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Unit 2
End of unit Activities
Ex. 1 Read the e-mail below and answer the questions.
From: greta@yihii.com
Subject: Birthday party
Dearest cousin Francesca,
I hope you are feeling better now. We missed you a lot at Freddy’s birthday which was
held at Flic-en-Flac beach.
While our parents were engrossed in the preparations for the party, we were happily
playing games. We played balloon volleyball. We had to strike the balloon over a string
without bursting it. I missed the balloon a few times and my team lost by four points.
Robin, Brenda and Shema were upset with me. We also played dolphins in the water.
This was a new game that we played in pairs. I was the ‘tail’ of the dolphin and Robin was
the ‘ns’. We then had a swimming competition. Robin swam using his arms and I had to
hold his waist and kick. It was such fun! We swam together so well that we easily won.
We received a badminton racket and shuttlecock as prize.
Amazingly, we had a birthday cake hunt! Freddy’s father told us that the party would not
start if we did not nd the birthday cake. Usually the birthday cake is on the table but this
time we had to hunt for it. We followed clues written on paper. We played in teams of four
again. We searched everywhere, asked people on the beach, and even looked in the
boats on the shore.
We were running in all directions and wanted to be the winners. The prize for the winning
team was a trip in a glass-bottom boat. Can you guess where the cake was and who
found it? Little Winnie found it in a sand castle! It’s unbelievable but our six-year old
cousin beat us all and made her team win!
That was the most wonderful birthday party that I have ever been to! I really enjoyed
myself and I wish we have such parties again.
I will tell you more when I meet you. Get well soon so that we can play our favourite
games.
Lots of love
Greta