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Unit one Sequence one Discovering language

Diversity
Level : second year foreign languages

Before you read

what is the life style of algeria in the past,present,and future?

in food,clothes.daily life.eating habits.
There are many differences about Algeria between life style of the past and in
the present and how it will be in the future. For instance,Food Grain, milk, meat,
eggs...etc. people used to eat them directly; in addition there were many traditional
meals for example : couscous, mahjouba, barcoukch. After the modern evolution there
are many others like: spaghetti, pizza, sweets ,hamburger, chips,…etc
…The Algerians used to eat home-made vegetable and meat food. They did not use to
consume the ready made dishes. Now people due to time changes use to eat prepared
meals which are usually available in snacks and restaurants; however, people still
resort to their tradition and customs. Many families long to eat traditional dishes like
"bourac" "bercoucos" hareera" and "shorba" and pastries like "makrouth".
People around times have a lot of changes which take place in their habits , that is
to say , each country have its changes. So, how did people use to live without all
technologies, and what did they use to eat, to wear, and ever to spend their free times?
Accordingly, people in past used to wear different types of clothes: for women used to
wear M’laya, M'lahef, Jebba, Hayek , scarves, Echarps, .etc. and for men; they used to
wear Burnous, that made of wool and camels hair, Kachabia, large trousers and
others. These styles are used to wear in past. But, today is a very different thing
because we find the majority of Algerian people wear the modern fashionable clothes
such as: t-shirt, jeans, and sports shoes. Whereas, some of them prefer wearing
classical clothes because they like to stick to their traditions and I think that are the
least percent of the majority of people.
Finally, if we talk about future predictions in clothes , Man is going to invent a new
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 fashion , or we may come back to our parents style, or we may stay as we are that is to
say we will keep our style of nowadays.
As you read

1.Read the text and answer the following questions

a .How did the Algerians use to eat grain , milk and eggs ?

b.What were the Algerian traditional meals in the past ?

c.Did the algerian use to cosume spaghetti, pizza before the modern evolution ?

d.What does man use to wear today compared to the past ?

e.What is going to happen in future concerning clothes ?

2.what do the underlined words refer to in the text ?

a. them

b. which

c . they

3.Read the text again and classify the words written in blod type according to the
pronunciation of the final letter s

/s/ / z/ / iz/

After reading:
Read these sentenses from the text and answer the questions below

1. The Algerians used to eat home-made vegetable and meat food.

2. Man is going to invent a new fashion
3. Today is a very different thing because we find the majority of Algerian people wear the
modern fashionable clothes
4. They did not use to consume the ready made dishes.
5. people eat prepared meals which are usually available in snacks and restaurants

a.Habit in the past

b.Habit in presentc.Negative form of past habitd.Future intention

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Practice : 1
Dish washing Days

Read the Paragraph

In the 1950s, women used to wash dishes in the kitchen sink. A woman washed the dishes immediately after
everyone had finished a meal. Her husband rarely–wash dishes because it was not considered to be his job.
A wife often used to dry the dishes by hand. She did the dishes three times a day. I remember that my
mother used to have a special towel just for dishes not for hands.

Did your mother used to have a dish washer? My grandmother did the dishes for thirty years. But today she
buys a dishwasher. she uses a dishwasher for the first time and will never go back to hand-washing the
dishes!

1) Complete the sentences below with negative and positive or interrogative forms of
the semi model “used to”
1.In the 1950s, women used to wash dishes in the kitchen sink
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2.A wife used to dry the dishes by hand.

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3.Did your mother use to have the

dishwasher? .........................................................................................................................................................
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4. Today, she buys a dishwasher for the first time and will never go back to hand-washing the dishes!

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 Practice : 2
Sending Cards

1) Read for Errors

Before the Internet, we used to sent greeting cards. These including cards for birthdays, graduations,
weddings, illness, thank-yous, and sympathy (for illness or death). Now, the Internet allowed us to send our
thoughts and wishes through email, tweets, social network postings, and electronic greeting cards.

For many people, this is an acceptable way to save time, money, and paper, and still express our caring. For
others, it is not proper. For example, my cousin had a birthday last week, so I post my best wishes on
Facebook. He happy to receive my greetings. In contrast, my grandmother did not enjoyed receiving
birthday greetings over the Internet. She told me to call her if I didn't had the money to send her a card. I
think she angry! When I was little, she would always sent me a card on every birthday. I used to looking
forward to receiving her cards. So, I will continue the card-sending tradition with her.
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2)Complete the sentences with the affirmative, negative or interrogative form of used to and the words
in brackets. Use contractions where possible.

used to didn't use to didn't use to Did they use to used to did you use to didn't use to used to

1. David Beckham play for Manchester United.

2. We have a computer, but we do now.
3. (they) work together?
4. That restaurant be a clothes shop.
5. She like him, but now they're married.
6. Where (you) go to school?
7. There be a police station here.
8. I like vegetables, but I do now.

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 Exercise 3

Fill in the gaps:

1. I be very fat in the past.

2. - Did she wear glasses? - Yes, she but now she wears contact lenses.

3. My wife play chess with me in the evenings but now she doesn't have time anymore.

4. I didn't have a dog! I have a cat!

5. They go to the cinema every Sunday but now they watch films at home.

6. What you do at the weekends when you were young?

Playing with words

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Common Suffixes
Noun Suffixes
Suffix Example
-acy privacy
-al refusal
-ance, -ence maintenance, eminence
-dom freedom, kingdom
-er, -or trainer, protector
-ism communism
-ist chemist
-ity, -ty diversity
-ment argument
-ness heaviness
-ship friendship
-sion, -tion concession, transition

Verb Suffixes
-ate participate
-en enlighten
-ify, -fy terrify
-ize, -ise civilize

Adjective Suffixes
-able, -ible edible, presentable
-al regional
-esque picturesque
-ful fanciful
-ic, -ical musical, mythic
-ious, -ous nutritious, courageous
-ish childish
-ive creative
-less endless
-y noisy

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