Week 22 – Elementary – A Traveller’s Tale
I)
Reading :
1)
Match the pictures and the words: bear / snake /
pigeon / spider / rat / bat
2)
How do you feel about these animals?
3)
Read the story: Help!
Belinda Ramos work for a large
IT company and travels whenever she can. She’s visited Belgium, Lebanon,
England, France, Germany, Japan and Mexico. She’d love to go to Africa one day.
I was in the south of Japan at
the time. One morning, I woke up in my hotel room, opened my eyes and looked
around my room. The first thing I saw was a huge spider on the wall. It was
about ten centimeters across. I hate spiders! I ran out of the room to the
reception desk and shouted for help. “Kuma!” I remembered from my Japanese
lessons that ‘kuma’ means ‘spider’.
“Kuma?” the receptionist said.
“Kuma!” I shouted again. “In
my room!”
“Kuma?”
“KUMA!”
The receptionist looked really
frightened. She picked up the phone and said something quickly in Japanese. About
a minute later – and I’m not joking – a policeman with a gun ran into the hotel
and went into my room. For a minute there was silence but then we heard a
laugh, so we went in. when the receptionist saw the spider on the wall, she
started laughing too. In Japanese, spider is ‘kumo’. ‘Kuma’ means ‘bear.’
4)
What was Belinda frightened of? What was the receptionist
frightened of?
5) Answer the following questions :
1.
Who
took Japanese lessons ? _______________________________________
2.
Who shouted
‘Kuma’ ? ____________________________________________
3. Who
made a phone call? ___________________________________________
4. Who
looked frightened? ____________________________________________
5. Who
went into Belinda’s room first? ___________________________________
6. Who
laughed? ____________________________________________________
6) Have
you ever experienced a mix up in English or French?
II)
Grammar:
1) Articles
Choose
the correct form in the following rules:
-
Use a / the / no article when you talk
about a person or thing for the first time
-
Use a / the / no article when the reader
or listener knows which thing
-
Use a / the / no article when you talk
about things in general
2) You
use the in a lot of fixed expressions and before some adjectives. Add
expressions 1-3 from Belinda's story to the table
Time expressions |
Place
expressions |
Before
some adjectives |
in the
morning at the
weekend at the
moment |
in the
middle of … in the
corner of … at the
end of … |
the
best, the worst, the most the
same the
last, the next |
III) Telling
a story
1) Put
the numbers before the expression that:
1 start a story 2
link a story 3 end a story
Later,… It was two in the morning… It was really strange. …and then …
I was with some friends. In the end,… After that,…
I had a great time. Well, this was a few weeks ago.
2) Look
at these pictures and read Holly's story.
in my car in the Rocky
Mountains in Canada / lots of mountains and trees / see a family of bears,
mother and two cubs / stop car / get out and take photos / cubs look frightened,
mother gets angry / walks towards me / can't open car door…
3) Think
of a good ending for Holly's story. Imagine you are Holly. Prepare to tell the whole
story. Think about:
- the past simple of the verbs [see > saw].
- where to use the [stop the car; the mother bear].
- where to use
storytelling expressions. [Later, ...]
IV)
Homework:
Complete the sentences
with a, an, the, or no article.
1.
When was __________ last time you saw a spider?
2.
Do you like __________ pasta?
3.
Is there _________ art gallery near here?
4.
Can you open __________ door, please?
5.
Have you got ________ pen I can use?
6.
What’s __________ name of the person next to
you?
7.
Do you like ________ cats?
8. What's
_________ easiest language to learn?
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