8.2 Reading / Listening 1: After Vacation
“بعد از تعطیلات”
Learning Objectives
- You will learn vocabularies related to vacation and trip.
- You will learn to talk about recent event in the past tense.
Pre-Reading/Listening Activities:
(a) Please recollect the memories of your last trip and make a list of the places you went, food that you ate, and things that you did.
(b) Please share your vacation details with your friend, and ask hers/his.
Reading:
Context: Shahnaz, Peter, and Nikki meet in school after the summer vacation.
| Hello Shahnaz, how are you? | سلام شهناز. چطوری؟ | :پیتر |
| I am well. How are you? | من خوبم. تو چطوری؟ | :شہناز |
| I, too, am well. How was your summer vacation? | من هم خوبم. تعطیلات تابستانت چطور بود؟ | :پیتر |
| My summer vacation was very good. I went to Iran with my family. we traveled to Isfahan too. | تعطیلات تابستان خیلی خوب بود. من با خانواده ام به ایران رفتیم. ما به شهر اصفهان هم سفر کردیم. | :شہناز |
| Interesting! What did you do in Isfahan? | چه جالب ! در اصفهان چکار کردید؟ | :پیتر |
| We stayed there for a week. We saw the city. We saw Ancient artifacts. Where did you go on summer vacation and what did you do? | ما یک هفته اصفهان بودیم . ما چند تا از اثار باستانی انجا را دیدیم. شما برای تعطیلات تابستان کجا رفتید ؟ | :شہناز |
| I went to my parent’s house in ohio. I spent some time with them and helped them fix their house. | من به خانه والدینم در اهایو رفتم. من با آنها مدتی وقت صرف کردم و برای تعمیر خانه به آنها کمک کردم | :پیتر |
| Oh wow! Nikki, what did you do during summer vacation? | اوه وای ! نیکی تو در تعطیلات تابستان چکار کردی؟ | :شہناز |
| I didn’t go anywhere. I learned how to cook. | من جایی نرفتم. اما آشپزی یاد گرفتم | :نیکی |
| Oh wow! That is great. Now Nikki can cook food for us. | اوه وای! این عالیه. حالا نیکی میتونه برای ما غذا بپزه | :پیتر |
| Yes, why not? | بله , چرا که نه؟ | :نیکی |
Listening:
Post-Reading/Listening Activities:
(a) Check your vocabulary:
(b) Record yourself Describing the most recent vacation or travel that you just had. After recording, please your audio with your instructor for Her/ his Feedback.
Key Takeaways
- You can talk about recent event in the past.
!سپاس
