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Exploring Businesses and Competition

Learn about barbershops, drugstores, and business competition in this language exercise. Practice using "there is" and "there are" to describe present and past scenarios. Improve spatial order descriptions using prepositions.

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Exploring Businesses and Competition

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  1. Unit 5 GOING OUT OF BUSINESS

  2. Exercise B #2 page70 • I can get a hair cut at a barbershop. • I can get some medicine or aspirin at a drugstore.

  3. 5. Reviewing LanguageA. Exploring Language

  4. Examples: compete / competition / competitors • McDonald's and Wendy's are ………….. They are both fast-food restaurants. • McDonald's and Wendy’s ……………for more customers. • The …………….between McDonald’s and Wendy’s is very strong.

  5. Skills for ExpressionA. grammar: There is/ There are • We use there is or there are to describe something in the present. There is (1) Singular Count Noun (things we can count) table/ student (2) Non-Count Nouns (things we can not count) water/ snow / traffic Examples: There is a bank on my street. There is + bank There is a lot of traffic in Seoul. There is + traffic singular count noun non-count nouns

  6. There are:There are + plural count noun • Examples: • There are a lot of students in my neighborhood. There are + (student) plural count noun

  7. 2. We use there was or there were to describe something in the past. • There was a bank on my street. • There was a lot of traffic in Seoul. • There were a lot ofstudentsin my neighborhood.

  8. 3. Use the contractions isn’t /aren’t and wasn’t / weren’t with there in the negatives. Present • There isn’t a bank on my street. • There isn’ta lot of traffic in Seoul. • There aren’ta lot ofstudentsin my neighborhood. Past: • There wasn’ta bank on my street. • There wasn’ta lot of traffic in Seoul. • There weren’ta lot ofstudentsin my neighborhood.

  9. 4. For Questions use: • (is / are) or (was/ were) + there Present • Isthere a bank on my street? • ISthere a lot of traffic in Seoul? • Are therea lot of students in my neighborhood? Past: • Wasthere a bank on the my street? • Wasthere a lot of traffic in Seoul? • Weretherea lot ofstudentsin my neighborhood?

  10. Use any with yes/ no questions about plural nouns and non-count nouns.

  11. 5. Do not confuse there is and there are with there. There means” in that location” • Example: Seoul is a beautiful city. There are some beautiful parks there. (in Seoul)

  12. Practice: • There ____ a lot of water on the carpet. is are • There ____ two possible answers. wasn’t weren’t

  13. B. Style: Describing a place using spatial order. • What is spatial order? It means organizing ideas by location or place. • For example: • You go from left to right • From up or down • From around or across

  14. Use prepositions to show location: across (from) in front of on the right around the corner (from) next to to the left (of) behind on to the right (of) between • When you describe a place with spatial order, your reader will understand you more easily.

  15. Practice:

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