Gateway 1 Unit 1 our Cultural Heritage

Wikipedia:

Morocco has a multi-ethnic society and rich culture, civilization, and etiquette. Throughout Moroccan history, Morocco has hosted many people, in addition to the indigenous Berbers, coming from the East (Phoenicians, Arabs), South (Sub-Saharan African), and North (Romans, Vandals, Spanish-Andalusians both Muslims and Jewish). All of these have left an impact on the social structure of Morocco. It has also hosted many beliefs, from Paganism, Judaism, and Christianity to Islam. Each region possesses its uniqueness, contributing to the national culture. Morocco has set among its top priorities the protection of its diversity and the preservation of its cultural heritage.

Vocabulary 

Historical Monuments and Architecture

  • Volubilis
  • Hassan Tour
  • Hercule Cave
  • Bab Mansour
  • Menara

Food

  • Mint tea
  • Tagine
  • Traditional wear
  • Oranges
  • Fish
  • Couscous

Arts and Crafts

  • Carpet Making
  • Pottery
  • Horse Riding
  • Camel Breeding
  • Folklore

Geography and Landscape

  • Oasis
  • Dunes
  • Sea Shores
  • Ports
  • Mountains
  • Sand Dunes

Functions/Communication Skills: Expressing Opinions and Beliefs

Asking about Opinions or Beliefs

  • In your opinion, what/who/where/why…….?
  • What do you think……..?
  • What/who do you believe ………?
  • What are your views about ………………..?
  • Don’t you think that …………….?
  • What/who do you think…………..?

Giving Answers about Opinions or Beliefs

  • I think that ………………
  • In my opinion,
  • As far as I am concerned………………………
  • To my mind ……………..
  • I believe ………………….
  • For me,……………………

Grammar

Simple Past Tense 

There are two types of verbs in the simple past: Regular and Irregular

Regular verbs are verbs that take the (ed) when changed to the past simple

Examples:

watch →  watched

Listen  listened

Irregular verbs have no rule

Examples: 

do → did

be → was/were

have → had

speak → spoke 

The use of Simple Past Tense 

We generally use the simple past tense to talk about:‎

‎ 1.‎ something that happened once in the past/ for a finished action in the past‎

• I met my wife in 1983.‎

• We went to Spain for our holidays.‎

• They got home very late last night

Time expressions used with simple past

• Yesterday

• three weeks ago

• last year, month, week, hour ………‎

• in 2002‎

• the previous week, lesson, month…………‎

Articles: A / an / the 

  • Indefinite articles: A / An 

“A” and “an” signal that the noun modified is indefinite, referring to any member of a group. For example:

“My daughter wants a dog for Christmas.” This refers to any dog. We don’t know which dog because we haven’t found the dog yet.

  • Definite Article: The

When the noun is specific or particular, the definite article is used before singular and plural nouns. The signals that the noun is definite, that it refers to a particular member of a group. For example:

“The dog that bit me ran away.” Here, we’re talking about a specific dog, the dog that bit me.

Writing: Punctuation and Capitalization 

Capitalization

1-‎ Names of people ( Peter – Asmae – Khalid )‎

‎2-‎ Name of places ( Hassan Tower – Jamaa Lfna…)

‎3-‎ Countries and cities ‎(Morocco – Rabat – Kenitra…)

‎4-‎ At the beginning of a sentence.

‎5-‎ Titles in reading texts.

‎6-‎ Days and months ( Monday – Friday – February …..

‎7-‎ Public holidays and feasts ( The Independence Day – The Green March….)

‎8-‎ Languages ( Arabic – English – French ….)

‎9-‎ Titles of books and magazines ‎(LBoîte à Merveilles – Romeo and Juliet…)

Punctuation

‎.‎ Period (or full stop)‎

‎,‎ Comma

‎;‎ Semicolon

‎:‎ Colon

‎‘‎ Apostrophe

‎ “..”‎ Quotation marks 

‎?‎ Question mark (or interrogation point)‎

‎!‎ Exclamation mark

‎-‎ Hyphen

‎ ( )‎ Parentheses (or brackets)‎

‎[ ]‎ Brackets, square (or braces)‎

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63 COMMENTS

  1. Email page 19 unit 1 our cultural heritage

    • Email page 19 unit 1 our cultural heritage

  2. Thanks a lot can you pleas add Quizs please

  3. Page 17 and Thank you it is very Good

  4. thanks a brunch for your great effort could you please give us the lesson plan for gateway 1

  5. Abdessamad abidar Abdessamad abidar

    Thank you so much you’re better than my teacher in the class hahahaha

  6. السلام عليكم أستاد الله إجازيك بخير إلى كان ممكن بغيت ص 15 محتاجا ليها

  7. يونس باعدي يونس باعدي

    ممكن نصائح تعلم الإنجليزية بسرعة جزاك الله خيرا شرفت المغرب أخي ممكن رد

  8. Thank you very much Sir. If you don’t mind Sir, I have a request, would you please provide me with the names of the Authors of the textbook “Gateway to English 2”? I’ll be grateful. Thank you in advance Sir

    • @Highest tower.
      Their names are:

        Mohammed HASSIM
        Mustapha Blibil
        Abdelkarim Rasmy
  9. Hi teacher. Thank u for ur efforts. But I can find nothing about ” Are u for or against the cultural heritage ” and I have it as a homework. Can u help me ?
    Thanks again.

  10. Hello sir, thanks a lot for your efforts, I really appreciate it. keep up 🙂

  11. Hi Mr. Nabil!
    Thanks for the invaluable effort; it’s noble of you to create such a helping resource for the ELT community.

    (I would like to draw your attention to the second column in the 1st chart, which I think should say something like: Food, Clothing and Customs).

    Thank you

  12. Bunch of Thnxx fr the efforts 🙂 .. Any good suggestions on hw to teach the vocab of this unit ? !!

  13. salam Brother Nabil
    I hope you’re doing great. I’d like to thank you for the good job you did here.
    I wish you good luck

  14. thank you so much for the efforts you invested in doing this amazing job .
    Are there any lesson plans for these units ?

  15. really you are awsome. thanks brother. may allah reward you greately for the work

  16. Salam aleikul Brother. May Allah Bless you, your beloved ones, and the whole Ummah. We’re in dire need for Gateway 1 lesson plans. Please let us know if you upload any..the sooner the better inshaa’Allaah. keep going!

  17. tbarkellah 3lik . please Ineed english lesson plan for gateway 1 . thanks in advance

    • Allah ybark fik Miss khadija. I on’t have them right now but once ready I’ll let you know.just keep visiting here.

  18. Thanks a bunch Mr.Nabil for your efforts .THERE IS A MISTAKE IN (ABOUT THE AUTHOR) YOU WROTE ….. a teacher who have been teaching .I think it should be ….. a teacher who HAS been teaching

    • With pleasure 🙂
      As for what you thought is a mistake, in fact it is not.
      Why?
      because “I am a high school English Teacher who have been teaching over more than 11 years now. ”
      that sentence normally is : I am a high school English Teacher + I have been teaching over more than 11 years now. those two sentences I joined them in one using the relative pronoun “who”. That “who” replaces the “I”. Thus “I have been” = “who have been”.
      And thanks a lot for your remark 🙂

  19. salam.wach momkin t3tini had dars bghit ntelechargih

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