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Acknowledgement

• This power point presentation is part of the collaborative work of fifteen ELI / KAU female English language instructors.

• The project comprises the PowerPoint presentations which are presented to the students, the worksheets uploaded on the contributors websites and the revision units.

• The names of the teachers who collaborated in the project are as follows according to alphabetical order as per first name:

Acknowledgements 1. Ms. Amany Abuliel2. Ms. Amal Shousha3. Ms. Dahlia Yuosri4. Ms. Fatima Atteya5. Ms. Gehan Ismail6. Ms. Hanan Orabi7. Ms. Heba Tantawy8. Ms. Ingie Zakaria9. Ms. Jehan jahin10. Ms. Marwa Eldeeb11. Ms. Nahed Moussa12. Ms. Rabab Gabr13. Ms. Ragia Magdeldin14. Ms. Sherine El Deeb15. Ms. Zainab Hefnawy

North Star: Reading and WritingUnit 7

Organic Produce: Is It Worth the Price?

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1- Focus on the TopicA- Predicting

Look at the picture, and discuss these questions

1- Where do you buy fruits and vegetables?2- How do you choose the fruits and vegetables you buy? What do you look for?3- Read the title of the unit. What do you think it means?

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C Preparing To Read. Background Look at the picture on page 123 of a produce section of a grocery store. There are many kinds of organic and regular fruits and vegetables. Use the information in the picture to complete these sentences. 2- Organic apples cost $ 2.49 a pound.3- Regular pears cost $ 0.99 a pound.4- Organic pears cost $ 1.59 a pound.5- Red leaf lettuce costs $ 1.12 each.6-Green leaf lettuce costs $ 0.99 each.7- Organic green leaf lettuce costs $ 2.98 each.8-Organic green leaf lettuce is the most expensive lettuce.

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Vocabulary for ComprehensionRead the sentences. Try to understand the underlined words without looking them up in a dictionary.

1- Orange juice really is orange. But many sodas are made with artificial colors. These colors come from chemicals.

2- Sometimes bananas are green and hard. To ripen them, put them in a paper bag. In one or two days, they should be yellow and soft.

3- Some fruits, like apples, grow on trees. Some, like blackberries, grow on bushes. And some, like grapes, grow on vines.

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Vocabulary for Comprehension

4- Growing your own tomatoes is difficult, but it’s worth the work.

Tomatoes from your own garden are better than tomatoes from the

store.

5- The old-fashioned way to make ice cream took a lot of time and hard work. Today, the way we make ice cream is fast and easy.

6- Fresh fruit tastes much better than fruit from a can.

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Now match the words with their definitions.

_____ 1. artificial a- become ready to eat

____ 2. ripen b- not modern or new

____3. vine c- it will be useful, you will gain from it

_____4. it’s worth it d- not canned or frozen

____5. old-fashioned e- not natural

_____6. fresh f. a plant that grows up and around a a stick.

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Answers

1. E

2. A

3. F

4. C

5. B

6. D

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2- Read the sentences. Try to understand the underlined words without looking them up. Then use the underlined words to complete the chart.1- You’ll find bananas in the produce section of your

supermarket or grocery store.2- I hate insects! Mosquitoes bite me every time I go outside,

and ants get into all the food in my cupboards.3- Sometimes I have trouble growing vegetables, but I never

have trouble growing weeds ! They just take over the garden.4- Farmers use pesticides and herbicides to kill insects and

weeds.5- Cancer kills millions of people every year.6- These tomatoes don’t look very nice, but they taste

wonderful.

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Illnesses Insects Senses Plants Produce Chemicals

1 .the flu 1 .mosquitoes

1 .feel 1 .flowers 1 .apples 1 .pesticides

2 .a cold 2 .flies 2 .smell 2 .vegetables

2 .oranges 2 .herbicides

3.AIDS 3.ants 3 .hear 3 .trees 3 .broccoli

4.cancer 4.see 4 .weeds 4 .lettuce

5 .taste

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2 Focus on ReadingA- Reading One: Organic Produce vs. Regular ProduceMr. Green has a newspaper advice column called “ Ask Mr. Green.”People with shopping problems write to him. Read this letter to Mr.Green. The writer asks two questions. How will Mr. Green answer these questions? Dear Mr. Green:

Lately, I see more and more “organic” fruits and vegetables in the supermarkets. I’m confused. Often the organic apples or strawberries aren’t as red or as large as the regular ones. They sometimes have spots or insect holes. Also, organic produce can cost three times as much as regular produce! So, tell me, what exactly are organic fruits andvegetables? And why are they so expensive?

Confused Shopper Bakersfield, CA

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Now read Mr. Green’s answer.

Ask MR. GREEN:Organic Produce vs. Regular

Produce

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