UNIT 1

Vocabulary:
Noun (n) : a person , place , object or idea
Verb ( v) : an action
Adjective ( adj ) : describes a noun
Adverb (adv ) : describes an action
- Clear
- Connect / Connection
- Contribute / Contribution
- Express
- Find out
- Spread
- Trend
- Influence
- Decision
- Psychologist
- Purchase
- Recommend / Recommendation
- Research
- Review
- Social
- Study
- Proof
- Passersby
- Experts
- Consumers
- Advertising
- Behavior
- Friends
- Choice / Choose
- Discuss/ Discussion
- Enjoy / Enjoyment
- Gift / give
- Inform / information
- Think / thought
- Comment
L.S
• Wealthy
• Essential
• Brakes
• Failure
• Declined
• Wheels
• Enormous
• Affordable
• Lightbulb
• Change life
• Bicycle
• Fidget spinner
• Safety
• Fuel
• Triangular toy
• Nervous energy
• Candles
• Play around
• Cheap electricity
• Transportation
• Available
• Evident
• Transparency
• Bother
• Entrepreneur
• Brand
• Fertilizer
• Cuisine
• Grocery
• Advertise
• Buck the trend
• Chat
• Get the point
• Postage
• Potential
• Realize
• Reasonable
• Independent
• Risky
• Small
• Bookstore
• Secondhand
• Give away
• Historian
• Traditional
• Kente
• Take a risk
• Run the risk
• Reduce the risk
• Involve risk
• Start trends
• Follow trends
• Buck trends
• In other words
• The point is
• To sum up
• Your own idea
• Most important
• Less important
Reading skill : Identifying the main idea of paragraph

Vocabulary skill : Word families

• Grammar: Verb be

- I – Am
- You / They / We – are
- She / He / It – is
 • Grammar: Present Continuous
1- Use it to talk about activities in progress at the of writing or that have started but not finished
- Verb be + verb ( ing) + sentences /keywords

2- Use it with words like today or this week, or time period

- Keyword + verb be + verb ( ing )

3- Use it to talk about changes , for example: Changing – Becoming – growing – increasing
- Verb be + changes words

4- Some verbs used less commonly in present continuous and often are not appropriate in
academic writing , for example: know – want – need – understand- like – love – believe – see-
hear

Keywords
To form the present continuous :
Today - Verb be + ing form
This month - Verb end with e , delete it and add ing
This week

This Thursday

This year

This morning

This April

This winter

These days

These weeks

These months

Now

Right now

At the time of

Speaking

At the moment

Listen !
Look !

• Listening skill : Listening to

the main idea

• Speaking skill : Drawing

attention to main ideas
 • Writing skill : Writing a descriptive paragraph

Vocabulary skill : Collocations : nouns and verbs