CLASSE DE 4è
ANGLAIS CÔTE D’IVOIRE – ÉCOLE NUMÉRIQUE
U I- AT SCHOOL- L 1- Where did you spend your last holidays?
S1
Learning context
After the school holidays, your father sends you to Ghana for your studies. In Ghana,
your new friends ask you to tell them about the activities you did during the holidays.
LESSON CONTENT
Language function Structure / Grammar Vocabulary
Talking about past holiday -Where did you spend your holidays-
experiences. holidays? to spend holidays –
-I spent my holidays in holiday time -
a country side -
Abidjan.
to go hunting - .
-What did you do during the to go fishing -
holidays? to do a holiday job -
-During the holidays, I went to play a tournament:
fishing
A- Vocabulary
Holidays: vacation
To spend holidays is to to have some holidays.
Holiday time is the opposite of school time.
A countryside is a rural area / a village
To go hunting is to go and kill animals in the bush.
To go fishing is to go and catch fish (from the river).
To do a holiday job is to do some small jobs during vacation.
To play a tournament is to participate in a competition (football, handball, etc.).
B- Language function: Talking about past events.
1. Where did you spend your holidays? →I spent my holidays in Abidjan.
2. What did you do during the holidays? →During the holidays, I went fishing in
the lagoon.
• During the holidays, we played a football tournament in my village.
• During the holidays, I helped my father hunting animals in the cocoa
plantation.
• During the holidays, I danced for an artist.
PRACTICE ACTIVITIES.
Activity 1: Complete the sentences with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets.
1- I am Junior. I ………. my last holidays with my parents in a countryside (to
spend).
2- During the holidays last year, we ………. many things (to do).
3- I ………. cards game with my friends yesterday (to play).
Activity 2: Talk about your holiday experiences to the class.
a) Where did you spend your holidays?
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b) What did you do during the holidays?
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S2
Learning context: After the school holidays, your father sends you to Ghana for your
studies. In Ghana, your new friends ask you to tell them about the activities you did
during the holidays.
Language function Structure / Grammar Vocabulary
Speaking about past -What did you do during to help parents at home/ in
holiday experiences the holidays? the plantation - to learn
-During the holidays, I English - to meet new
friends - to sell things - to
went fishing
buy things
A- Vocabulary (Related to different holiday activities)
• To help parents at home is to work with parents.
• To learn English is to study my English lessons.
• To meet new friends is to have new friends.
• To sell things is to give things to people and take money.
• To buy things is to give money to the trader and take things
B- Language function: Talking about past events
‘Wh-questions’ with the past simple tense
Example: What did you do during the holidays?
• During the holidays, I bought new books for 4è.
• During the holidays, I sold things at the market with my mother
• During the holidays, I helped my father in the cocoa plantation.
• During the holidays, I met new friends.
PRACTICE ACTIVITIES.
Activity 1: Put the verbs between brackets in the simple past tense.
1- Last week, I ………… for an artist in a big ceremony (to dance).
2- My friends and I …… hunting rats during the last holidays in my village (to
go).
3- I ………… a wonderful vacation in 2018 (to have).
4- I ………… pleased to spend my holidays in the countryside last year (to be).
Activity 2: Talk about your holidays experiences to the class.
c) Where did you spend your holidays?
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d) What did you do during the holidays?
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S3
COMMUNICATION ACTIVITY
You have just attended the first English class on school holidays. In order to make
sure that you have understood the lesson your teacher asks you to:
1. Say where you spent your holidays
2. Mention the people you met
3. Mention the activities you did.
HOMEWORK
IRREGULAR VERBS TO LEARN
INFINITIVE PRETERIT (past simple) FRENCH
1- To be was (singular) were (plural) être
2- To have had avoir
3- To do did faire
4- To go went aller
5- To spend spent passer du temps dépenser de l’argent
6- To buy bought acheter
7- To drink drank boire
8- To eat ate manger
9- To get got obtenir
10- To give gave donner
11- To learn learnt apprendre
12- To meet met rencontrer
13- To sell sold vendre
14- To speak spoke parler
