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Unit One : our cultural heritage

 Vocabulary of the Unit

Historical monuments Food, clothing and Arts and crafts Geography and
and architecture customs landscape

Volubilis Mint tea carpet making oasis

Hassan tour Tagine pottery dunes
Hercule cave Traditional wear horse riding sea shores
bab Mansour Oranges camel breeding ports
menara Fish folklore mountains
couscous sand dunes

 Functions/communication skills: Expressing opinions and beliefs

Expressions of opinions and beliefs

Asking about opinion or belief Giving answer about opinion or belief

 In your opinions, what/who/where/why…….?  I think that ………………
 What do you think……..?  In my opinion,
 What/who do you believe ………?  As far as I am concerned………………………
 What are your views about ………………..?  To my mind ……………..
 Don’t you think that …………….?  I believe ………………….
 What/who do you think…………..?  For me,……………………

 Grammar: Simple past tense

There two types of verbs in the past simple: Regular and Irregular
Regular verbs are verbs that takes the (ed) when changed to the past simple
 Examples : watch watched
Listen listened
Irregular verbs have no rule
Examples:
Infinitive Past simple
 Do  Did
 Be  Was/were
 Have  Had
 speak  spoke

Use :
We generally use the 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 past simple:
 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 really 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

The definite article is used before singular and plural nouns when the noun is specific or particular. 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.
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 Writing: Punctuation and capitalization

Capitalization Punctuation
1- names of people ( Peter – Asmae – Khalid ) . period (or full stop)
2- name of places , comma
3- countries and cities ; semicolon
4- at the beginning of a sentence : colon
5- titles in reading texts ' apostrophe
6- days and months “” quotation marks double
7- public holidays and feasts ? question mark (or interrogation point)
! exclamation point
8- languages
- hyphen
9- titles of books and magazines
() parentheses (or brackets)
[] brackets, square (or braces)