What do you know about Scotland? And Scottish games?
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Get Ready
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Read the questions: "What do you know about Scotland? And the Scottish Games?". Pick out a country, a nationality and a noun that became a proper noun.
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Which countries do you associate these games with?
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Brainstorm from the title of the chapter.
High: words connected to mountains (example: skiing).
Lands: other words ending in â-landâ (example: Scotland).
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Highlands Fair Play
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Fair: give an example of a fair situation.
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Play: other verbs to describe actions in sports (example: run).
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Class the words in two categories: the words connected to Scotland and the words connected to Ireland.
Scotland
Ireland
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Check with this table what you already know.
Today, can you...
Prove it!
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talk about the present?
In Scotland, people
give orders?
Don't
;
instead!
describe people?
He is wearing
and he has
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Observe and listen
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Match the vocabulary to the definition. Use the image to help you.
Listen to the audio guide and fill in the blanks with the missing words.
This image is a poster from designed by . It shows the Highland Games. In the background, we can see a ; this is the âhigh landâ. In the , we can see two men dressed in a type of , called a âkiltâ. They are dancing; it seems to be a show or a .
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Bonus question
Your friend is going to Scotland. Give him suggestions for his trip.
Clothes
Food and Drink
Sport
Music
Places to visit
Wear a kilt and tartan socks
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Let's have fun
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Pick out words starting with the /h/ sound.
To pronounce the /h/ sound, push the air out, as if you were very tired. Imagine you just climbed a Highland Hill...
Tip
Evelyn A. McMaster, âThe Highland Gamesâ
The hills echo with bagpipe tunes, The âgathering' is, in full swing, Tartaned dancers are on stage, Performing, the âHighland Fling'.
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Now practice saying this riddle: âHungry Hamish and his horse ate a hundred haggises. If the horse had half, how many haggises did Hamish have?â