UNIT

7
TRAVEL/HOLID
AYS

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Warm- Up Questions:
 When was your last holiday?
 What was your best destination for holiday?
 Did you spend your holiday with your family?
 Did you enjoy your holiday?
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Activity 1
Learning Vocabularies
The following are vocabularies that have related to Travel/ Holidays. Please
find the definition for each word!

 Destination  Waterfall
 Accommodation  Tickets
 Journey  Camp
 Trip  Packing
 Tourists  Rent
 Homestay  Suitcase
 Visitor  Check-in
 Beach  Check-out
 Mountain

Grammar and Language Focus

 The Simple Past Tense

This tense is used to indicate an action, event or condition that has
happened in the past

a. Nominal sentence pattern:

(+) S + be [was/were] + Noun/adjective
(-) S + be [was/were] + not + Noun/ adjective
(?) Be [was/were] + S + Noun/Adjective?

You I
We were She Was
They He
It

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Examples:

1. (+) Marzuki was a pilot last year

(-) Marzuki is not a pilot last year
(?) Was Marzuki a pilot last year?

2. (+) They were very sad yesterday.

(-) They were not very sad yesterday.
(?) Were they sad yesterday?

3. (+) She was in America three days ago

(-) She was not in America three days ago
(?) Was she in America three days ago?

b. Verbal sentence pattern:

(+) S + V2 + O + Comp
(-) S + did + not + V1 + O +
Comp (?) Did + S + V1+ O +
Comp?
Examples:
1. (+) She went to Jakarta last Sunday
(-) She didn‟t go to Jakarta last Sunday
(?) Did she go to Jakarta last Sunday?

2. (+) I visited Siak Palace two weeks ago

(-) I didn‟t visit Siak Palace two weeks ago
(?) Did I visited Siak Palace two weeks ago?

3. (+) They booked a bus last weekend

(-) They didn‟t booked a bus last weekend
(?) Did they booked a bus last weekend?
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I was very happy last week, because I went to Jakarta and I met
my grand parents

Meet , met

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