PERIOD II: GRADE 9 WEEK 9

PERIOD II: GRADE 9 WEEK 9

MAY23-MAY27

*SESSION 1: Copy the text and develop the exercises.

New year  Day

New Year’s Day is, of course, the first day of the year. It is a national holiday in most countries around the world. It is a time when families get together and celebrate with a meal. Many people make new plans for the rest of the year. These plans are called New Year resolutions. People decide to lose weight, get fit, stop smoking, study English every day or save lots of money. I think most people 

are serious about these plans on January 1st, but then forget about them before the end of the week. Then one year later, it’s New Year’s Day all over again and people make the same resolutions again. I guess people all around the world make the same kinds of plans. I guess they also break their resolutions at the same time.

One thing I like about New Year’s Day are the TV programmers that look back at the previous year. They are like highlights shows of the news. These always remind me how lucky I am because a lot of the news is about wars, famines, natural disasters, plane crashes and other terrible things. The shows also look back at the lives of people who died that year. Hmmm… That all sounds a bit depressing really. But then there are happier things, like the top sports and music stories. Another thing that happens on New Year’s Day is lists. The top ten movies of the year, the ten best sporting achievements of the year, etc. There is even a list for the top ten new English words of the year. Previous winners of this are the words ‘blog’ and ‘podcast’.

Match the following phrases from the article.

Paragraph 1

1.	It is a national holiday	a.	called New Year resolutions
2	It is a time when families get	b.	resolutions again
3.	These plans are	c.	together and celebrate
4.	forget about them before	d.	at the same time
5.	people make the same	e.	the end of the week
6.	they also break their resolutions	f.	in most countries

Paragraph 2

1.	TV programmes that look	a.	a bit depressing
2	These always remind me how	b.	movies of the year
3.	…natural disasters, plane crashes and	c.	lucky I am
4.	That all sounds	d.	back at the previous year
5.	The top ten	e.	ten new English words
6.	a list for the top	f.	other terrible things

Spell the jumbled words (from the text) correctly.

Paragraph 1
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2.	People decide to lose ieghwt
3.	most people are souersi
4.	fergot about them
5.	it’s New Year’s Day all over aaign
6.	arkeb their resolutions
Paragraph 2
7.	look back at the ruiospev year
8.	These always irndme me how lucky I am
9.	other ielretrb things
10.	a bit depressing lyelra
11.	the ten best topnisgr achievements
12.	Previous wsinner SESSION 2: Create Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative be going to sentenes: 1. Buy / a/he/ Car : He is going to buy a car 2.Not/do/homework/Pedro: Pedro is not going to do homework 3.You/English/Learn/? : Are you going to learn English? 4.Movie/Watch/I/tonight 5.Raquel/tennis/not/play 6.Jose/El Tunel/?/read 7.Raul and me/videogames/Play 8.Pablo/Jump/not/from a /Bridge 9.Meet/Pibe Valderrama/You/? 10.My Sister/Soccer/Play 11.Repair/not/Arturo/ Car/The 12.Be/an Architect /You/? 13.My girlfriend/take/I/to the movies 14.Use/i/Not/Computer/The 15.Joe/watch/Ironman/Saturday/This/? 16.Manuela/drive/Pereira/To 17.Daniela/To the/This weekend/not/go 18.make/ Mario/This Friday/? 19.The group/Year/the/win 20.Play/Sebastian/Soccer and Basketball /Play/Not 21.Prepare/My mom /The dinner/? 22. The TV/My brother/ repair/the 23.Cristian/a book/not/read 24. Go/mass/to the/my family/? 25.Michel/to work/drive/Today 26. Write/not/a diary/Eva 27.You/Turn off/the computer/? 28.The soccer match/watch/they SESSION 3: ORAL PRESENTATION Learners perform oral presentation in which they talk about waht they expect in a near furute: EXAMPLE: I am going to get along with my parents. I amd going to be a better student I amd going to have a good career and earn money for my family