ENGL E101F Wk 13 Ss 1_L31

Warm up exercise

Why did young Ah Tung go to a movie with 18 friends?

Because according to the advertisement: below 18 is not allowed to go in.

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Ah Tung's family doctor informed him that his brain seemed to have developed certain problems.

" ... Your brain has two parts, one left and one right. _________________".

What is the problems?

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Your brain has two parts, one left and one right.

The left part has nothing right in it,

and the right part has nothing left in it ...

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Teacher: George Washington not only chopped

down his father's cherry tree, but also

admitted doing it. Now do you know

why his father didn't punish him?

Johnny: Because George still had the axe

in his hand.

Warm up exercise

Teacher: Desmond, your composition on "My

dog" is exactly the same as your

brother's. Did you copy his?

Desmond: No, teacher. It's the same dog.

Listening practice

The performance is fine but spelling seems to be the concern.

If you don't know the spelling of a particular word, search the question paper when you have time. You can also make up the words with the help of pronunciation.

Please write clearly and don't write notes too close to the answers.

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Here are the answers.

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get:

get + adj. = become

e.g. get angry = become angry

get something done

e.g. get my teeth fixed

'get' in place of 'be' to form passive voice

e.g. A pane of glass got broken.

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get + ing = to begin doing something

e.g. get moving, get going, get working, get thinking

The recent trip to China made me begin thinking seriously about the global economy.

thinking

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the role _____ technology and business

in

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It is no secret that we live in a global marketplace.

When I arrived in Beijing and cleared customs,

the first things I saw were a Starbucks and a KFC.

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above

above: location, directly over something

seldom followed 'all' (above all = the most important)

all over a place = in every part of it

around? seldom used with 'all'

all around = indicate that something affects all parts of a

situation or all members of a group

over

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Asia become (X) Asia becomes (?)

Present tense is for facts. Asia is an important manufacturing centre for technology? Since the beginning? Always?

'become' = If someone or something becomes a particular thing, they start to change and develop into that thing, or start to develop the characteristics mentioned.

has become

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all of the flat panels in notebook displays, liquid crystal displays and plasma displays are

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most is used to describe made (the verb) so we need an adverb

mostly

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..., are manufactured (passive voice)

manufactured

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There is no such thing/

There is not such a thing

no

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usually no prepositions are needed before these/this/those/that

in

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I talked with the executives ... (the object)

The executives point to educated workforces ...

who for subject; whom for object

whom

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Two possible answers:

The executives whom I talked with in China pointed (past)

The executives whom I talked with in China point (talked in the past but point in the present)

pointed/

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stress as the verb: no preposition is needed

stress as a noun: 'on' is needed e.g. put the stress on

This also applies to 'emphaise'

on

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Have been talking about manufacturing computer components

How come suddenly manufacture home

at

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resemble = alike e.g. She resembles her mother.

This time: problem with meaning

assemble

put together

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A decade ago: clearly a past event so simple past tense is used

had

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see: present

were emerging: past

now: present

see + something/someone + infinitive without 'to'/ present participle (ing) e.g see him walk/ see him walking

were

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beyond + gerund (ing noun)

manufacturing

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a huge percentage of the notebooks from companies such as Apple, Dell, HP, and others are engineered in Taiwan.

engineered: planned and constructed using scientific methods

Activity 8: presentation of authors

Activity 9: identify mistakes

Activity 9: identify mistakes

Activity 9: identify mistakes

Activity 9: identify mistakes

Activity 9: identify mistakes

Unit 5 Activity 7 P.84

Section 2: References

We do not underline the name of the article.

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The title of the article should not be italicized.

There should not be quotation marks.

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Every item is presented according to the requirements.

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Only Colorado Business Magazine should be italicized.

The date should be yy-mm-dd.

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This is a government document.

The department should be the author.

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Government document should not come first.

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The identifying number should be placed right after the title of the article.

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We do not underline the title of the book.

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The retrieved date should begin with mm-dd-yy

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Guessing meaning of words: strategies

• Morphology
• Context and logic
• Lexical sets
• Synonym chains
• Possible glosses which can be found next to the unfamiliar words e.g. to undergo emergency surgery for diverticulitis, a potentially lethal condition of the colon often associated with high anxiety

Guessing meaning of words: strategies

• Morphology
• make use of the smallest meaningful units to make out the meaning of the words
• e.g. multilingual

• multi = many
• lingual: of the tongue; of the language(s)
• involving several different languages
• A person who can speak more than 2 languages

Guessing meaning of words: strategies

• Context and logic
• making use of the context and logic to understand the meaning of words e.g. lethal

to undergo emergency surgery for diverticulitis (-itis = illness), a potentially lethal condition of the colon often associated with high anxiety

• lethal:
• 'al' adjective
• An emergency and the worst potential of a sickness is death
• causing death; deadly; fatal