Unit 3 - Celebrating with friends

Vocabulary: personal information, festivals

Grammar: past simple tense, future plans

Oral production and comprehension: exchanging info with partners about oneself, appreciating other countries' festivities, comparing cultural info

Written production and comprehension: expressing in the past

Pronuntiation: short vowels /ae/ and /e/



1) Match the pictures with the festival date:

Pictures: a Christmas tree, a clock, an Easter egg, a bonfire, a birthday card

Dates: 5th November, 30th March, 25th December, 7th July, 31 December



2) Answer to these questions:

a)What do you do in Holly week?

b) How are you going to celebrate your birthday?

c) What do you do on Christmas day?



3) Read the following text and answer true or false:



Bonfire Night: November 5th

On November 5th every year manu British families have a big firework party with a big bonfire. On top of the fire is a guy. The burn the guy on the bonfire and they light the fireworks. Why?

Well, in 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The soldiers caught him. He did not blow up Parliament. Today we celebrate this with a guy (Guy Falwes), fireworks and a bonfire.



True of false:

1. Guy Falkes blew up the Houses of Parliament.

2. He wanted to do it in 1603.

3. We celebrate on November 5th

4. Children burn a guy on a bonfire.



4) Underline the past perfect forms that you can find in exercise nº 3.



5)Fill in the chart below (with more verbs, the whole irregular verb list)



Present: is ............. come ............... .................. get go

Past: was had .......... did gave ..... .....



6) Listen to a recording and fill in the following chart with the info given by each speaker:

Katy Melanie
Date of birth ............ ............
Age ........ ............
How is she going to celebrate ........... ............
What did she do last birthday ........... .............
What presents did she get ............ ..........
What presents does she want to get this time ............ ...........

7)Answer to these questions:
a)When was your birthday?
b)How old are you?
c)What presents did you get?
d) What did you do?
e) Did you have a good time?

Now, exchange the same information with your peers and get, at least, 3 charts like the one in ex. 6

8)Listen to these words and practice saying them:
/ae/ /e/
have get
had head
that men

9) Listen to these words and place them in the right column: bag, beg, said, sad