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Summer holidays are fun!
Textbook: p. 67
GoalA story about summer holidays in the past: went, got, ate, came; by train/taxi; sequence.
New words
holiday · ta’tiltrain · poyezdrain · yomg‘ir yog‘moqsea · dengiz
Explanation
We talk about summer holidays in the past: “Last summer we went to Khiva. We got there by plane.” Irregular verbs: go → went, get → got, come → came, eat → ate, see → saw, have → had. Regular: stay → stayed, watch → watched, rain → rained. Negative: “We didn’t go to the market because it was very hot.” Question: “How did you get there?” — “By plane.” Sequence: first, then, after breakfast, in the evening. Weather in the past: it was cloudy, it rained.
Worked examples
Last August we went to Zaamin. We got there by car. In the mornings we walked in the forest. One day we saw a big eagle. In the evenings we sat by the fire with our cousins.
— How did you get there? — By car. — Did you climb the mountains? — Yes, we did. It was hard but great.
Class activity
“My summer holiday”: a pupil tells their holiday in 5 sentences (where, how, what they ate) and the class asks one question.
Practice
1
Past: We go to the sea.
We went to the sea.
2
Negative: We swam in the sea.
We didn’t swim in the sea.
3
Ask: How did you get there?
How did you get there?
4
Why “it was cloudy”, not “it is cloudy”?
The sentence is about the past.