A Day I’ll Never Forget: in My Personal Life!
Eighth
grade / Unit 5
Dear student, please read the information below and follow the given instructions to complete the exercises related to the topic.
Activity 1: Let´s get into the mood:
Work with your designated partner and play the game “What is it?”, you will be given a word, for example birthday, so you have to describe it, for your partner to guess. Then you switch roles, so both of you can participate.
Activity 2: Now be ready to sing
Listen to the song called “The best day of my life” about different fun situations in daily life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J4k32LhTNw
Please pay attention to the song to distinguish happily moments from the video. you will be asked to talk about an event or happy moment that you cannot forget.
Activity 3: Delight your sight while reading this great short story: “A day I´ll never forget” by Amanda Zondani.
Please read the short story below, then identify unknown vocabulary and use these new words to write 5 sentences related to unforgettable moments in your life.
The day was hot and sunny. I was lying in the front yard on my back when my mother called me inside to have something to eat.
But, I was always a bit of an uncontrollable child – or might I say, a naughty child – when I was growing up. So I pretended that I didn’t hear her. As my mother is a clever mom, she just said: “Okay then. I think that you are going to have to go and buy bread. This time she didn’t say it so gently. This was punishment for not responding when I was called.
So, I quickly went inside. But, it was too little too late. The money was already in my mother’s hands. With a grin on her face, she said: “Better now than when you start to get hungry…”
I started to frown, saying, “Hayi, hayi, hayi, mama!” That is: “No, no, no, mama” in isiXhosa.
My mother’s wonderful grin turned to a frown – a big horrible frown! She spoke in the most horrible voice – I think she sounded like a lion roaring at its prey – letting me know clearly: “Amanda, don’t test or I will…”
Before she even finished her sentence, I ran out of the door, heading straight for the shop.
When I was crossing the road in a hurry, a car came out of the blue and knocked me out.
“Are you OK?” the driver asked with concern. I’m still not sure if those were his exact words because I was dizzy from the car hitting me like a bull tackling the matador in a bull fight.
By the time I realized what had happened, I had run so fast – like a horse in the Durban July – all the way home.
Until this day, I’ve never told my mother about this incident. How strange it is that all my mother noticed was that I was not hungry anymore.
She only said: “What, did you eat from this bread, little child?” I laughed, she laughed.
I will never forget this day.
“Come, my darling, and take a piece of a sandwich or two,” my mother gently called.
Write 5 sentences with the unknown vocabulary from the previous reading:
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Activity 4: Time to Role Play
Work in pairs; interview your partner to fill out the following chart with information related to unforgettable moments in his/her life, be ready to answer the same questions and then work with your peer to create a dialog with the information retrieved. After that each pair takes turns to present the dialog to the rest of the class.
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1. The worst day I´ll never forget
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2. Talk about a memorable
experience in your life. |
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3. I will never forget when… |
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Have fun and do not hesitate to contact teacher Christian in case of questions.
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