Module 6

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Module 6 Why do we need dictionaries
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Listening and Vocabulary
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Listening
1 What was the speaker writing an essay about? A
painting seen in an art gallery. 2 What did the
teacher say about the essay? That the writer
captured the essence of the painting very well.
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3 How many meanings did the dictionary have for
the word capture? Seven. 4 Did the speaker have a
positive or negative experience of using the
dictionary? Positive.
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capture (v., n.) 1 to ______ someone so that they
become your _______ 2 to get control of a place
from your _____ 3 to _______ what someone or
something is really like
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catch
prisoner
enemy
express
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essence (n.) 1 the most __________ part of
something, usually the part that gives it its
general ________ 2 a _____ that contains the
strong _____ or ______ of the plant it was taken
from
important
character
liquid
smell
taste
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Match the words in a dictionary entry with the
meanings.
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definition example headword
idiom part of speech sense
style label
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(a) this tells you if the word is formal,
informal, etc. (b) this tells you the meaning of
the word (c) this is the word you are looking
up (d) this tells you if the word is a noun,
verb, etc.
style label
definition
headword
part of speech
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(e) this is an expression that contains this
word (f) this is a sentence that shows you how
the word is used (g) this is one particular
meaning of a word with several meanings
idiom
example
sense
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Reading and Vocabulary(2)
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Words preview
prolific landau coachman clip-clop poplar forbiddi
ng
adj.(??)??? n.?????? n.??? v.(??)????? n.?? adj.??
?,?????
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mansion solemn immense rehearse make sb.s
acquaintance momentary mutual
n.?? adj.???,??? adj.???,??? v.??,?? ???? adj.???,
??? adj.???
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embarrassment tick muffled clank asylum criminally
insane
n.?? v.????? adj.???? n.??? n.???? adv.??,??? adj.
?????
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Reading
1 Why did James Murray want to visit Dr W. C.
Minor? Because he had sent so many quotation
slips to him. 2 What kind of man do you think he
imagined Dr W. C. Minor to be? (Open)
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3 Why did he think the man behind the desk was
the man he had come to visit? Because he was in a
study lined with books. 4 Was the man behind the
desk someone important after all? Yes, he was the
Superintendent of Broad-moor Asylum.
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• 5 It is not at all as you suppose. What did the
  speaker mean when he said this?
• The man who had been sending Murray the slips was
  not the kind of person Murray had supposed he was.

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• 1 sounding quieter than normal
• 2 mentally ill
• 3 unfriendly or frightening
• 4 very sad and serious
• 5 producing a lot of work
• 6 an old-fashioned word for a hospital for
  mentally ill people

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prolific asylum muffled insane solemn
forbidding
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• 1 through the lanes
• This means____________.
• (a) small,narrow country roads
• (b) landscapes
• 2 rural Berkshire
• This means ____________ .
• (a) in the countryside
• (b) industrial

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• 3the carriage drawing up eventually
• This means ____________ .
• (a) doing a drawing
• (b) stopping
• 4a solemn servant
• This means the servant was ________.
• (a) unfriendly
• (b) serious

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v
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• 5he had so long rehearsed
• This means he ____________ .
• (a) had practiced the speech
• (b) had always dreamt of making such a speech
• 6mutual embarrassment
• This means __________ .
• (a) one of the party felt embarrassed
• (b) both people felt embarrassed

v
v
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Read the passage again and find 1 three words
that describe sounds (e.g. the swish of a horses
tail, the buzzing of a bee) clip-clopped, ticked,
muffled footsteps
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2 two words that have the same meaning as
enormous huge, immense 3 three words to describe
a person who is living in an asylum inmate,
patient, resident
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1 How does the writer imply that the house James
Murray was visiting impressed him greatly? List
the words and phrases he uses. It had a long
drive lined with trees it was a huge and rather
forbidding red-brick mansion.
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Discussion
Do you find it surprising/shocking that the
contributor of so many quotation slips was
criminally insane? Why/Why not?
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Thank you!