Language Knowledge

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Language Knowledge
Lecture Four
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Frontier Words

• Basics
• Vocabulary Contest

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Basics
What are frontier words? How to remember them?
How to deal with them in context?
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1. Uncommon Meanings
Could you tell me your current address? The
football captain addressed his team. Dont
address me as boss.
Please wait a minute. We read the minutes of last
meeting. Water containing minute quantities of
lead.
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2. Incorrect Usages

• a strip of advice
• classify the students into 3 groups
• dispose the waste
• luxury life
• vacant paper

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3. Unfamiliar Words
patch He is very poor, wearing a coat with
several patches on it.
optical He doesnt have a very good eyesight
because he was born with an optical defect.
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Collocations
arise
n.v.
progress
v.n.
a.n.
vacant
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Inferring Word Meaning
1. Unlike her gregarious sister, Jane is an
unsociable person who does not like to go to
parties or to make new friends.
compare and contrast
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Inferring Word Meaning
2. Ecology is the scientific study of the pattern
of relations of plants, animals and people to
each other and to their surroundings.
3. Many ships leave land and disappear
completely the U.S. Cyclops, for example,
vanished in 1918.
definition
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Inferring Word Meaning
4. The major points of your plan are clear to me,
but the details are still hazy. 5. The orbits of
the earth and other planets are not perfect
circles, but ellipses.
logical relationship
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Inferring Word Meaning
6. Alice shouted into the cave calling her
brother, but the only sound she heard was the
echo of her own voice. 7. I felt my heart
pounding as I went on stage to collect the prize. 
common sense
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Vocabulary Contest
Lightening Round Finding Matches Jigsaw Puzzle
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Lightening Round
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A Trial

• swear
• temporary
• interpret
• harsh

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Group One-1

• anxiety
• bacteria
• bulb
• resume
• yield

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We resumed our work after rest. Send a resume to
the employer.
Its an investment yielding high
percentages. Never yield to your enemies.
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Group Two-1

• accelerate
• globe
• laundry
• multiply
• signature

add, subtract, divide
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Group Three-1

• affect
• candidate
• obstacle
• orchestra
• tissue

influence, effect
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Group Four-1

• atmosphere
• dialect
• faculty
• guarantee
• prosperity

assure sb. sth.
prosperous
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Group One-2

• biscuit
• abstract
• exceed
• impact
• minority

majority
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Group Two-2

• acquaintance
• arithmetic
• deceive
• issue
• starve

be acquainted with
deceive sb. into
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Group Three-2

• abandon
• boast
• gymnasium
• tolerate
• virtue

abandon oneself to
bear, stand
by virtue of
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Group Four-2

• bargain
• luxury
• necessity
• strategy
• rural

luxurious
necessary
urban
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Group One-3

• vigorous
• abundant
• blend
• constitute
• digest

be abundant in
digest the food Readers Digest
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Group Two-3

• executive
• filter
• hazard
• privilege
• sustain

CEO
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Group Three-3

• margin
• circuit
• petroleum
• shield
• welfare

shelter
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Group Four-3
assembly line

• assemble
• cement
• descend
• latter
• package

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Group One-4

• awkward
• fierce
• insult
• opponent
• harmony

clumsy
harmonious
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Group Two-4

• permanent
• statistic
• participate
• resist
• concrete

temporary
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Group Three-4

• geometry
• inherit
• purchase
• receipt
• utility

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Group Four-4

• remedy
• secure
• discard
• victim
• fortnight

dispose of
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Finding Matches

• Each group gets 10 collocations
• Every collocation is split into two halves
• Go around your group and find the other half of
  your collocation

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Group One
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Group Two
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Group Three
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Group Four
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Jigsaw Puzzle
1. doitcoriatncn
1. contradiction
2. oicitedasspth
2. sophisticated
3. refaciciett
3. certificate
4. lertaivc
4. vertical
5. licrcaeut
5. circulate
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Jigsaw Puzzle
6. cnuesain
6. nuisance
7. ciatplo
7. optical
8. tmdaiereenit
8. intermediate
9. pmtelupens
9. supplement
10. aegnfrmt
10. fragment
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Assignment
1. Review all the words in the handout 2.
??????????Passage 1, 3, 5
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Have a lot of fun!