Gateway 1 unit 5: celebrations
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Vocabulary of the unit
| Religious celebrations | Local celebrations | National celebrations | Foreign celebrations |
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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 copybook
- “ I swear , I will come on time “
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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 friendThis 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 lotShe 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
| Tense/verb form | Active form | Passive form |
| Present simplePresent continuousPast simple
Past continuous Present perfect Past perfect Future simple Conditional Perfect conditional Infinitive Modals |
KeepsIs keepingKept
Was keeping Has kept Had kept Will keep Would keep Would have kept To keep Must /can… keep |
Is keptIs being keptWas kept
Was being kept Has been kept Had been kept Will be kept Would be kept Would have been kept To be kept Must/can… be kept |
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Writing
A good paragraph should include at least the following elements:
- A clear topic sentence.
- Enough supporting sentences
- Avoid mistakes in :
- Spelling
- punctuation
- capitalization
- grammar
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Thanks teach ♥️
Thanks so much si Nabil
Thinks trachée Nabile
THANKS TECH NABIL
special thanks bro
My pleasure
My pleasure dear anonymous
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thanks a lot for your effort
it’s a duty . you are welcome 🙂