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Note: Useful Language
Stative verbs
We do not normally use the verbs love, hate, Opening remarks
like, dislike, believe, think in the present • Hope you’re OK./How are you doing?
continuous. • Hi/Greetings from ... . • Thanks for your email./
I love Capri. (NOT: I’m loving Capri.) Sorry for not writing sooner. • Hi! How are you?
Reason for writing
• It’s a very special day today. • I can’t wait to tell
4 Look at the email extracts. Put the verbs you about ... . • I’m having a great time here. It’s ... .
in brackets into the present simple or the Name/Date of festival
present continuous. Write in your notebook. • People celebrate ... .
• On ... (date), people celebrate … .
• bake • celebrate • decorate (x2)
Activities
• People dress up as ... .
• In the morning/afternoon/evening everyone ... .
A ... On 4th July, Americans 1) … Independence Day. • They eat ... (delicious meal, tasty cake).
• Then, people go to a party/parade/restaurant,
They 2) … their houses with red, white and blue, the
etc.
colours of the American flag. Right now, my cousins
• Right now, I’m (making/watching, etc).
3) … the yard with colourful paper streamers and my • At the moment my family/friends and I are ... .
sister 4) … sugar cookies. Feelings
• It’s a(n) interesting/funny/amazing, etc
• watch • love • stand • think celebration.
• It’s so much fun!/I’m having a great time!
Closing remarks
B Email me soon./Write soon./I’d better get going./
... At the moment, I 1) … in the street and I
Bye for now./I must go now./Got to go now.
2) … this huge parade! I 3) … it’s the biggest
parade in the world! I just 4) … Thanksgiving
in New York!
Greeting + (your friend’s first name),
opening remarks, name, place and date of
Your turn celebration

5 a) Brainstorming: Copy the spidergram how people celebrate it
into your notebook. Complete it with what you are doing now
information about a celebration in your country. closing remarks, feelings
Sign off,
opening remarks (your first name)

name/place/date
closing remarks of celebration
Checklist
Celebration
feelings how people When you finish your email, check the
celebrate it following:
activities • opening and closing remarks
happening now • capital letters, punctuation and linkers
• word order
b) Task: Use the rubric in Ex. 1 to write an • number of words
email about a celebration in your country. Use • spelling and grammar
your ideas from Ex. 5a and phrases from the
Useful Language box. Follow the plan.
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