Literature - Hello! Beyond Words Term 2 - أول اعدادي

UNIT 5 Literature 12 Lesson objectives: • Read and understand a story about an unusual vacation • Notice and use punctuation, including speech marks, in stories 1 Read the description of an Al-generated city tour and answer the questions. Al City Breaks Are you planning to visit a new city? Don't spend time reading travel guides and looking at websites. It can take hours to plan what to do and how to travel. Just type the place you're visiting into our app, and let Artificial Intelligence do the hard work! 1 What does the advertisement suggest people do? 2 Why should they do this? 3 Do you think this is a good idea? Why / Why not? 2 Look at the photo. Do you know where this is? Read and listen to the story. Check your answer for Exercise 2. 3 Last year, my family and I decided to visit Cape Town in South Africa. It's famous for amazing landscape, beautiful buildings, and of course the incredible Table Mountain. My mom bought some guidebooks. "Why have you got those?" asked Dad. He showed us his phone, and some paper. "I asked Al to plan a city break for us in Cape Town. Here it is! There's a list of places we should see on my phone. I printed it too, in case our phones didn't work!" "That's amazing!" said Dad. "Where are we going first?" "I want to learn about Cape Town," said Mom. "That's "It says we start at a museum which is near the hotel," the best way to see everything!" Mazen said. "They're big and heavy," said Dad. "We can't carry them everywhere. We can use our phones to find maps and information online." We had to hurry round the museum because Mazen wanted to go to a large street market next. "We can't miss that," he said. The market was great, but I was "It still takes time to find information online," said Mom. getting hungry. We walked past a stall selling hot food. "And the maps are very small!" "You're right," said Dad. "Can I get something to eat?" I asked. "We haven't got time-sorry!" said Mazen. "We're eating My brother Mazen smiled at me. "I have an idea!" he in one hour in Greenmarket Square. We're going to a big aquarium first." said. *** We hurried around the city, going past lots of interesting When we arrived in Cape Town, we took a shuttlebus stores and beautiful streets, before we got to the from the airport to our hotel. It was lovely, with beautiful rooms, but we were all tired after the trip. Mom and Dad put the books on the table. Mom looked at them and laughed. "I don't think I do want to carry these now! Can we use your phone?" aquarium. "The aquarium is amazing, Mazen," said Mom. "But I think we're a long way from our hotel now." Mazen looked at his map. "Oh yes," he said. "I don't think I told Al where to finish Dad looked worried. "I used it too much on the trip," he the tour." said. "It isn't working." "Well - we've seen some amazing things. Thank you, and thank you to your Al app! But maybe tomorrow we'll have a slower day!" said Mom. "Oh no!" said Mom. "There's so much to see - I don't Mazen want to miss anything!" Mazen laughed. "I can help!" he said. 76

4 Read and listen to the story again. Number the places in the order they visit. Put a cross (X) for the places where they don't stop. 1 a large street market 2 beautiful streets 3 a stall selling hot food 4 a big aquarium 5 a museum 5 Read the story and underline examples of punctuation for: 1 adding emphasis to a thought or idea (showing surprise or excitement) UNIT 12 2 asking a question 3 a person speaking 6 Read the sentences. Circle T (true) or F (false). 1 Dad bought some guidebooks. 2 Mazen has an idea. 3 Dad's phone isn't working. 4 Mazen only has the information on his phone. 5 At the end of the day, they are a long way from the hotel. 7 Match items (1-5) to descriptions (a-e). 1 landscape in Cape Town 2 guidebooks 3 online maps 4 the hotel rooms 5 the stores they walked past a small b beautiful c big and heavy d interesting e amazing T/F T/F T/F T/F T/F BOOK CLUB Discuss these questions in pairs or small groups. • To find out about a new place, do you prefer Mom's idea of using guidebooks or Dad's idea to use a phone? • What are the problems with each idea? • Why does Mazen think that Al can help them? What problems do they have as they go around the city? Do you think it helped to use Al, or not? 77