North Star Reading and Writing Introductory Level

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North StarReading and Writing Introductory Level

• Presented by
• Miss Jehan Jahin

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Unit 5 Going out of Business
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Approaching the TopicSharing Information

• Chain stores
• Owned by large companies.
• Has many stores with the same name.
• Starbucks is a coffee bar chain in different
  cities.
• Locally/ family owned businesses are
• Small
• Owned by people in the community.

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Approaching the TopicSharing Information

• P. 68
• Positive reasons
• Good ones such as It has more products.
• Negative reasons
• Reasons against such as It doesnt have the
  things I want.

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Vocabulary for Comprehension

• No. 2 P 70
• 1. I can buy books or magazines at a bookstore.
• 2. You can get a haircut at a barbershop.
• 3. She gets medicine at a drugstore.
• 4. I rent movies at the video store on Main
  Street.
• 5. I buy pens, pencils and paper at an office
  supply store.

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Vocabulary for Comprehension

• P 70 No 2
• 6. I want to buy a TV, CD player, or VCR at this
  electronic store.
• 7. You can get materials and tools to build a new
  house at the hardware store.

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Skills for ExpressionGrammar

• Use There is to describe something in the
  present
• There is/are noun.
• There is a bakery.
• There is a singular count noun
• There is a bank.
• There are Plural count nouns
• There are lots of students
• There is non-count Noun.
• There is a lot of traffic

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• Use there are/ there were to describe something
  in the past.
• In the negative use the contractions
• There wasnt, there werent.
• For questions, put
• Is/ are OR was/ were there
• Is there a bookstore nearby?

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Skills for ExpressionGrammar

• Dont confuse There is and there are with
  there.
• There means in that location.

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StyleDescribing a place using spatial Order

• This means organizing ideas by location or place
  (from right to left, up or down, or around or
  across).

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• Across (from)
• Around the corner (from)
• Between
• In front of
• Next to
• On
• On the left/right
• To the left (of)
• To the right (of)