NorthStar Basic/Low Intermediate Reading and Writing Unit 1: Finding the Ideal Job

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NorthStar Basic/Low IntermediateReading and
Writing Unit 1 Finding the Ideal Job

• Prepared by
• Mrs. Azza Khattab Omar
• English Language Institute
• King Abdul Aziz University

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The main idea of the unit

• How to find the ideal job for you
• ( job hunting )
• The traditional way of job hunting
• The modern way of job hunting
• ( What colour is your parachute?)
• When you try to hunt a job, you should consider
  your skills, job settings, and job rewards.

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Vocabulary

• Ideal (adj) the most suitable / perfect
• Career (n) the job you have for a long time.
• Employment (n) work which you are paid for
• Employ (v) employee (n) / employer (n)
• Hire (v) to give someone a job
• Manager (n) the one in charge of a group of
• workers
• Out of work (phrase) not having a job /
• unemployed
• Resume (n) CV your work and education history

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More Vocabulary

• Rewards (n) good things you get in return for
• work such as
• ( money or healthy
  insurance)
• Satisfied with (adj) to be happy about something
• satisfaction (n) satisfy (v)
• Skill (n) ability that you learn and practise
• Want ads (n) advertisements for available jobs
• Manual (n) book, information, newspaper
• Expert (n) a person who knows a lot about
• something

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Reading one Main idea

• The passage compares the traditional way to hunt
  a job to the modern way of Bolles
• ( What colour is your parachute? )
• The traditional way to hunt a job
• read want ads, send your resume to a lot of
  employers or companies, get help from a friend or
  a relative, go to a recruitment ( employment)
  agency and leave your resume.

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Reading one Main idea

• The modern way of Bolles
• A job hunter should think of
• His / Her skills
• ( what ability are you good at? )
• Job setting
• ( Where do you to like to work ?
• what people would you like to work or deal
  with ? )
• Job rewards
• ( What salary will you be satisfied with?
• What do you expect from the job? )

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Reading two Main idea

• The passage talks about how to be paid for the
  job of your dreams.
• It gives examples of three people who succeeded
  in doing the jobs that suited their skills.
• The first became a career consultant.
• The second became a matchmaker.
• The third became a skydiving
• teacher.
• The three people got their ideal jobs or their
  dream jobs.

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Style The sentence

• An English sentence must have
• a subject and a verb.
• Faisal is a doctor.
• In commands we dont use a subject.
• A command starts with a verb and the subject
  is always you but it isnt written.
• Open the door.
• A subject can be
• one word or many words
• They met their friends yesterday. ( one word )
• Maha and Mona are friends. ( many words )
• A subject cannot be repeated
• Marwa she came late. ( Wrong X )
• Marwa came late. ( Correct )
• The first letter of the first word in an
  English sentence must be written in capital
  letter.
• He speaks English.

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Grammar Descriptive and Possessive Adjectives

• Descriptive adjectives
• They describe a noun. He is smart.
• They can come before a noun. She is a nice
  girl.
• We use a / an before adjectives if they
  are followed by a singular noun ( count nouns)
• Hes an interesting person.
• Its a good news. ( Wrong X ) Its good
  news. ( Correct )
• We dont use a / an when adjectives arent
  followed by nouns.
• Dina is beautiful. But ( Dina is a beautiful
  girl. )

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Possessive adjectives

• They show belonging.
• My job is very interesting.
• A noun always follows a possessive adjective.
• His car is new.
• We dont use a / an / the with possessive
  adjectives.
• Its her book.
• Possessive adjectives have the same form before
  singular or plural nouns.
• Your car is new.
• Your cars are new.
• Possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her,
  its, our, their.

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Review exercises

• Choose the correct answer
• 1- What .do you think of having when you
  finish your
• studies?
• a) satisfaction b) ads
  c) career d) review
• 2- The government is trying to encourage
  ..in the private
• sector.
• a) employment b) resume c)
  want ads d) percent
• 3- He gave the secretary his .before
  sitting for an
• interview.
• a) career b) job
  c) resume d) employment
• 4- The ..job for me is to become an
  architect.
• a) wanted b) ideal
  c) satisfied d) interested
• 5- My uncle is very upset because he is
  ..these days.
• a) ideal b) rewarded
  c) out of work d) out of order
• 6- The one who can solve this problem is the
  of the company.
• a) manager b) percentage
  c) career d) skill

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More review exercises

• Choose the correct answers
• 1- Her dress is really exciting.
• ( Find out the possessive and the descriptive
  adjectives)
• a) dress is b) Her
  exciting c) really d)
  really exciting
• 2- They left the room very quickly. ( What is the
  underlined word ? )
• a) The subject b) The object
  c) The verb d) the preposition
  
• 3- Choose a sentence with a plural subject and a
  compound verb.
• a) They had nice time there.
• b) She is living in New York these days.
• c) The students read and did some
  exercises .
• d) None of the above.
• 4- Which of the following statements has a
  compound subject and a compound
• verb?
• a) They eat and drank.
• b) The girl and her mother went shopping
  yesterday evening.
• c) Faten and Alaa went shopping and had
  lunch together.

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More review exercises

• 5- Which of the following statements is correct ?
  
• a) She is clever student.
• b) They are a hardworking doctors.
• c) He is a skillful engineer.
• d) Both b and c
• 6- Choose the sentence which has a descriptive
  adjective followed by a
• noun.
• a) I am interested in my job.
  b) They are clever.
• c) She is an important writer.
  d) Sarah is my friend.
• Best Wishes