How I spend my time - Hello! Beyond Words Term 1 - أول اعدادي

UNIT 3 My time Unit objectives Reading: An email about ways to spend your free time; A letter to a problem page; An Unusual Hobby: a short story Listening: A dialog about free-time activities Speaking: Talking about ways to spend your free time Writing: A forum post about finding friends with similar interests Language: The present continuous tense; Subject and object pronouns 1 How I spend my time Lesson objectives: Read and understand an email about ways to spend your free time • Learn vocabulary for free-time activities • Scan a text for key words: nouns and verbs Think! How do you spend your free time? Do you think you use your free time well? Why or why not? Match the free-time activities (1-6) to the pictures (a-f). Then listen and repeat. 28 1 1 spend time with family 3 learn new skills 5 take regular exercise a d 2 write a journal 4 help in the community 6 walk in nature b 2 Write which activity each sentence describes. f 1 You do things for other people where you live. 2 You visit and enjoy parks, lakes, or other green spaces. 3 You do sports or other healthy activities. 4 You do activities with your parents, grandparents, brothers, and sisters. 5 You take courses to find out how to do different activities. 6 You describe your thoughts and activities in writing.

3 Read and listen to the email. How does Mahmoud start and end his day? UNIT 3 Subject: RE: Hello new friend 01 M From: Mahmoud To: Asser Hi Asser, Thanks for your email! You asked me about my free time. This is an important year at school and I don't have much free time, so I like to use it well! In the mornings before school, I write a "To do" list of things I need to do. It really helps me to organize my day. After school, I do different things. It's important to take regular exercise, so on Tuesdays and Thursdays I play football with my friends. I like playing with them! They help me a lot. I also like to learn new skills, so I go to evening classes. At the moment, I am learning first aid! I want to be able to help people. On the weekends, I spend time with my family. We like to go for walks in nature. We don't take our phones, so we can enjoy what is around us. There are some really lovely parks and gardens in this city. Sometimes my brother and I help in the community. He is a chef, and we help to make food for hungry people at his restaurant. I love to learn recipes from him. My mom is a good cook, too. I think my brother learned a lot from her! Every night, before I go to bed, I write a journal. It helps me to think about what I have done and focus on good things. I think it helps me to sleep better, too! Tell me how you spend your free time. Maybe I can get some good ideas! Bye! Mahmoud 4 5 6 Read questions (1-5) and underline the question words. Think: what type of key words do you need to find to answer each question? 1 On which days does he play football? Tuesdays and Thursdays (nouns) 2 How does Mahmoud learn new skills? 3 Who does he spend time with on the weekends? 4 What do Mahmoud and his brother do? 5 Where does Mahmoud help people in the community? Answer the questions in Exercise 4. Work in pairs. Talk about how you spend your free time. I spend my free time reading books and helping my dad in his shop. How do you spend your free time? I spend my free time with my friends and playing table tennis. 7 Tell the class how your partner spends his or her free time. Shereen spends her free time with her friends and playing table tennis. Scanning for key words: nouns and verbs Key words are usually nouns (numbers, names, places, and things) or verbs (actions). To find key words, you don't need to read and understand every word in the text. Practice looking quickly through the text and underlining them. Then, look at the question and underline the question word in it. This will tell you what type of word you need to answer the question. 29