9 My Weekend

Unit 9 VOCABULARY 1 1 Listen and read. The weekend is a time to relax and do fun things. Sometimes we stay home. Other times we go out and visit places, play outside, or see friends. eat out, go to the movies, visit a museum, go on a picnic, stay home, go to the beach, lose, win, exciting, interesting, text my friends, busy 2 Listen and say. eat out We eat out on Sundays. go to the movies I like to go to the movies on the weekend. visit a museum Sometimes we visit a museum in the city. go on a picnic Do you want to go on a picnic today? stay home I sometimes like to stay home on the weekend. lose I don’t like it when we lose games. win My soccer team always wins! exciting This is so exciting! Let’s do it again! interesting This is really interesting! Look! text my friends I text my friends on the weekend. busy I am very busy today. I have a lot of things to do! go to the beach I want to go to the beach and swim in the sea today.

SONG 1 Listen. Read and sing. Free Time Free time, free time, free time is great. There is no school, and I can sleep late. In my free time I like to have fun. I throw and catch. I jump and run. What did you do on your weekend? Did you stay at home? Did you have some fun? What did you do on your weekend? Did you go outside and play in the sun? Did you go fishing? Did you play baseball? Did you go walking? What did you do? Did you go swimming? Did you go hiking? Did you go horseback riding? I didn’t go fishing or walking. I didn’t go swimming or hiking. I played a game with my little brother. I went to the movies with my mother. What did you do on your weekend? Did you stay at home? Did you have some fun? What did you do on your weekend? Did you go outside and play in the sun? Did you go fishing? Did you play baseball? Did you go walking? What did you do? Did you go swimming? Did you go hiking? Did you go horseback riding? I stayed at home. I played with everyone. I lost at baseball, but it was fun. I texted friends. I helped cook dinner. When I help out, I feel like a winner. What did you do on your weekend? Did you stay at home? Did you have some fun? What did you do on your weekend? Did you go outside and play in the sun? Free time, free time, free time is great. There is no school, and I can sleep late. In my free time I like to have fun. I dance and sing. I play and run.

GRAMMAR 1 Past simple negative How was your weekend? It was boring. I didn’t do anything special. What did you do? I went to a soccer game. Did your team win? No, they didn’t win. They lost.

VOCABULARY 2 1 Listen and say. go horseback riding Can we go horseback riding one day? go fishing Let’s go fishing tomorrow! go hiking I love to go hiking in the mountains. go swimming Can we go swimming in the river? go ice skating Where can we go ice skating in this town? GRAMMAR 2 go + verb + -ing What do you do on weekends? We usually go hiking. What did you do last weekend? We didn’t go hiking. We went swimming

READING 1 Listen and read. Wow! Look at That! Museums are great places to visit on the weekend. They teach us about the world in fun ways. Many museums have special exhibitions for children. Other museums are ALL for children! Are these dinosaurs escaping from a museum? At The Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, USA, there are giant models of dinosaurs outside. Some of them are running away, and others are looking in through the window! In one exhibit, called National Geographic Treasures of the Earth, you can learn a lot about the history of Egypt. Inside the museum there are real dinosaur fossils, rooms about science, art, culture, history, and much more. You can learn about the stars in the planetarium, you can go to the theater, and you can even go rock climbing!