My First Camping Experience in the Mountains

 This learning material is designed to help Grade 10 students improve their English reading and grammar skills through a gap-fill exercise based on a recount text. The text titled “My First Camping Experience” presents a personal story about a school camping trip, allowing students to practice understanding past events in a meaningful context.

The main focus of this activity is to help students recognize and use past tense verbs correctly. By completing the missing words in the text, students are encouraged to read carefully, understand the context of each sentence, and choose the most appropriate word form. This activity trains students to pay attention to grammar, vocabulary, and sentence meaning at the same time.

Before doing the exercise, students are introduced to the concept of a recount text, including its purpose and structure. The text explains that a recount consists of orientation, events, and reorientation, and commonly uses time connectors and past tense verbs to show the sequence of events clearly. This explanation helps students understand why certain words are used in the text.

The gap-fill exercise also includes helpful features such as a “Check” button to see the score and a “Hint” button to support students when they face difficulties. These features encourage independent learning while still providing guidance when needed.

This material is suitable for classroom practice or self-study and can be used as a reinforcement activity after learning recount texts. Through this exercise, students can strengthen their understanding of narrative structure and improve their accuracy in using past tense verbs.

Click the image below to start the Gap-Fill Exercise.