English · Grade 7 · Unit 17
Surprise!
Fair Shares · Past tenses · Wow! Really? Oh no!
What we will learn
😲Use expressions of surprise and dismay
📖Read the story Fair Shares and a hotel conversation
⏳Use the past simple, past continuous and past perfect
✍️Fix punctuation and write a dialogue
Say it with feeling
❓Really? shows interest and surprise
🤩Wow! when it seems almost unreal
🙅No way! refuses to believe it
😟Oh no! and Oh dear! show dismay
Presenter notes: Open by telling the class one piece of surprising news and watch their faces. Point out that their reactions, the wide eyes and the Really?, are exactly what this unit teaches.