How Words Are Used Together - Unit 5 page 70 - page 74 to 78

Phrases /collocations

- What is a phrase? عبارة
 
-  A phrase is a group of words that stand together as a single unit

What are collocations ? متلازمات

They are words that are commonly used with a certain word.

Exercise 3 B page 74

Exercise 4 -B page 75

Phrases pages 76 -77 - 78

Links for more reading:

- phrase examples
- The appositive phrase
- 100 Common phrases in English and sentence patterns
- Academic phrasebook
- common business phrases 
- phrases for emails

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Khaled Alheji mindmap ( prefixes dis - un - in - im - non )

Mr. Khaled ALheji shared with us this mind map he made.

Thank you for sharing it on the blog. Mind maps are useful tools for learning new vocabulary. Thank you again for sharing your creativity. 

Link to the mindmap

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3InNO7eSFmKY3FNTVhLM04tZ1U/view?usp=sharing

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Word Parts - Root - prefix - suffix ( pages 62- 69 ) unit 4

PAGE 62-63-64 

PAGES 65-66-67

PAGE 68 EX-5

 PAGE 68 EX-6

PAGE 69 EX-7

PAGE 69 EX-8

Words are are often made of different parts. If you know the meaning of some of the parts, you can better understand the meaning of the whole word.

The parts of a word:

1- root الجذر 

2- prefix السابقة

3- suffix اللاحقة

The root is the most important part of a word.

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Europeans Stand Tall - Listen and read - pages 48-49

Read to the end and do not stop.

Reread again and underline the words you do not understand 

add these words to your study cards and vocabulary notebook

Key words:

1- tall - taller - tallest

2- look down   V. 

3- grow - grew - grown  v.

4- high -height   - high -  higher - highest 

5- According to
6- diet 
7- especially  
8- sugar - fat - vitamins - minerals - junk food - meet - vegetables - fruits 
9- weight - overweight 
10- private - public 
11- health - healthy - healthier - healthiest 

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Flight risks - Listen and read. Page 48

Read to the end and don't stop.
Reread and underline the words you don't understand

add these words to your study cards and vocabulary notebook

Key words:

1- traveling - travel - traveler 
2- comfort comfortable 
3- pleasant - unpleasant 
4- sit - sitting - sat - seat 
5- blood - clot - 
6- painful - pain - painless 
7- fly - flight 
8- head - arm - leg
9- risk - risky 

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The Common Cold - Listen and read page 47

- Read the passage to the end
- Reread and underline the new words
- look up the words in the dictionary

Key words:

add these words to your study cards

1- children - child
2- belief - believe
3- virus - viruses
4- directly - indirectly - direct
5- connection - connect
6- reason - cause
7- spread  -  prevent
9- tissue  - sneeze  - cough
10- basically - basic

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Pets for Better Health - Listen and read page 46

Read the passage to the end.
Reread and underline the new words

key words:

 add these words to your study cards and vocabulary notebook

1- lonely - loneliness -  alone
2- mental health
3- physical health
4- coworkers - worker - work
5- owner - own
6- lower - low
7- pet

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Reducing Stress - Listen and read page 45

Add these words to your study cards

Key words:

reduce : يقلل  
stress : الضغط
traffic   الزحام
effects    تأثير
body جسم
mind عقل 
mental عقلي
health  صحة
psychologists طبيب نفسي
upset زعل
laugh  يضحك
laughter الضحك

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What is context?

Context is the sentence or sentences around a word.

context clue: 

1- word part
2- Definition /Explanation
3- Synonym 
4- Antonym
5- Example
6- Analogy 
7- grammatical structure

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Word Family

Word family

عائلة الكلمة

A word family is a group of words with the same root. They belong to the same family of meaning, but they are different part of speech.

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links
https://howtospell.co.uk/letter-patterns-and-word-families

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Word Parts

أجزاء الكلمة

1- Root
2- Prefix
3- Suffix

The root is the most important part of a word. 

السابقة

  

اللاحقة

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Link
https://readtvtc.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_9.html

https://readtvtc.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_9.html

44 Sounds and only 26 letters

Pronunciation Symbols 

(a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z)

- In The English language there are 44 sounds but 26 letters. 

Letters:
- 5 vowel letters ( a  ,  e  , i   , o  , u )
- 21 consonants  ( b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z )

Sounds:
- vowel sounds           12
- diphthong                 8
- consonant sounds    24 
- total sounds in English : 12+ 8+24 = 44


Link:
 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/help/phonetics.html

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The Parts of Speech Page 34 Part 2 Unit 1

The Parts of Speech

أجزاء الكلام

1- Nouns               n.         الاسماء
2- Verbs                v.          الافعال
3- Pronouns          pron.   الضمائر
4- Adjectives        adj.      الصفات 
5- Adverbs            adv.     الحال
6- Prepositions     prep.   ادوات الجر
7- Conjunctions   conj.    ادوات الربط

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How do we know what part of speech a word is?

By looking into the role of the word in the sentence.

1- I listen to rock music.                        adj
2- there is a big rock in the street.        n.
3- Don't rock the boat.                           v.

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Fiction books for reading according to your English Level

These books come in five levels. Choose the right level for you and read. Each level uses certain number of headwords. Level one uses 650 headwords moving up to level 5 which uses 3750 headwords. 

Read ten to fifteen minute each day. underline the words you do not know. Do not stop to look up words in the dictionary. Just read and underline. after you finish a chapter collect the new words in  study cards for reviewing and studying. The process is more important than the product. Practicing reading everyday will help build your vocabulary. 

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Write about a book you read? One short paragraph

Talk about a book you read? 

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PART TWO: Vocabulary building - Unit One

Using study Cards To revise and study words

- Guidelines for learning vocabulary

- Making good use of the dictionary
- study vocabulary often
- choosing a good dictionary
- Pronunciation 
- spelling 
- The parts of speech 
- different meaning 
- How to use the word
- vocabulary notebook
- study cards
- the 1000 list of common words in English

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Part One: Unit 3 Books

Listen to this Link

- How to choose a good book to read?
- How to get the most from your Reading?

- guidelines for extensive reading

- Talking about your books
- writing about your books
- suggested books 

Hi class!
We discussed some of these questions in class . We also have given books out for you to take home. They were mostly fiction books. 

 Please bring the books with you to class.
Read the front and back also read the first 5 pages. for next class.

study cards

Dear students

Start preparing and using your study cards.Bring your study cards to class every week. prepare 50 study cards. write words you need to know. You can also use study cards for writing or drawing simple diagrams to help remember important information from the course. Study cards helps break down the subject into small chunks, making studying easy. 


Study Cards are mentioned in the textbook on pages  42 - 43

The process is more important than the product. Try using study cards not only for this course, but for all other subjects. 

Choosing words to learn 

- Learn The words that are used most often 

-  The 1000 most Frequent words in English on page 293 

-  make your own study cards

- you need a vocabulary notebook

- write the word that you did not know in a sentence in you study card

- revise your study cards for 10 minutes three times a week

an effective and efficient tool for learning 

bring your study cards with you to class

pronunciation Study Cards

Acronym Study Card

Abbreviation Study Card

Students study cards

Students study cards

Students study cards

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It is all about the process

Education is a continuous process. Learning is a process. Reading is a process. We need to focus on the process. The process is more important than the product.

Two Reading Strategies for Reading Fast

Scanning and Skimming are two important strategies for fast reading

What is Scanning?
 البحث عن معلومة محددة
looking for specific fact or piece of information without reading everything.

What is Skimming?
البحث عن الفكرة العامة او الافكار الاساسية
looking for general or main ideas.
 


 

Unit Two: Fiction and Nonfiction

What is fiction?
What are the kinds of fiction?
Why do people read fiction?
Who is Ernest Hemingway?

 Read the passage on page 9 to page 11 titled The A day's Wait ? for week 3 

- A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway
- 1933 - Collection The Winner Takes Nothing.

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The story with subtitle and pictures

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

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What is Nonfiction?

 Nonfiction is about real people, places, or things. In nonfiction books, the writer gives facts and information that are supposed to be true. 

examples:

 history - science - psychology - travel - nature - biography. medicine - religion 

Read the passage on page 13 to 15 titled The Black Death? for week 3

 

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 A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —Mark Twain

Reading Culture - Arabnews newspaper

Reading culture

With the rapid technological advancement today’s youth appear to be drifting away from books. Most of the young people are seen busy using Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp. I am not against the use of these applications but the importance of reading should not be ignored. Books play an important role in personality building. I would like to share an interesting quote I read somewhere.

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”

Sometimes, reading brings about a revolutionary change in the outlook of a person. The habit of reading is the best pastime. It can keep a person busy when he has nothing else to do. The xxxxxxxx who are in the habit of xxxxxxxx , not only make the best use of their spare time but they will keep their minds away from the worries that might chase them if they sit brooding, doing nothing.

A good book, for a reader, is better than visiting the best of gardens and scenic places. xxxxxxxx are one of the best tools for training and upbringing. A good xxxxxxxxx has a salutary effect on the mind of a reader and elevates spirits and thoughts.


Replace the XXXXX with words from the text
 source:
 http://www.arabnews.com/news/478496

How to read college textbooks using SQ3R

SQ3R

SQ3R

1- Survey 

2- Question

3- Read

4- Recite

5- Review

Week two: Excellent work class thank you for your participation and energy

Orientation:
Reading is important in most language courses. Improving your reading skills can also help improve your general skills in English.

Reading helps you learn to think in English. It helps Build your English vocabulary. It will help you write better in English. It helps you prepare for study in English.

This course will help you read well in English. Go to the bookstore and buy a book in English to read. ٍChoose a book that is easy and interesting. 

In this course, we will build our vocabulary and we will enjoy learning new words. We will develop our comprehension skills.

We need to work on four parts. 

1-Extensive reading

2- vocabulary building

3- Comprehension skills

4- Reading Faster

What does reading mean to you?

The best readers are people who love to read and who read a lot.

What is Extensive reading?

Why is extensive reading important?

How we can think in English?

What are the benefits of reading?

When you are reading, don't stop to look up words in the dictionary. 

This will slow you down.  Try to use other words and sentences to help you guess the meaning.

Use mind-maps and flash-cards to build your vocabulary.

What are the types of reading material?

Read and read and read.