Which Dictionary?

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Which Dictionary?

• How to decide which dictionary or dictionaries
  you need.

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Introduction

• How do you usually use your dictionary?
• What is the difference between a bilingual and a
  monolingual dictionary?
• What type of new dictionary is available?

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How do you usually use your dictionary?

• Most people use the dictionary mainly to find the
  meanings of words.
• Chiara wanted to know how to say Vi raggiungo
  più tardi. She wasnt sure exactly how to say
  raggiungo so she looked for it in her bilingual
  dictionary. What did she find?
• She stopped at reach. Was that a good idea?
• Now look at the dictionary. What could have
  helped her?

4
Anna said I really need to recover myself after
I split up with my boyfirend.
What should she have said?
How could she have found the information she
needed?
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What is the difference between a bilingual and a
monolingual dictionary?

• Once Chiara had found the word join she wanted
  more information. What did she need to know?
• Look at the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
  English it tells us a lot about this word.
• This is actually three books on one CD Rom
  monolingual dictionary, Activator and Exercise
  book.

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What is the Activator?

• Sometimes we work from concept to word. Look at
  the picture. What word does the picture
  illustrate?

This is how the Activator works from a base
word like walk to more specific terms.
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How do I use the Activator?

• Look at these three pictures
• What is the base word?
• Look at the Activator sections 1-5, and choose at
  least 2 words to describe each of the people.

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Practise working from concept to word

• Now look at this exercise and decide which fat
  word you would use

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Conclusion

• What are the advantages of the Activator?
• The Longman Contemporary Dictionary includes much
  more than this. What?
• Now its your turn. Make your dictionary work for
  you. Use it to expand your vocabulary and then
  use that vocabulary to
• ACTIVATE it.