People & Places

Dear Students,

You have done a great job so far. Your have brainstormed, shared your thoughts and opinions, and contributed to whole class discussions as active participants. I appreciate your effort and good manners! It is such a pleasure to work with you and I am proud to be your teacher. Keep up the good work!

We will progress through the second unit this week and practice talking about people and places, listening to tape scripts and discuss what we hear, and write a paragraph on a chosen country, whether yet visited or not. As time progresses, I expect you to write a fully developed essay using correct grammar and varied vocabulary. So, our starting point is a paragraph. I encourage you to use your imagination and knowledge of new vocabulary to write well thought-out descriptive paragraphs on your country. You're more than welcome to extend it to a short composition/essay if you like !! I know most of you are capable of writing a four paragraph piece. Anyway, your paragraphs are due tomorrow. You will be asked to share them with your peers, who will ask questions and make comments on your writing.

Please copy the following list of new words, look them up in dictionaries, indicate parts of speech, use them in your own sentences (or modify the copied sentence), find synonyms (optional/bonus), and look up Arabic equivalents (optional/bonus). This is due on Sunday next week.

• annoy
• certainly
• climate
• coast
• complain
• cosmopolitan
• descent
• culture
• exciting
• export
• similar to
• variety
• successful
• scruffy
• habit
• immigrant
• independence
• inhabitants
• miserable
• opportunity

Here is the list of the phrasal verbs you'll come across throughout the unit. Don't look these up as we'll discuss these together in class.


· get used to
· have in common
· change gears
· make a decision
· put up with

Please e-mail me if you have questions or need clarification on the assignment.

Again, keep up the good work and see you in class tomorrow!

Ms. Neriman