Acknowledgement The Project Comprises The Power Point Presentations

Acknowledgement • The Project Comprises The Power. Point Presentations Which Are Presented To The Students, The Worksheets Uploaded On The Contributors Websites And The Revision Units.

The Names Of The Teachers Who Collaborated In The Project Are As Follows According To Alphabetical Order As Per First Name: 1 Ms. Amany Abuliel 9 Ms. Jehan jahin 2 Ms. Amal Shousha 10 Ms. Manal Bassiouni 3 Ms. Dahlia Yuosri 11 Ms. Marwa Eldeeb 4 Ms. Fatima Atteya 12 Ms. Nahed Moussa 5 Ms. Gehan Ismail 13 Ms. Ragia Magdeldin 6 Ms. Hanan Orabi 14 Ms. Sherine Eldeeb 7 Ms. Heba Tantawy 15 Ms. Zainab Hefnawy 8 Ms. Ingie Zakaria

North Star Reading and writing Basic/Low Intermediate External Program, Spring Semester, 2010.

Unit 6, women’s work?

Approaching The Topic Predicting, Pg. 101 v Look at the ads for cleaning products from a magazine for women in the 1950 s. 1. What are the women in the ads doing? 2. How do you think they feel? Why? 3. Do you think their smile is genuine? Why?

About the unit “Women’s work? ” • This unit is about housework and how it is assigned for women to do. It also discusses the difference between who did chores in the past and who does them nowadays. It also implies the idea that men and women should share housework. • The unit introduces a poem, which gives a sarcastic overview of some TV ads in which producers of some cleaning products try to make housework look like an easy and funny job, just to sell their products, while it never is.

Vocabulary for comprehension, pg. 103 • Check your knowledge by looking at these cleaning products and match each of them to its use.

Vocabulary for comprehension • • • Detergent (n. ) Bleach (v. /n. ) Polish (v. /n. ) Mop (v. /n. ) Scour (v. /n. ) Skillet (n. ) Brand (n. ) Wink (v. /n. ) Oven (n. ) Carpet (v. /n. )

Reading one: Housework • Reading one is a poem, by Sheldon Harnick, which discusses some TV commercials about cleaning products in a derisive way. It shows how the advertisers of these ads try to convince the viewers that house work, which is normally hard labor, can be a pleasant and enjoyable task by using these products.

Reading 1: Housework. Pg. 104

Reading 1 (cont…): Housework. Pg. 105

Reading 1 (cont…) : Housework. Pg. 105

Reading For Main Ideas. Pg. 106 Check (√) the two main ideas in the poem: ___ 1. TV commercials (advertisements on TV) give us good information about which soaps and detergents are best. ___ 2. Men and women should share housework. ___ 3. Children shouldn’t watch TV because there are too many commercials. ___ 4. Housework isn’t really too much fun.

Reading For Details. Pg. 106 Now go to your book and answer the questions about some details in the reading. .

Reacting to the reading. Pg. 107 • Read each statement. Write (Ad) if you think the statement is something that TV advertisers want us to think. Write (Poet) if you think the statement is something that the poet want us to think. ____ 1. Housework is fun when you have the best detergent. ____ 2. Housework is never fun. ____ 3. Most women like doing housework. ____ 4. Some soap and detergents are better than others. ____ 5. Men should do housework, too. ____ 6. Husbands and wives should share housework if they want to be happy. ____ 7. It’s important to do housework. ____ 8. Housework is women’s work. ____ 9. The ladies on TV ads are the only people who smile while they do the housework. ____ 10. The ladies on TV are smiling because they are using wonderful cleaning products.

Reading two: Good Bye to (some) Housework. • Reading Two is an article about the changes in the types of housework done in ten years. People do less housework nowadays as they don’t have time, and they discovered that some housework chores are less important to be done. However, some housework chores are still regularly done.

Reading two(cont…), Pg. 108

Reading two(cont…), Pg. 108

• After going through Reading Two, try to check your understanding by answering the following questions: 1. Why are people doing less housework now? 2. Which chore(s) are people doing less often? 3. Which chore(s) do people do as often today?

Focus on vocabulary, pg. 110 Read each group of sentences. Pay attention to the underlined words. Cross out the sentence that does not make sense. 1. a. I happened to be at the supermarket yesterday when they were giving away free boxes of a new detergent! b. Excuse me do you happen to have change for a dollar? c. Ok, I’ll meet you for lunch tomorrow. I will happen to there at 12: 15. 2. a. I have a terribly urgent message for Tom. Can you make sure that he gets it this month? b. This letter is terribly urgent. I think I should send it express mail, so it gets there tomorrow. c. I’d like to talk to Dr. Donlon, but it’s not terribly urgent. She can call me back when she has time. 3. a. This detergent doesn’t make my clothes really clean. Perhaps I should try a different brand. b. Bleach is the best brand to use for washing white clothes. c. Can you buy some detergent for me? Just get the cheapest brand. 4. a. The doctor winked when she told the couple their son had a broken leg. b. My grandpa used to wink when he told a joke. c. Jim winked at the little girl as he said good- bye to her. •

Focus on vocabulary(cont…), pg. 110 5. a. Before the Abdul Majeed Abdullah concert, a man came on the stage and mentioned, “ Here’s Abdul Majeed Abdullah”. b. Did you mention the party to Joe? I haven’t invited him yet. c. Please don’t mention anything about my vacation plans to my boss. She doesn’t think anyone should take a vacation. 6. a. Diana was surprised when the dinner guests appeared an hour early. b. My keys have appeared. I can’t find them. c. Every time I cook fish for dinner, Tucca, the neighbors cat, appears at my back door. 7. a. I have a speech with my mom on the telephone every Sunday. b. The president gave a speech last night about taxes and education. c. I always get nervous when I have to make speeches. 8. a. Karen wants to be an actress, so she has moved to Hollywood. b. A new movie with my favorite actress is opening tonight at the Lumiere theater. Do you want to go? c. you really need to be good at Math and Geometry if you want to be an actor or an actress.

Complete each sentence with words from the box. Use a word from box A in one blank and a word from box B in the other. Pg. 111 actress detergent happen to A mention polish shine bleach cleaner dust B mop terribly urgent winked 1. I don’t have time to polish the furniture, so I am just going to dust it. 2. ______ makes clothes clean, but ______ makes them white. 3. Can you get some dish soap the next time you _____ be at the store? It’s not ______ so don’t make a special trip. 4. If you want your floors to ______, use new, improved Twinkle Floor next time you _______! 5. The woman in the commercial didn’t ______ the price of the _______ that she was using to clean the tub. 6. The _______ accepted her award and said, “I couldn’t have done it without my husband my daughters, ” as she _______ at them in the audience.

Focus on Writing Style : Poetry, pg. 113 • A poem is a piece of writing which expresses thoughts or feelings. Poems usually include the use of irony and symbolism. Poems usually consist of verses and may or may not rhyme. • A poem consists of many stanzas. A stanza is a set of lines in a poem, set apart from other sets of lines by space. Each stanza comprises its own unit. The break/space between stanzas generally indicates a pause between thoughts, concepts or actions.

Focus on Writing(cont…) Style : Poetry, pg. 113

Focus on Writing(cont…) Style : Poetry Look at the poem on the right. Note the words in red. You’ll find them sound the same, cause they rhyme. My chicken's on the Internet. She surfs the web all day. I've tried to stop her browsing but, so far, there's just no way. She jumps up on the mouse and then she flaps around like mad to click on every hyperlink and every pop-up ad. She plays all sorts of chicken games. She messages her folks. She watches chicken videos and forwards chicken jokes. I wouldn't mind so much except my keyboard's now a wreck. She hasn't learned to type yet; she can only hunt and peck.

Focus on Writing(cont…) Style : Poetry, pg. 113

0% Positive 100% Always Often Usually sometimes Negative Grammar Adverbs and Expressions of Frequency, Pg. 116 Seldom Rarely Never

Grammar Adverbs and Expressions of Frequency • Note the difference: a. Basma always eats breakfast at the university. Subject+ frequency adverb+ simple present form of any verb( except be) b. Basma is never late. Subject + simple present form verb to be + frequency adverb

Grammar Adverbs and Expressions of Frequency, Pg. 116

Grammar Adverbs and Expressions of Frequency, Pg. 116 • Now go to your book and try to check your understanding by going through the exercises on the grammar part.

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