North Star Reading and Writing Introductory Level

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North StarReading and Writing Introductory Level

• Presented by
• Mrs. Azza Khattab Omar

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Unit 1 Main points

• How do people communicate?
• Through letters
• 1-(Snail mail) as it is very slow
• compared with other means
• 2-Telephone
• 3- Emails
• Which do you use the most?
• How often do you use it ?
• Every day , sometimes , never .

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Percentage of people using theinternet

• The percentage of people communicating through
  the internet
• is going up .
• Internet uses
• Banking / buying and selling stocks / doing
  homework and research for school / emailing /
  listening to music/ making travel plans ..

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Vocabulary of the unit

• Friendship
• Website
• Popular
• Goal
• Advice
• Laugh
• Volunteer
• Community
• Quote

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The Friendship page

• Its a website designed by a 16 year old girl.
  Her name is Bronwyn Polson
• She wanted to make the Internet a friendlier
  place.
• She wanted to give something good to the world.
• The Friendship page has advice about friendship
  / quotes / poetry/ songs / writing / humor and
  more.

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• Bronwyn wants her website The Friendship Page
  to grow. She thinks of making a book with quotes
  about friendship.
• Money from the book will help her to keep The
  Friendship Page going.

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Parts of Speech

• Nouns
• a person / place / thing / an idea.
• ( Maha / Jeddah / a car /happiness )
• Adjectives
• They describe nouns
• ( nice / friendly / good / happy/ far)
• Verbs
• Verbs show actions ( run / read / walk)

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Verb To Be

• Verb to be
• is are am
• She is a nice girl .
• They are good people.
• I am a teacher .
• You are helpful.
• Yes / No questions with verb to be
• Is he a doctor ? Yes , he is No, he isnt
• Are you free? Yes , I am No, I am not
• Are they at school? Yes they are .- No they
  arent
• Am I right ? Yes , you are No , you arent

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• Wh questions with verb to be
• Wh words
• ( what / where/ why/ when / how / who )
• Where is my book?
• When is the meeting?
• Why are you late?
• How are you?
• Who is Bronwyn Polson?
• What is The Friendship Page ?

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Writing

• Sentence
• A sentence is a group of words that expresses a
  complete idea.
• A sentence should have a subject and a verb.
• The first word in a sentence should start with a
  capital letter.
• At the end of a sentence there must be a period (
  a full stop )
• S V
• She is a good student.

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• Question
• Use a question mark at the end of a
• question. ( ? )
• Exclamation mark ( ! )
• Use an exclamation mark at the end of a
  sentence with strong feeling.
• What an amazing site!