Bahasa Inggeris notes, module 9

On holiday

Textbook Get Smart Plus 3 (Student's Book), pages 85–94 (Phonics 9 p. 113)

What this chapter covers

I can name holiday words like island, sea, boat, forest, river and beach (pp. 85–86)
I can talk about my holiday with regular past verbs, e.g. "We packed our bags. We sailed a boat." (p. 85)
I can ask and answer "What did you do at the weekend? I went to the forest." (pp. 86–87)
I can use irregular past verbs went, had, took, swam, caught, made, ate, saw, found and bought (pp. 87–88)
I can say what someone did not do with didn't, e.g. "He didn't swim." (pp. 88–89)
I can ask and answer "Did you swim? Yes, I did. / No, I didn't." (p. 90)
I can read a diary and a holiday text and answer questions about them (pp. 88, 91)
I can write a short paragraph about my holiday, using and and but (p. 91)
I can read the story "The Cub" (pp. 92–93)
I can say the nd sound in sand and pond and the nt sound in plant and tent (p. 113)
Value: be helpful and caring; respect and protect wild animals (p. 93)

A holiday is a time with no school, when we go to new places and have fun. In this module you will learn to talk about things that already happened: last weekend, yesterday or on your last holiday. We use the past tense for this.

9.1Holiday words and the song

Pictures of an island, the sea, the sun, a boat and a girl packing a bag — island, sea, sun, boat, pack

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 85.

Word	What it means
island	land with sea all around it
sea	a lot of salty water; we swim and sail in it
boat	we sail a boat on the sea or a river
pack	put clothes and things in a bag before a trip
plane	it flies in the sky; we jump on a plane to go far

Song: The holiday

Two children packing their bags — We packed our bags.

A family getting on a plane — We jumped on a plane.

Two children making a sandcastle in the sun — We jumped on a plane.

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 85.

Regular past verbs: add -ed

For many verbs, the past tense is the verb + -ed: pack → packed. "We packed our bags."

Now	Past (yesterday, last week)	Example
pack	packed	We packed our bags.
jump	jumped	We jumped on a plane.
walk	walked	We walked on the beach.
play	played	On my holiday I played on the beach.
sail	sailed	We sailed a boat.
watch / listen / climb	watched / listened / climbed	I listened to music. I climbed a tree.
pick / cook / look	picked / cooked / looked	We looked at the stars.

The past tense is the same for everyone: I played, he played, they played. No -s!

Change to the past: "We ______ (walk) on the beach."

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We walked on the beach.

9.2What did you do at the weekend?

Pictures of a forest, a girl picking flowers, a river, a fire and a boy catching a fish — forest, pick flowers, river, make a fire, catch fish

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 86.

Smart kids story (p. 86). Anna tells her friend about the weekend. She and Greg went to the forest. Greg's dad took pictures. Anna swam in the river and Greg caught a big fish. Greg's dad made a fire and cooked the fish. It was delicious! Then they picked flowers, but they saw a lot of bees and… poor Greg!

Comic: Anna shows a photo of the forest; Anna swam in the river and Greg caught a fish

Comic: they ate the fish for lunch, picked flowers, saw bees, and Greg has bee stings — Smart kids: a weekend in the forest.

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 86.

Irregular past verbs

Some verbs do not add -ed. They change. Learn them by heart!

Table: What did you do at the weekend? I went to the forest. go went, have had, take took, swim swam, catch caught, make made, eat ate, see saw

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 87.

Now	Past	Now	Past
go	went	catch	caught
have	had	make	made
take	took	eat	ate
swim	swam	see	saw
find	found	buy	bought
is / am	was	are	were

A family walking in the forest — They went to the forest.

Two children picking flowers — They went to the forest.

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 87.

Asking about the weekend

Question	Answer
What did you do at the weekend?	I went to the forest.
	I went to the swimming pool.
	I played with friends.

Two children talking. What did you do at the weekend? I went to the swimming pool.

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 87.

After What did you…? the verb stays plain: "What did you do?" Not ~~What did you did?~~ In the answer, use the past: "I went…"

Who cooked the fish in the Smart kids story?

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Greg's dad. He made a fire and cooked the fish.

Write the past: (a) see (b) eat (c) catch

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(a) saw (b) ate (c) caught

9.3Katie's diary: did and didn't

Pictures for open, closed, find, buy postcards and look at the stars — open, closed, find, buy postcards, look at the stars

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 88.

A diary is a book where you write about your day. It starts with Dear diary, and it uses the past tense.

Katie's diary about a day at the beach, the museum, the shopping centre and the stars — Katie's diary (Language Arts).

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 88.

When	What Katie did	What Katie didn't do
In the morning	went to the beach; found a pretty shell	didn't swim (there was a shark!)
In the afternoon	went to the shopping centre; bought postcards	didn't go in the museum (it was closed)
At night	walked on the beach; looked at the stars

Katie holding a pretty shell — She found a shell.

A shark fin near Katie in the sea — She found a shell.

Katie and her mother buying postcards — They bought postcards.

Katie and her mother looking at the stars at night — They bought postcards.

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 89.

Saying no: didn't

Table: I, He, They didn't swim. didn't = did not

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 89.

Who	didn't	plain verb
I / You / He / She / We / They	didn't	swim. / go in. / buy postcards.

didn't = did not.

After didn't use the plain verb: "She didn't swim." Not ~~She didn't swam~~.

Say what Katie did and didn't do (p. 89)

Katie didn't swim. She found a pretty shell.
She didn't go in the museum. She bought postcards.

Why didn't Katie swim?

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There was a shark in the water.

Correct the mistake: "He didn't went to school."

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He didn't go to school.

9.4Did you…? Yes, I did. No, I didn't.

Table: Did you, he, she, they swim? Yes, I, he, she, they did. No, didn't.

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 90.

Question	Yes	No
Did you swim?	Yes, I did.	No, I didn't.
Did he go to the beach?	Yes, he did.	No, he didn't.
Did she go windsurfing?	Yes, she did.	No, she didn't.
Did they walk on the beach?	Yes, they did.	No, they didn't.

Guessing game (p. 90)

"Is it a boy?" "Yes." "Did he go to the beach?" "Yes, he did." "Did he go windsurfing?" "Yes, he did." "It's Tim." "Yes, that's right."

Ask your friends about their last holiday (p. 94): Did you walk on the beach? Did you sail a boat? Did you swim? Did you take photos? Did you eat fish?

"Did you watch TV yesterday?" Give a short yes answer and a short no answer.

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Yes, I did. / No, I didn't.

9.5Writing: My summer holiday

Tim's project My summer holiday with a photo of Tim holding a starfish on the beach — Tim's summer holiday.

Get Smart Plus 3, Project, p. 91.

Plan your writing with these questions:

Question	Tim's answer
When did you go?	In July.
Where did you go?	To Mexico. I was on the beach all day.
What was the weather like?	It was hot and sunny.
What did you do?	I swam in the sea and sailed a boat. I took a lot of pictures.
Did you like it?	It was great!

Joining ideas: and, but

Writing tip: We use and to talk about the same ideas. We use but to talk about different ideas.

Get Smart Plus 3, p. 91.

Word	Use it for	Example
and	the same kind of idea	It was hot and sunny.
but	a different idea	I didn't buy any postcards, but I bought a big hat.

Model paragraph

In December I went to Langkawi with my family. It was hot and sunny. I swam in the sea and played on the beach. I didn't sail a boat, but I found a pretty shell. It was great!

Choose and or but: (a) I swam ___ played. (b) I wanted to swim, ___ there was a shark.

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(a) and (same idea). (b) but (different idea).

9.6Story time: The Cub

Norman eats breakfast while Lisa looks out at the snow

Norman sees eyes in a dark cave; it is a small bear cub that can't walk

The vet helps the cub and says take it to its mother

The children wait by the cave and the mother bear takes the cub home — The Cub.

Get Smart Plus 3, pp. 92–93.

In December, Norman and Lisa went on a winter holiday with their parents. It was very cold and Norman was hungry all the time.
One day they found a big cave in the mountains. "Ah! A big, black monster!"
But it wasn't a monster. It was a small cub (a baby bear). It couldn't walk. "Let's take it to the vet."
The vet helped. "Can we keep it?" "No, take it to its mother."
The children took the cub back to the cave and waited. The mother bear came and took the cub into the cave. The children were very happy.

Value: Respect and protect wild animals. Be helpful and caring.

Why couldn't the children keep the cub?

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It is a wild animal. The vet said, "Take it to its mother."

9.7Phonics: nd and nt

Some words end with two sounds together. Say them slowly and you can hear both letters.

Letters	Sound	Words from the book	More words
nd	/nd/	sand, pond	hand, bend, band
nt	/nt/	plant, tent	ant, paint, went

In nd words you hear n and then d at the end (sand). In nt words you hear n and then t at the end (tent). The past verb went ends with nt!

Sort the words: hand, tent, pond, plant.

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nd: hand, pond. nt: tent, plant.

Summary

Holiday words: island, sea, sun, boat, plane, pack, beach, forest, river, mountains, cave, shell, postcards, stars.
Regular past (-ed): packed, jumped, walked, played, sailed, picked, cooked, looked, watched, climbed.
Irregular past: go → went, have → had, take → took, swim → swam, catch → caught, make → made, eat → ate, see → saw, find → found, buy → bought, is → was, are → were.
"What did you do at the weekend?" "I went to the forest."
didn't + plain verb: He didn't swim. (didn't = did not)
"Did you swim?" "Yes, I did." / "No, I didn't."
A diary starts with "Dear diary," and tells your day in the past tense.
and joins the same ideas; but joins different ideas.
Phonics: nd (sand, pond), nt (plant, tent).
Value: be helpful and caring; respect and protect wild animals.