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People around us
UNIT 1
More practice-Culture corner
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More practice
Mother’s Day
A Read this online article about Mother’s Day. Then answer the questions below.
When is Mother’s Day in most countries?
What do people like to do on this day?
What does the author advise people to do on this day?
When is Mother’s Day in most countries?
What do people like to do on this day?
What does the author advise people to do on this day?
It is on the second Sunday in May every year.
People like to buy flowers and make special Mother’s Day cards for their mums.
The author advises people to help their mums do the housework, take them to the park or the cinema, give them a simple hug or say “I love you, Mum”.
cook for us
clean for us
encourage us
give us support
make us feel better when we are sad
…
In pairs, discuss what mums usually do for us.
buy flowers
make special Mother’s Day cards
help them do the housework
take them to the park or the cinema
give them a simple hug or say “I love you, Mum”
Ways to celebrate Mother’s Day
B How do you celebrate Mother’s Day? Discuss this with your classmates.
Study skills
*Charts and graphs (2): Using line graphs and bar charts
To show quantities and the change in numbers, we can use graphs and charts, such as line graphs and bar charts.
line graphs
bar charts
A The line graph below shows the number of hamburgers Mr Lin’s fast-food restaurant sold from January to June.
Title: Hamburgers sold, January-June
Number of the hamburgers sold each month
Different months
Look at the graph and complete the sentences.
1 In February, he sold _______
hamburgers.
2 He sold 3,000 hamburgers in _______.
3 He sold the most hamburgers in ________.
4 He sold the fewest hamburgers in ________.
3,500
May
April
March
Did you know?
When using “thousand” and “hundred” to give specific numbers, we do not add “-s” to them.
For example:
Twenty thousand people will visit here for Christmas.
Thousands of people will go to Hong Kong during the