach saw me and asked if I played football, too. "Do you want to try playing with the team?" he asked. Of course, I did! The coach watched me kick the ball and said I was a talented football player. He asked me to join the team. For the next six weeks, I played with my neighbors in the morning and then with the team at the football club in the afternoon. It was very tiring, but really fun! At the end of the summer, we took part in a tournament. I was nervous about it, but excited. I tried my best and scored three goals! Our team won the tournament. It was an amazing end to the summer! 4 Read again and answer the questions. 5 1 Where did Omar play football at the start of the summer? 2 Who told Omar about the football club? 3 Why did the coach ask Omar to join the team at the sports club? 4 How many goals did Omar score in the tournament? Find the words in the blog post. Write N (noun), V (verb), or A (adjective) for each word. 1 imagine 2 talented 3 coach 4 tiring 5 tournament 6 Work in pairs. Work together to guess the meanings of the words (1-5) in Exercise 5. Guessing the meaning of new words When you find a new word, first try to understand what type of word it is. Does it describe a person or a thing (a noun), or an action (a verb)? Other words in the sentence can help you. For example, before a noun we usually find an article (a tournament, the game), an adjective (new friends) or a verb (I played football). You can use the meaning of these other words to help you find the meaning of the new word. 5 UNIT 1