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المجلة المجانية األولى في العالم العربي المتخصصة في تعليم اللغة اإلنكليزية

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أهال بكم إلى English 4 U المجلة الجديدة في اإلنكليزية اللغة لمتعلمي والفريدة

العالم العربي.

بالنسبة إلى معظمنا، تشكل اللغة اإلنكليزية من الرغم وعلى الرئيسية. التواصل لغة التنوع الكبير من المجالت المختلفة، إال أننا لمتعلمي متخصصة مجلة وجود أن نعتقد اللغة في االهتمام ستزيد اإلنكليزية اللغة المهارات وتحسين تطوير على وتساعد العربية اإلمارات ومقيمي لمواطني اللغوية

المتحدة على حد سواء.

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Plurals

Recycling Desert crossword William Shakespeare Riddles Writing emails

Culture shock London Bait Al Naboodah Word wheel

Qanat Al Qasba

Letter writing

Word puzzle In my classroom Check your progress

Sudoku

Contentsمحتويات العدد

Find the word a / an

Easy recipes

Big Ben

Jokes corner AskTom Mad about idioms!

15 16 1821 272831

35 36 38

44 47 48 51

52 55 5658 62

66 70 73

The alphabet 6 األحرف األبجدية

سودكو

أجد الكلمة

أدوات التنكير

الجمع

إختبر تقدمك

في صفي

لغز الكلمات

عجلة الكلمات

بيغ بن

وصفات طعام سهلة

قناة القصباء

كتابة الرسائل

لندن - صدمة الثقافة

كتابة الرسائل اإللكترونية

األلغاز

وليام شكسبير

كلمات متقاطعة عن الصحراء

تدوير النفايات البالستيكية

مصطالحات

إسأل توم

ركن الفكاهة

Coming next month Word list 32

33 قائمة الكلمات

في العدد القادم

Readers‛ competition 65 مسابقة القراء

بيت النابودة

There is / there are 40 (للمفرد و الجمع) يوجد

ball كرةapple تفاحة

car سيارة

egg بيضة

flower زهرة

door باب

glass كأس

A aB b

C cD d

E eF f

G g

The alphabet

ice-cream بوظةhat قبعة

H h I i

M m

mirror مرآة

jar مرطبان

key مفتاح

ladder سلم

J j K k

L l

األحرف األبجدية

NnO o

P p

R rS s

Q q

queen ملكة

notebook دفترorange برتقالة

pencil قلم

rocket صاروخ

spoon ملعقة

The alphabet

T t

V vW w

X xY y

U u

umbrella شمسية

Z z

table طاولة

van شاحنة

window نافذة

x-ray أشعة سينية

yacht قارب

zebra حمار وحشي

األحرف األبجدية

1. u m b r e l l a 2. r o c k e t 3. p e n c i l 4. o r a n g e

Circle the vowels. Underline the consonants. ضع دائرة حول الحرف الصوتي وخط تحت الحرف الساكن.

5 letters a, e, i, o, u are called vowels. The other letters are called consonants.

تدعى األحرف الخمسة التالية a, e, i, o, u حروف صوتية، بينما تدعى بقية األحرف األخرى حروف ساكنة.

األحرف األبجدية

f l o w e r

The alphabet

Fill in each 4 x 4 grid with the letters provided so that in each row, column and square, each repeats only once.

قم بإمالء المربعات (٤×٤) باألحرف الموجودة بحيث ال يتم تكرار الحرف في المربع أو العمود أو الصف الواحد أكثر من مرة.

C A B

D C

D C

C D

Sudoku سودكو

Plurals - y الجمع

To make the plural of words that end in vowel + y, we add s to the end of the word.

يتم جمع األسماء التي تنتهي بحرف صوتي + y بإضافة s إلى نهاية االسم.

a key مفتاح 3 keys ثالثة مفاتيح

a toy 2 لعبة toys لعبتان

a baby رضيع 2 babies رضيعان

a fly 3 ذبابة flies ثالث ذبابات

To make the plural of words that end in consonant + y, we drop the y and add ies to the end of the word.

ies وإضافة y بحذف الحرف y + يتم جمع األسماء التي تنتهي بحرف ساكنإلى نهاية االسم.

Plurals - ies الجمع

apple

babybagballbinboardbookbox

carchairchild

door

egg

flowerfly

glass

hat

ice-cream

jar

keyknife

ladderleaf

تفاحة

رضيع حقيبةكرة

سلة مهمالتلوحكتاب

صندوق

سيارةكرسيطفل

باب

بيضة

زهرةذبابة

كأس

قبعة

بوظة

مرطبان

مفتاحسكين

سلمورقة

mirrormouse

notebook

orange

penpencilpupil

queen

rocketruler

spoon

tabletoy

umbrella

van

wallwindow

x-ray

yacht

zebra

مرآةفأر

دفتر

برتقالة

قلمقلم رصاص

تلميذ

ملكة

صاروخمسطرة

ملعقة

طاولةلعبة

شمسية

شاحنة

حائطنافذة

أشعة سينية

قارب

حمار وحشي

Word list قائمة الكلمات

These words appear on pages 6 - 31.

جميع هذه الكلمات موجودة من الصفحة ٦ وحتى الصفحة ٣١.

Coming next month

- Colours . . .

- Numbers . . .

For beginners, in the December issue you will find :

- Hello, good morning . . .

في العدد القادم

للمبتدئين، ستجدون في عدد نوفمبر :

- مرحبا، صباح الخير . . .

- األلوان . . .

- األرقام . . .

- And much more . . . . . . والكثير غير ذلك -

green أخضر

blue أزرق

red أحمر

If you wish to make a delicious strawberry mousse*, you will need three cups of sliced strawberries, two medium size cartons of plain yoghurt and one tablespoon of honey. Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until they are smooth. Then put the mousse in the refrigerator for at least two hours and do not serve it until it is very cold. This is a very refreshing dessert** for two or three people.

If you have made up your mind to be really helpful and prepare the whole meal, you will be able to make a tuna salad that the whole family is going to love. You’ll need one big tin of tuna, chilled and drained, one tin of sweet corn, half a cup of mayonnaise, and one teaspoon of mustard. Blend the mayonnaise and mustard, then add the tuna and sweet corn. Put in a big salad bowl and decorate with slices of tomato or avocado and olives, or all these.

Now answer the questions about these texts which appear on the next page.

Strawberry mousse

Easy recipes

Tuna salad

Be careful !!

** Mousse: a chilled dessert made with sweetened cream or yoghurt. Mouse: a small rodent.

** Dessert: a usually sweet course or dish served at the end of a meal. Desert: a very dry land with little vegetation, for example, the Arabian desert.

Anyone can try these two simple recipes.

3. Tuna salad is a recipe that everybody appreciates.

1. It‛s extremely dangerous to cook in hot weather. TRUE FALSE

4. For tuna salad, you blend all the ingredients together. TRUE FALSE

TRUE FALSE

Did you know?Cooking can lead to the loss of some nutrients in certain food. For example, when cooked, apples lose 30% of their vitamin C and carrots 10% of their vitamin A.

2. Strawberry mousse must be served very cold.

Comprehension

RememberYou have to drink a lot of cold water when the weather is hot or you run the risk of dehydration.

Easy recipes - quiz

Answers on page 69

Circlethe

rightanswerTrue

FalseOR

¤ We have done the first one for you.

TRUE FALSE

5. Strawberry mousse must be eaten quickly. TRUE FALSE

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اإلمارة

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الهاتف المتحرك

البريد اإللكتروني

سعر اإلشتراك ( ١٢ عددا )

٧٥ درهم إماراتي ( اإلمارات )

١٠٠ درهم إماراتي ( البلدان االخرى )

طريقة الدفع

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How many words can you make from the letters in the wheel? Each word must contain the letter R.

Can you find a 9-letter word? There are at least 15 other words of five letters or more, including a furniture item and a dairy product.

9 letter word – machinery; furniture item – chair; dairy product – cream.Some other words of five letters or more : chairmen, charm, creamy, crime, enrich, hairy, march, mercy, miner, nicer, rainy, ranch, reach, remain, rhyme, yearn.

Answers

كم كلمة تستطيع أن تكون من األحرف الموجودة في العجلة؟ علما بأن كل .R كلمة يجب أن تحتوي على الحرف

هل تستطيع أن تجد كلمة مكونة من ٩ أحرف؟ علما أنه يوجد على األقل ١٥ كلمة مكونة من ٥ أحرف أو أكثر من ضمنها قطعة أثاث ومنتج ألبان.

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Word wheel

¤ Keep it clear and simple by using common words, bullet points and short sentences.

¤ Always write a subject. This gives the reader an idea of the content of the message.

¤ Avoid abbreviations such as AFAIK (as far as I know), B4N (bye for now), GT2GO (got to go) unless you know the reader will understand them. They should not be used in formal or business emails.

It is now difficult to imagine life without the internet and emails. Billions of email messages are sent daily.

As a percentage of its population, the UAE has the highest number of internet users in the Arab world.

Email messages have become an important way to communicate with family, friends and businesses.

Writing emails

Here are some tips to follow when writing

an email

In Touch Day and Night

¤ Use colour. This is a great way of breaking up your email to help the reader scan and highlight important information.

¤ Smileys or emoticons can make a message fun and cheerful but only use these if you think the reader will understand them. They are not suitable in formal or business emails.

¤ Only use capital letters at the start of each sentence. Don‛t use ALL CAPITALS for the entire text. Some people consider it to be the equivalent of shouting.

¤ Do not use offensive or inappropriate language.

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Writing emails

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joined linked connected attached

restart shut down crash lock up

1. How many hours a day do you spend . . . . . . . . the computer?

2. I can spend the whole evening just . . . . . . . . the internet.

3. To open a file, just . . . . . . . . on the mouse.

4. Please . . . . . . . . the computer before your leave the room.

5. Now we have broadband, we‛re . . . . . . . . to the internet 24 hours a day.

6. My old computer often . . . . . . . .

press cluck hit click ☐

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at in to on

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Writing emails

Now tick the correct answers about computers.

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Answers

1. on 2. surfing 3. click 4. shut down 5. connected 6. crashes

A. What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use?

B. What's full of holes but still holds water?

E. The more you take of them, the more you leave behind. What are they?

D. What travels around the world but stays in a corner?

Riddles

C. What clothing does a house wear?

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England on 23rd April, 1564. He is often known as the Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon.

He was a poet and a playwright and he has a reputation as one of the greatest of all writers in the English language, as well as one of the world's pre-eminent dramatists.

After he left school Shakespeare moved to London and became an actor and a writer.

On 28th November, 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. They had three children - Susana and twins Hamnet and Judith.

He died on 23rd April, 1616 at the age of 52.

In each issue we present a historical, scientific or literary figure. Here we introduce William Shakespeare.

A portrait of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

His life

playwright playwright dramatistreputation reputation statuspre-eminent pre-eminent greatest

VocabularyVocabulary

He wrote his works between 1588 and 1616. Shakespeare is among the few playwrights who have excelled in both tragedy and comedy. His works have been translated into every major language, and his plays are continually performed all around the world.

Shakespeare’s plays are traditionally organised into three groups: Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories. Some of his tragedies are: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and King Lear. His comedies include: Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice. His histories include: King John and Richard II.

Now match the beginning and the ending of these quotes from Shakespeare.

1. To be, or not to be: 2. All the world’s a stage 3. Brevity is 4. We are such stuff

a. the soul of wit. b. as dreams are made of. c. that is the question. d. and all the men and women merely players.

EndingsBeginnings

William Shakespeare

excelledexcelled done wellcontinuallycontinually constantlytraditionallytraditionally usually

VocabularyVocabulary

His works

An idiom is a form of speech or an expression that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. This month we explain a few idioms beginning with A.

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??How well do you know these idiomatic expressions?

Try matching them up … Good luck!

1. A little bird told me

B. If someone doesn‛t want to say where they got some information

from, they can say that a little bird told them.

2. Absence makes the heart grow fonder

E. When people state that they can‛t change who they are - their nature - they sometimes

use this phrase.

3. Achilles‛ heel

F. If people add fuel to the fire, they make a bad situation

worse.

Mad about idioms!

A. This idiom means that when people are apart, their love

grows stronger.

4. Apple of your eye

C. Someone who is very special to you is the ‘apple of your‛ eye.

6. A leopard can‛t change its spots

D. A person‛s weak spot is their Achilles‛ heel.

5. Add fuel to the fire

Answers

1 – B 2 – A 3 – D 4 – C 5 – F 6 – EMad about idioms!