Write about Your home

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EAD. Answer the questions.

1. What did Anissa write about?
Anissa Bel 2. Where does Anissa live?
3. What does she like about her home?
MY Home 4. What are some problems with her home?
I like my home. I live in an aparlment' r-,
-'as a large kitchen and many windows'
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-^ere is a laundry room in the building'
-rere is a bus stoP nearbY
There are also some Problems with
-y apartment. Sometimes the elevators
ron't work. The neighbors are noisy'
rhe school is far away.

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model, the Writing Skill, and your ideas
from Exercise 2 to helP You.

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sentence.
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Unit 5, Lesson 10 t§S

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 Take initiative

TI MEET Yu§EF
I take initiative. For example, I try to fix problems
Read about one of his
at work. When I can't fix the problem myself, I
workplace skills.
find someone to help me fix it.

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READ. Circle True or False.

Yusef has a new job. He is a cleaner in a grocery

store. He works alone at night. Last night, his
supervisor showed him all the cleaning equipment.
Then the supervisor went home. yuseivacuumed
some of the floors in the building, but in the middle
of the night the vacuum cleaner stopped working.

1.
Y.r."lis a new emptoyee in the building. r lrue ) .E"alqe
2. Yusef has many co-workers. -
True False
3. Yusef finished vacuuming all the floors. True FaG)
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WORK TOGETHER. Yusef takes initiative. What does he do?
Explain your answer.
l..rYusef tries to fix the vacuum cleaner so he can finish cleaning
the floors.
2' Yusuf calls his supervisor and leaves a voice message about the broken cleaner.
3. Yusef doesn't do anything about the vacuum creaná7.
4. Yusef

1' THINK ABOUT lTl Do you take initiative? How do you take
initiative in ctass?
At wqrk? At home? Give examples. \t,-:
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2. WRITE ABOUT tT. Write an exampte in your Skiils Log.
I take initiative in elass" For exa-ple,
when there aren't enough chairs in the
clattroom,T get some chairs {rom another clarrroom.

Unit Review: Go back to page g5. Which unit goals can you check off?

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