North Star Reading and Writing Introductory Level Presented

North Star Reading and Writing Introductory Level Presented by Miss Jehan Jahin

Unit 5 Going out of Business

Approaching the Topic Sharing 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.

Approaching the Topic Sharing Information • P. 68 • Positive reasons: – Good ones such as: It has more products. • Negative reasons: – Reasons against such as : It doesn’t have things I want.

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.

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.

Skills for Expression Grammar • 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

• Use there are/ there were to describe something in the past. • In the negative use the contractions: – There wasn’t, there weren’t. • For questions, put – Is/ are OR was/ were + there • Is there a bookstore nearby?

Skills for Expression Grammar • Don’t confuse “There is” and “there are” with there. • There means “ in that location”.

Style Describing a place using spatial Order • This means organizing ideas by location or place (from right to left, up or down, or around or across).

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