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Good Morning!
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Can you read the following Words?

• liberal
• optimistic
• fundamental
• comparison
• nuisance
• anxiety
• exaggerate
• appreciate

• anxious
• curious
• accurate
• supreme
• beneficial
• inevitable
• provision
• applicant

• associate
• submit
• acquire
• efficient
• guilty
• convert
• gradual
• characteristic

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He wants to ask her out for a
date
He wants to
her.
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Ill try my best to make a sale.
I will try my best to cut down the price.
appointment.
They had an
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The winner of the competition will be
a free voyage to England.
entitled to
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Word-chains

• considerable-considerate
• significance-importance
• confident-confidence
• outstanding-extraordinary
• compare to- compare with-comparative-comparison
• mild-tender-light-slight
• account-account for-on account of

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Word Chains

• cancel-conceal
• accurate-precise
• involve-evolve
• include-conclude-exclude
• like-alike-dislike-unlike
• different-indifferent
• inevitable-unavoidable
• concentrate on-focus on
• staff-stuff

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consist of(?of ??) ??,??,??,??? The United
Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland. ???????????????? comprise To consist
of be composed of constitute The house
comprises ten rooms. ??????10???? constitute
???? make up 7 days constitute a week
??????? "England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern
Ireland constitute / compose / make up the United
kingdom."??????????????????????? compose(?)??,??
Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
?????????? Fifty states compose (or constitute
or make up) the Union. ?,?,?(?????)----compose
r compromise
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Finding out Word Meaning

Most experienced readers try to guess or
make out the meaning of unfamiliar words through
context. Meanwhile, in order to make meaning
clear, good writers often provide or give such
clues for readers.
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Have A Try
Guessing

• After a days hunting, Harold is ravenous.
  Yesterday, for example, he ate two bowels of
  soup, salad, a large chicken, and a piece of
  chocolate cake before he was finally satisfied.
• After the accident, the ship went down so fast we
  werent able to salvage any of our personal
  belongings.

Extremely hungry
To save from damage
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Guessing
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How to figure out the meaning of a certain
word within context
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Guessing
New words
Context
Memorizing
Clues
Checking
Guessing
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Using context Clues
Guessing

• Definition
• Restatement
• General knowledge
• Related information (Logic relationship)
• Example
• Comparison and contrast
• Word-building clues

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Definition
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• The harbor is protected by a jetty --- a wall
  built out unto the water.
• Jane is indecisive, that is, she cant make up
  her mind.

Not good at making decisions
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(face) paler than usual and tired-looking.
Restatement

• He had a wan look. He was so pale and weak that
  we thought he was ill.
• Carbon monoxide (CO) is a noxious gas which can
  cause death.

poisonous
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General knowledge
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• The door was so low that I hit my heads on the
  lintel.
• Mark got on the motorbike, I sat behind him on
  the pillion, and we roared off into the night.

(????)??
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Related Information
Unable to read or write

• She went to school for 12 years and she can't
  write a sentence? Timken said. They made an
  illiterate out of my daughter!
• Timken was now angryonce again he flew into a
  rage.

Lose ones temper
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Using Examples
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• Select any of the periodicals Times, Newsweek,
  Readers Digest, or the New Yorker.
• She is studying glaucoma and other disease of the
  eye.

A kind of eye disease (???)
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Comparison Contrast
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• The snow was falling. Big flakes drifted with the
  wind like feathers.
• Jane was talkative, while Eliza remained reticent
  all the time.

Unwilling to speak
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Comparison Contrast
comparison
Similarities
Signal words
similarities
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Comparison Contrast
contrast
The opposite
Signal words
Opposite in meaning
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Word-building clues
Live longer than

• She outlived her brother.
• They are working overtime to finish the work.
• She was so helpless.

Beyond the usual time needed
Without help
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Determined in character, action or ideas

• I am a resolute man. Once I set up a goal, I
  wont give it up easily.
• We have found that no one in the freshman class
  can add, multiply, subtract or divide simple
  sums therefore, we are setting up a special
  remedial arithmetic course

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• Just before the exam Carls hands shook and
  sweated so much that he could not hold a pen. His
  heart beat fast and his stomach ached, even
  though he knew the subject very well. He really
  had a strange phobia about taking tests.
• The snake slithered through the

grass.
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• We watched as the cat came quietly through the
  grass toward the bird. When it was just a few
  feet from the victim, it gathered its legs under
  itself and pounced.
• Our uncle is a roamer, an incurable wanderer who
  never could stay in one place.

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To bend

• If you crook a part of your body, especially
  your arm or your finger, you bend it.
• Someone who is deceitful behaves in a dishonest
  way by making other people believe something that
  is not true.

dishonest
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Hard working

• George was one of my most diligent students
  he was willing to spend hours working on
  mastering a new subject.
• Most of us agreed however, Bill dissented.
• Peter was not frugal since he spent money so
  freely.

Careful when using money and food
disagree
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Produce a copy of

• The machine in the hardware store can reproduce
  a key in two minutes.
• Most modern architectures are built with glasses,
  steer and concrete.
• It was necessary for the application forms to be
  sent back before the deadline.

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time limit
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• The doctor declared that the patient had a fatal
  disease and would die within a week.
• A. mild B. curable C. deadly D.
  constant
• He knows five romance languages, namely, French,
  Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Rumanian.
• A. that is to say B. by name
• C. respectively D. differently

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• He went ahead regardless of all warnings about
  the danger of his mission.
• A. in case of B. in spite of
• C. because of D. prior to
• Children who are over-protected by their parents
  may become spoiled.
• A. physically hurt B. damaged
• C. lack of discipline D. harmed
• Niagara Falls is a great tourist attraction,
  drawing millions of visitors every year.
• A. attention B. appointment C. interesting
  place D. nice arrangement

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Jigsaw Puzzle

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Jigsaw Puzzle

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Assignment

• Read the passage A New Toy and try to guess
  the meaning of italicized words.
• Learn Lesson 16- Lesson 30
• ????????? unit 1-unit 2 vocabulary and cloze

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Thank you!