The most common verbs in English: look up meaning and use + write your own examples

1. be 29. need 57. provide

2. have 30. feel 58. sit

3. do 31. become 59. stand

4. say 32. leave 60. lose

5. go 33. put 61. pay

6. can 34. mean 62. meet

7. get 35. keep 63. include

8. would 36. let 64. continue

9. make 37. begin 65. set

10. know 38. seem 66. learn

11. will 39. help 67. change

12. think 40. talk 68. lead

13. take 41. turn 69. understand

14. see 42. start 70. watch

15. come 43. might 71. follow

16. could 44. show 72. stop

17. want 45. hear 73. create

18. look 46. play 74. speak

19. use 47. run 75. read

20. find 48. move 76. allow

21. give 49. like 77. add

22. tell 50. live 78. spend

23. work 51. believe 79. grow

24. may 52. hold 80. open

25. should 53. bring 81. walk

26. call 54. happen

27. try 55. must

28. ask 56. write

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 Regular verbs Irregular verbs
Infinitive Simple past Infinitive Simple past
Want Wanted Write Wrote

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I- Simple present samples

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I read stories I don’t read stories Do I read stories?
You write letters You don’t write letters Do you write letters?
Ahmad listens to songs Ahmad doesn’t listen to songs Does Ahmad listen to songs?
we go to the movies We don’t go to the movies Do we go to the movies?
you practice yuga You don’t practice yuga Do you practice Yuga?
they speak German They don’t speak German Do they speak German?

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Vocabulary: Collocations make and do

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 Sentence Patterns
1st pattern

Sub Verb transitive Determiner Adjective Object comp. of place Comp. of time
I Ate A Delicious Burger At McDonalds Yesterday

he Drove An Electric Bicycle In the When he was a

neighborhood child

they Painted A surrealistic Painting On the school Last year

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Hicham Will buy That/this classic Car In the garage Tomorrow

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2nd pattern

Subject Verbtransitive Adjective Object

My Mom Cooks Delicious Meals
John Admires Serious Employees
My friend & I Prefer Extreme Sports

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3rd pattern

Subject Verb to be Adv of frequency Adjective

Said Is Often Calm
Their parents Are Always Respectful
Salma Is Sometimes Sensitive

4th pattern

Subject Adv of frequency Stative verb Adjective

Khalid Never Looks/appears/seems Stressed
This person Always Sounds Convincing
This room Often Sells Fragrant
My mom Sometimes Becomes Sensitive

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Complaining Apologizing Accepting apology
Expressions Expressions Expressions
 I have a complaint to  it is/was my fault  There's no need. It's
make....  (I'm) sorry if... ok.
 Sorry to bother you  I (really) must apologize for  Forget about it. No
but... disturbing/disappointing harm done.
 I'm sorry to say this you  That's all right. It
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 I'm afraid I've got a (one day)
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Seek advice Give advice

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 What do you suggest?
 What do you advise me to do?
 What should I do (about…)?
 If you were me what would you do
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 If I were you I would/wouldn't….
 If I were in your shoes/position I
would…
 You had better/ you'd better…..
 You should…

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 Make a suggestion Respond to suggestions
Expressions Expressions

 Let’s revise…  Ok. let’s.

 What about going to…?
 How about going …?
 Why don’t we go …?
 Couldn’t we …?
 Shall we …?
 Yes, I’d like to.
 Yes, I’d love to.
 What a good idea!
 Why not?

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Express interest Express indifference

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 None of my concerns
 That is really interesting!  None of my business
 What a great idea!  So what?
 Wow, that sounds amazing!  Who cares!
 That is really wonderful!  I don’t care!
 What a wonderful idea!  It’s all the same to me.

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 Reading & Summarizing texts

 Identify the main idea

 Delete unnecessary details
 Use synonyms, antonyms, derivation (hope, hopeful,
hopeless, etc.)
 Change sentences structures to make them simpler

Sample:

Text

Nine inmates escaped from the Fox River Prison yesterday. All of them were serving a life-in-
prison sentence; therefore, they are very dangerous. The state police and the F.B.I. having
been scanning all the neighborhoods surrounding the prison and interrogating witnesses
to no avail. There are a lot of speculations as to how the prisoners managed to escape while the
officials have issued to this very moment.

Summary

Yesterday, nine violent prisoners broke out from Fox River prison. The police and the F.B.A.
haven’t yet been successful in capturing them.

Text: Volcanic eruption

The tallest volcano on Java, an island in Indonesia, erupted on December 4. Mount Semeru shot
clouds of ash and smoke 40,000 feet into the air, darkening the sky. Hot gas and lava killed at least
34 people. Others are still missing.
“Trees, farms, houses are scorched, everything is covered in heavy gray ash,” Haryadi Purnomo
says. He works for East Java’s search and rescue agency.

Around 3,000 houses and 38 schools were damaged. Thousands of people have been evacuated to
shelters.

Days of rain triggered the eruption. At Semeru’s top is a dome of lava that’s too thick to flow. Rain
caused it to fall apart. Experts say the dome could break up even more and cause an avalanche.

A- underline main idea, and look up synonyms, antonyms, derivations …

B- write a summary containing only what is necessary

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 Readings: Non-fiction
Text type:

___ biography/ autobiography ___ journal article ___ sports/fashion magazine ___self-help

___ business review ___history ___ religion/philosophy ___manual

Questions to answer:

 Who is the author?

 What is the subject?  What/who does the text talk about?

What I know …. What I want to know… What the text says…..

Summary of what I learned (facts/ statistics/ arguments/examples)

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 Boxer Rubin Carter was twice wrongly convicted of a triple murder and imprisoned for
nearly two decades. His convictions were overturned in 1985 and he dedicated the rest of
his life advocating for the wrongly convicted.

Who Was Rubin Carter?

Rubin Carter was born on May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. In 1966, at the height of his boxing
career, Carter was twice wrongfully convicted of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two
decades. During the mid-1970s, his case became a cause celébrè for a number of civil rights leaders,
politicians and entertainers. He was ultimately released from prison in 1985 when a federal judge
overturned his convictions. His story inspired the 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane" and the 1999
film 'The Hurricane,' starring Denzel Washington.

Early Life

Carter was born on May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. Carter, who grew up in Paterson, New Jersey,
was arrested and sent to the Jamesburg State Home for Boys at age 12 after he attacked a man with
a Boy Scout knife. He claimed the man was a pedophile who had been attempting to molest one of
his friends. Carter escaped before his six-year term was up and in 1954 he joined the Army, where
he served in a segregated corps and began training as a boxer. He won two European light-
welterweight championships and in 1956 returned to Paterson with the intention of becoming a
professional boxer. Almost immediately upon his return, police arrested Carter and forced him to
serve the remaining 10 months of his sentence in a state reformatory.

Rise to Boxing Fame

In 1957, Carter was again arrested, this time for purse snatching. He spent four years in Trenton
State, a maximum-security prison, for that crime. After his release, he channeled his considerable
anger, towards his situation and that of Paterson's African American community, into his boxing –
he turned pro in 1961 and began a startling four-fight winning streak, including two knockouts.

For his lightning-fast fists, Carter soon earned the nickname "Hurricane" and became one of the top
contenders for the world middleweight crown. In December 1963, in a non-title bout, he beat the
then-welterweight world champion, Emile Griffith, in a first round KO. Although he lost his one

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shot at the title, in a 15-round split decision to reigning champion Joey Giardello in December 1964,
he was widely regarded as a good bet to win his next title bout.

As one of the most famous citizens of Paterson, Carter made no friends with the police, especially
during the summer of 1964, when he was quoted in The Saturday Evening Post as expressing anger
towards the occupations by police of Black neighborhoods. His flamboyant lifestyle (Carter
frequented the city's nightclubs and bars) and juvenile record rankled the police, as did the
vehement statements he had allegedly made advocating violence in the pursuit of racial justice.

Arrest for Triple Homicide

Carter was training for his next shot at the world middleweight title (against champion Dick Tiger)
in October 1966 when he was arrested for the June 17 triple murder of three patrons at the Lafayette
Bar & Grill in Paterson. Carter and John Artis had been arrested on the night of the crime because
they fit an eyewitness description of the killers ("two Negroes in a white car"), but they had been
cleared by a grand jury when the one surviving victim failed to identify them as the gunmen.

Now, the state had produced two eyewitnesses, Alfred Bello and Arthur D. Bradley, who had made
positive identifications. During the trial that followed, the prosecution produced little to no
evidence linking Carter and Artis to the crime, a shaky motive (racially-motivated retaliation for the
murder of a Black tavern owner by a white man in Paterson hours before), and the only two
eyewitnesses were petty criminals involved in a burglary (who were later revealed to have received
money and reduced sentences in exchange for their testimony). Nevertheless, on June 29, 1967,
Carter and Artis were convicted of triple murder and sentenced to three life prison terms.

While incarcerated at Trenton State and Rahway State prisons, Carter continued to maintain his
innocence by defying the authority of the prison guards, refusing to wear an inmate's uniform, and
becoming a recluse in his cell. He read and studied extensively, and in 1974 published his
autobiography, The 16th Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472, to widespread
acclaim.

The story of his plight attracted the attention and support of many luminaries, including Dylan,
who visited Carter in prison, wrote the song "Hurricane" (included on his 1976 album, Desire), and
played it at every stop of his Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Prizefighter Muhammad Ali also joined
the fight to free Carter, along with leading figures in liberal politics, civil rights and entertainment.

Trial and Support

In late 1974, Bello and Bradley both separately recanted their testimony, revealing that they had lied
in order to receive sympathetic treatment from the police. Two years later, after an incriminating
tape of a police interview with Bello and Bradley surfaced and The New York Times ran an exposé
about the case, the New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled 7-0 to overturn Carter's and Artis's
convictions. The two men were released on bail, but remained free for only six months – they were
convicted once more at a second trial in the fall of 1976, during which Bello again reversed his
testimony.

Artis (who had refused a 1974 offer by police to release him if he fingered Carter as the gunman) was
a model prisoner who was released on parole in 1981. Although lawyers for Carter continued the

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struggle, the New Jersey State Supreme Court rejected their appeal for a third trial in the fall of 1982,
affirming the convictions by a 4-3 decision.

Inside the prison walls, Carter had long since recognized his need to resign himself to the reality of
his situation. He spent his time reading and studying and had little contact with others. During his
first 10 years in prison, his wife, Mae Thelma, stopped coming to see him at his own insistence; the
couple, who had a son and a daughter, divorced in 1984.

Beginning in 1980, Carter developed a relationship with Lesra Martin, a teenager from a Brooklyn
ghetto who had read his autobiography and initiated a correspondence. Martin was living with a
group of Canadians who had formed an entrepreneurial commune and had taken on the
responsibilities for his education. Before long, Martin's benefactors, most notably Sam Chaiton,
Terry Swinton, and Lisa Peters, developed a strong bond with Carter and began to work for his
release.

Their efforts intensified after the summer of 1983, when they began to work in New York with
Carter's legal defense team, including lawyers Myron Beldock and Lewis Steel and constitutional
scholar Leon Friedman, to seek a writ of habeas corpus from U.S. District Court Judge H. Lee
Sarokin.

Life After Prison

On November 7, 1985, Sarokin handed down his decision to free Carter, stating that "The extensive
record clearly demonstrates that [the] petitioners' convictions were predicated upon an appeal to
racism rather than reason, and concealment rather than disclosure." The state continued to appeal
Sarokin's decision – all the way to the United States Supreme Court – until February 1988, when a
Passaic County (NJ) state judge formally dismissed the 1966 indictments of Carter and Artis and
finally ended the 22-year long saga.

Upon his release, Carter moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, into the home of the group that had
worked to free him. He worked with Chaiton and Swinton on a book, Lazarus and the Hurricane:
The Untold Story of the Freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, published in 1991. He and Peters were
married, but the couple separated when Carter moved out of the commune.

The former prizefighter, who was given an honorary championship title belt in 1993 by the World
Boxing Council, served as director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted,
headquartered in his house in Toronto. He also served as a member of the board of directors of the
Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta and the Alliance for Prison Justice in Boston.

In 1999, widespread interest in the story of Carter was revived with a major motion picture, The
Hurricane, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Washington. The movie was largely based on
Carter's 1974 autobiography and Chaiton and Swinton's 1991 book, which was re-released in late
1999. In 2000, James S. Hirsch published a new authorized biography, Hurricane: The Miraculous
Journey of Rubin Carter.

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 Flying with the World's Most Deadly Sport

Last year, 24 people died BASE jumping in wingsuits. A new company wants to change
that.

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

In 1997 Patrick de Gayardon donned a webbed nylon suit and leaped, it’s believed, from Norway’s
Kjerag mountain. The rush of air inflated the suit’s three wings, allowing him to glide. This first
modern wingsuit transformed BASE jumping: named for launch points building, antenna, span
(bridge), and earth.
Previously, BASE jumpers descended vertically with parachutes. In wingsuits pilots can perform
daring horizontal stunts such as flying through rings of fire and narrow rock formations.

But wingsuit pilots are much more likely to die. The first recorded fatality from a wingsuit BASE
jump was in 2002; it has since become one of the world’s most lethal sports. “You feel you have
absolute control over what you’re doing—that’s what’s become such a killer,” says Jeb Corliss, who
has been jumping for nearly 20 years. “We are not birds. We are not flying. We are falling toward
the ground at incredible speed, and if you do something wrong, you can die.”

Last year was the deadliest on record for BASE jumpers: Twenty-four of the estimated 37 killed were
wearing wingsuits. Few jumpers are trained in the added dangers of wingsuits—for instance, how
to judge the distance from a cliff face while hurtling toward it at 150 miles an hour. In 2017 a company
called Next Level introduced the first curriculum for progressing from skydiving to BASE jumping
to wingsuit flying. “We can’t save the people who want to take maximum shortcuts and get
maximum praise from their peers after sharing a video of themselves,” says Matt Gerdes, the co-
founder of Squirrel wingsuits. “But at least now they can’t say that they didn’t have a choice.”

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 Writing
Descriptive paragraph
Procedure:

1- Choose the subject of your description: character, person, town, memory, ceremony etc.

2- find special characteristics: how does it look, smell, taste & sound (adjectives)

3- Organization:

 A person /character: start by physical appearance then character qualities

 A place: start by a visual representation then how it feels like
 An object: move through the senses; look, smell, taste, & sound

In my opinion, the character of L in The Death Note is outstanding. Starting by his look,
he is thin. He appears weak in shape. He is also pale but has long dark hair. He looks
crazy with his strange sitting style. As for his character, he is ingenious and quick-witted.
He pays special attention to details. Moreover, he acts like a fool who doesn’t understand
what’s going on which makes him really humorous. what’s more, he is extremely calm and
unconventional.

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