Saudi Heritage Museum
WORKSHEET
1. Suggested Use
Cultural heritage focus, followed by A2-level vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation activities.
2. Suggested Activities
A. Project-based learning
Students create a short presentation or photo collage of a mini museum that shows life in the past. They choose 3–5 items that represent their country’s or family’s past, for example, old toys, photographs, tools, or traditional clothes. They describe what each object is, what people used it for, why it is special or interesting and how it is different from things today. They present their mini museum to the class using images, descriptions or a presentation.
B. Mediation task: Note taking + Relaying specific information
Students read the video script or watch the video again, then fill in the chart. Have students use their notes to summarise the video to share with a student who didn’t watch the video.
| Question | Note |
|---|---|
| What is the place? | The Al-Hamdan Heritage Museum |
| Where is it? | In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| What can you see there? | Old toys, phones, shop signs, musical instruments, coins |
| Who started it? | A man who collected items for 25 years |
| Why is it special? | It helps people remember and learn about the past |
C. Pronunciation task: schwa /ə/
Write some of the words from the video on the board, e.g. collection, about, ago, museum. Elicit a common sound in each of the words (schwa /ə/). Explain that the schwa can appear on any vowel sound. Model, drill and practise the sound. Have students identify any other words they know with the schwa sound. Have them write sentences with the words to give to another pair to practise.
3. Vocabulary
Places and objects
museum
shop signs
telephones
toys
musical instruments
coins
collection
objects
things
past
Adjectives and phrases
old
special
many
different
online
back in time
close to the past
4. Grammar
Present simple:
The museum is in Riyadh; It has many old things from the past.
Past simple:
The man who started the museum spent more than 25 years collecting everything; He travelled to many places, and even bought things online; The museum reminded him of his childhood.
Possessive nouns:
Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hamdan Heritage Museum
TRANSCRIPT
Saudi Heritage Museum
NARRATOR:
In Saudi Arabia, there is a special place that shows what life was like many years ago. It’s called the Al-Hamdan Heritage Museum. The museum is in Riyadh. It has many old things from the past, like shop signs, telephones, and toys. It feels like going back in time. The man who started the museum spent more than 25 years collecting everything. He travelled to many places, and even bought things online. One visitor, Khaled al-Huraibi, said the museum reminded him of his childhood.
SOUNDBITE - Khaled al-Huraibi:
"The museum has many pieces that have taken us back to the days of our childhood, old toys, old phones, some musical instruments and many collectibles."
NARRATOR:
Al-Huraibi likes collecting coins. When he heard there was a coin collection at the museum, he knew he had to go. This museum is more than just a place with old objects — it helps people remember, learn, and feel close to the past.