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 the 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 On the left/right To the left (of)* To the right (of)