English Language Department

Unit Three

Grade 8
2013 / 2014

Learning Objectives
By the end of the unit, most students will:
Understand and use approximately 45 new active words for
listening,
speaking, reading and writing
Understand and respond to a conversation with more than two
speakers.
Give a precise description of a scene from a film, using
sequencing words
and a range of vocabulary.
Read an extended narrative and make inferences about
characters and events
compose short texts of at least two paragraphs, showing
cohesion within and between paragraphs
Selected by
Mr. Abdou A. Al Wakil

Mr.
Ismail Haroun
Revised by

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Mr. Harbi Al - Azzma

Reading
Read the following story:
Robinson Crusoe
Author : Daniel Defoe
Author
adapted
shipwrecke
d
island
shore
waves
current
able
float
scramble
exhausted
disappointe
d
survivor
scene
dramatic
memorable
cannibals
shelter
located
defend
gather
miserable
deserted

Adapted and
modified by: ABJ

Robinson Crusoe was a sailor, who went on

a voyage in a ship to South America, but his
ship was damaged and the entire sailors died
except for him. After the shipwrecked he found
himself alone on the shore of an isolated island.
The waves and the current carried him to the
island which was deserted.
Robinson Crusoe, who was very exhausted
and not able to move, scrambled to the shore
and looked for people all over the island, but he
was disappointed when he discovered that he
was the only survivor on the island. He first
collected all the necessary things that the
current carried to the island from the ship which
was appearing from the shore wrecked and
human being
voyage
dramatic.
sailors
He made a net and a fishing rod to catch
useful
fish because it was available on the island. He
also built himself a shelter which was located
on the highest place in the island to defend him from any
possible enemies. After that he began gathering things that
can be useful for his life in this island. He hoped that one
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day he will be able to go back to England where he

belonged.
He spent about twenty memorable years before he
saw the first human being who was a man brought by
cannibals to be eaten on the island. Crusoe helped the
miserable man and they lived together on the island before
a ship came and took them back to England after twentyeight years he spent in the island.

Answer the following questions:

1. What was Crusoe's job?

2. Why didn't he go to South America?

3. Why was he disappointed when he reached the island?

4. Why did he build a shelter on the highest place in the island?

5. How many years did he spend on the island?

B Are the following statements true (T ) or false

(F):
1
2
3
4

All the sailors died because of a strange disease.

Crusoe was happy because he was alone on the island.
The current carried the ship wreckage to the shore.
He made a fishing rod to catch fish.

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5 He spent more than twenty years before he saw a human being. (

6 Crusoe died on the island.
(

)
)

C Read the text again and complete with the

correct words:
wreckage

1
2
3
4
5

England

damaged

fish

South America defend

isolated

Crusoe's ship started the voyage from and went

to .
He didn't arrive at South America because his ship
After the . He found himself in an
island.
He used a net and a fishing rod to catch .
He built the shelter to himself against the enemies

D How do you think Crusoe felt in the island when

he was alone? Write three sentences.

How do you think he felt after meeting the first

human being
on the island?

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Read the definitions and write the words:

sailors
sailors current
current
survivor
net
survivor
net

deserted
exhausted
deserted
exhausted
shelter
shelter cannibals
cannibals island
island

Very, very tired.

_____________________

They eat the meat of the other people.

_____________________

They work on a ship.

_____________________

The movement of the water in the sea.

_____________________

It is used to catch fish.

_____________________

A piece of land surrounded by water.

_____________________

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A place to live in.

_____________________

A place with no people in it.

_____________________

Someone who lives after an accident.

_____________________

Match words from box A with words from box B to

make new words.
ship
A
ship isolated
isolated
human sea
human

1
2
3
4
5

island
voyage rod
rod
B
island
voyage
being wreckage
wreckage
being

fishing
fishing

sea

Read the following list of words about shipwrecked.

Which ones refer to
(a)
people (b) places?
deserted
shelter
island
miserable
survivor
sailors'
shore
disappointed

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memorable

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Imagine that you are in Crusoe's place. What five most

important things that you would do first after you
arrived at the island? Write them down.

2
4

Speaking
Mohammed, Yousif and Abdullah are in the park. They
are bored and don't know what to do at the weekend. Read
their conversation then practice it with you partner.
Mohammed: Where are we going to spend the weekend?
Yousif:

Why not go camping in the desert?

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Abdullah:
Yousif:
Mohammed:
Yousif:
Abdullah:
Mohammed:
Yousif:
Mohammed:
Abdullah:
Mohammed:
Yousif:

Go ahead with your idea, Yousif. What do you

want to say?
I think the desert is a good place to spend the
weekend in especially that the weather is not hot
these days.
Yes, but we need to know what things we do
need for this trip.
A tent is useful. It might be rainy.
We should take a water bottle. We can collect
water.
Can I just say something?
Yes. Go ahead Mohammed.
I think we need to have food with us because we
will spend two nights there.
May be we should take a penknife. That's useful
in the desert.
I think we should begin now.
Yes, let's begin.

Writing
Write a brief summary of a story that you have read
recently.

Extensive reading:
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Vocabulary
1
3
4
6

noon
naked
perfect
wondered

2
4
5
7

surprised
foot dream
distance
measure

Read this chapter of the story then answer the questions:

It happened one day about noon after I had been
on the island for seven years. I was going along the
shore, and I was greatly surprised to see the mark of a
man's naked foot in the sand. I stood there like one who
has seen a giant or some fearful thing. I listened; I
looked around me: I couldn't hear anything or see
anything. I went up the shore and down the shore, but I
could see no mark except that one. I went to it again to
see if it mightn't be a dream, but there it was, the
perfect mark of every part of a foot. I couldn't think how
it came there.
I went home to my tent looking behind me at every
two or three steps, thinking that every plant and tree at
the distance was a man.
I didn't sleep that night. In the morning I got up
out of my bed. "Can it be the mark of my own foot?" I
wondered. I went to the shore again, but, when I came
to measure the mark with my own foot, I found that my
foot wasn't nearly so big.
I went back and made the fence of my home stronger.
Then I made seven holes in it, so that I could put out all
my guns at one time. I fixed the guns all ready pointed
so that I could fire all the seven guns in two minutes.
Fear made me do all this, and the mark
of a man's foot.
I had never seen any man come near the island.
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Answer the following questions:

1. How many years passed before Crusoe see the first man's
footprint on the shore?
_______________________________________________
2. How did he feel when he saw the footprint?
_______________________________________________
3. Why did he go to the shore again the next morning?
_______________________________________________
4. Why did he make seven holes in the fence?
_______________________________________________

Are the following statements true ( T ) or false ( F ):

1. Crusoe was happy to see the footprint on the shore.
(
)
2. Crusoe spent the night looking thinking about the
footprint. (
)
3. Crusoe went to the shore again to help the man who
made the footprint. (
)
4. The footprint wasn't Crusoe's. (
)

C Read again and complete the sentences below with

words from the text:
1. It was ____________when Crusoe saw the footprint.
2. Crusoe saw the mark of a ______________foot.
3. When he first saw the mark, he thought it was a
_____________.
4. When he was going home, he thought that there was a
_____________behind every plant and tree.
5. He made seven holes in the fence to be able to fire all the
_____________ in two minutes.

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D Find words in the text that match the following

definitions:
o without clothes.

____________________

o astonished

____________________

o unreal imagination.

____________________

o without any faults.

____________________

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