Gateway 1 Unit 5: Celebrations
The vocabulary of the Unit
Religious Celebrations
- Ashoura
- The birth of the Prophet
- Aid Al Adha
- Islamic New year
Local Celebrations
- Imilchil festival
- Festival of roses
- Assila’s Festival
- Wax lantern procession
National Celebrations
- Independence day
- The green march
- The throne day
- the independence day
Foreign Celebrations
- The New year
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving
Functions /Communication Skills: Expressing Promise
Promises can be expressed with one of the following:
- “I promise to come on time“ a student to his teacher
- “ I will take you to the zoo if you keep calm “ a mother to her little son
- She promised not to forget the copybook
- “ I swear, I will come on time “
Grammar
Relative Pronouns
Relative pronouns are used to link/relate two ideas in a one sentence
| The relative pronoun | Refers to | examples |
| Who | Person | The man who is sitting there is my friend’s father |
| Whose | Possession | – The girl whose scarf is blue is my friend – This is George, whose brother went to school with me. |
| Which | Things | The car, which was a taxi, exploded |
| Where | Place | I love the place where I grew up |
| Whom | Persons( generally after prepositions) | This is George’s brother, with whom I went to school. |
| That | Persons/things | I have a friend that I love a lot. She has a car that she cares a lot for |
Passive Voice
Form: the passive of an active tense is formed by putting the verb to be into the same tense as the active verb and adding the past participle of the active verb:
BE + VERB (PAST PARTICIPLE )
- Active: we keep the butter here [ subject + verb + Object ]
- Passive: the butter is kept here [object + BE + VERB (PAST PARTICIPLE ) + subject]
Active tenses and their passive equivalents
Click here to see a full explanation of THE PASSIVE VOICE
Writing
A good paragraph should include at least the following elements:
- A clear topic sentence.
- Enough supporting sentences
- A concluding sentence
- Linking words
- Avoid mistakes in:
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Capitalization
- Grammar
- Spelling
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