Kuwait's Vintage Treasures
WORKSHEET
1. Suggested Use
Focus on heritage, time, and language of description; followed by B1+ vocabulary and grammar drawn directly from the video script.
2. Suggested Activities
A. Project-based learning
Students explore how objects connect people to the past, like Mohammed’s antiques do. Ask students to choose one item that tells a story from the past, e.g. an old photograph, a book, a family object, a childhood toy or an early piece of technology. Students write or record a short spoken story (1–2 mins) describing what the object is and where it came from, what memories or emotions it brings and why it’s important to keep or share it.
B. Mediation task: Relaying specific information
Tell students to imagine their classmate is seeing the title of the video but doesn’t know anything else about the topic. Explain that students need to condense the information from the video as much as possible and write or say it in a way that their partner can then answer questions about the video without watching it.
C. Pronunciation task: /θ/ and /ð/ sounds
Elicit the compound nouns from the video, e.g. vinyl records, social media, Instagram page, camera shop, glassware collection. Have students identify which part of the compound is stressed. Model, practise and drill the pronunciation. Have students come up with other compound nouns with similar stress patterns.
3. Vocabulary
Objects
(collect) antiques
devices
documents
glassware
vinyl records
cassettes
cartridges
cameras
radios
pieces
museum
vintage
Collocations and phrases
step back in time
full of
protect the past
take an interest
check up on
new generation
clean up
put (them) on
keep memories alive
4. Grammar
Present perfect continuous:
He has been collecting these antiques for more than 30 years.
Past simple:
He started as a photographer; Then he began collecting vinyl records.
Verbs followed by gerunds:
began collecting …
TRANSCRIPT
Kuwait's Vintage Treasures
NARRATOR:
In Kuwait City, there’s a small shop that feels like you’re stepping back in time. It’s called Nawader, and it's full of things from the past. The shop owner, Mohammed al-Banay, has been collecting these antiques for more than 30 years. He says it’s more than a shop — it’s like a museum.
SOUNDBITE - Mohammed al-Banay:
"It's a small museum where I collect devices, documents, glassware, vinyl records, cassettes, cartridges. They're from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s."
NARRATOR:
Mohammed didn’t always work with antiques. He started as a photographer. Then he began collecting vinyl records. Now, he has around 100,000 of them. Most of the records are from the Gulf region and other parts of the Arab world. Many people visit his shop to find memories. They like to see items from their past, like old cameras and radios. Some visitors say the shop helps protect the past. They don’t want these things to disappear. Young people are also starting to take an interest. The shop’s Instagram page has thousands of followers. Mohammed says social media helps him share the past with a new generation.
SOUNDBITE - Mohammed al-Banay:
“Every now and then when I check up on the museum I find pieces that I haven't seen, I clean them up, I put them on display for people to see and I take pictures of them and put them on Instagram.”
NARRATOR:
From vinyl to Instagram, Nawader connects the past with the present. In a world where technology is always changing, shops like this help us remember our history — and keep those memories alive for the future.