Reading and Listening

موضوع: Reading and Listening الأربعاء نوفمبر 23, 2011 6:35 am

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]

موضوع: رد: Reading and Listening السبت نوفمبر 26, 2011 6:57 am

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]

This is a family.
There are five people in this family.
The mother's name is Tina. The father's name is Bob.
They have two girls and a baby boy.
They live in a house in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Audio is [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]
This is a young married couple.
His name is John. Her name is Jennifer.
They live in a house in Alexandria, Minnesota.
He works as a carpenter.
She works at a diner as a waitress.
They are very happy together,
and they enjoy their lives.
The Audio is [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]
This is a little boy. His name is Alex.
He's five years old. He has a new puppy.
The puppy's name is Grover.
Grover is just two months old.
Alex loves his puppy.
He takes care of his puppy
and feeds him every day.
The Audio is [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]

This is a young girl. Her name is Angela.
She's ten years old.
She has a brother and two sisters.
She's in fifth grade and goes to school every day.
Her family owns a cat.
The cat's name is Kirby.
Kirby likes it when people hold her and pet her.
She's a very nice cat.

The Audio is [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]

Bob is a businessman.
He works for a manufacturer and travels a lot.
He doesn't like to be away from his family,
But traveling is a necessary part of his job.
He wants to get a different job,
So that he can stay home more often with his wife and kids.

Bob has three daughters and two sons.
It's a big family.
His wife, Susan, doesn't work outside the home right now
Because their children are all under the age of eight.
They have a small three-bedroom house,
And they hope to move into a new, larger house soon.
The Audio is [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]

How much do you remember from the reading? Fill in the blanks.

1: What does Bob do?
He ____ a businessman.
2: Does he like to travel?
No, he ______.
3: What does he want?
He _______ a different job.
4: How many kids does he have?
He ______ five children.
5: What's his wife's name?
B____ Name is Susan.

موضوع: Let's Speak English! الأحد فبراير 26, 2012 4:39 pm

Let’s Speak English
It was the first day of class.
Two of her new ESL classmates wanted to know where Tara was from.
They were both from Iraq.
Because Tara looked Iraqi, one of the women asked Tara, in English, if she was from Iraq.
Tara replied, "No, I'm not."
Then the women took turns asking Tara if she was from Iran, or Syria, or Jordan.
To each question, Tara responded with a simple no.
Laughing, one woman said to the other,
"She's not from anywhere!" The two went to their desks, talking to each other in Arabic.
The next day, the teacher divided the students into groups of four.
The students in each group asked introductory questions of each other.
A student in Tara's group asked her, "Where are you from?" Tara answered that she was from Iraq.
The two women who had questioned Tara the day before were sitting only a few feet away.
Both of them heard Tara's response.
"Aha!" they both exclaimed.
"You ARE from Iraq!" Tara smiled and said yes.
Then she apologized to both of them for lying the day before.
She explained that she had not wanted to get into an Arabic conversation with them.
It had been her experience that many ESL students continued to
speak their native language in ESL class, and Tara had not come to
ESL class to practice her Arabic.
In her opinion, ESL students should try to speak English only.
"I agree," said Rose.
"You're 100 percent right," agreed Jennifer. "Rose and I must stop speaking Arabic to each other.
Right, Rose?" Rose nodded, and then said something in Arabic.
All three women laughed.
Over the next four months, Tara became friendly with both women,
although she never spoke a word of Arabic to them during class or break.

The Audio is [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]