Pre-class Work
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Choose the statement that best explains your understanding of the text..
1.C 2.d 3.d 4.b 5.b 6.b 7.a
More Work on the Text 1.Word Formation
1)Change the verbs to their corresponding nouns and vice versa.Add more words to the list.
Verb Noun Enjoy enjoyment
Engage engagement Develop development Improve improvement Astonish astonishment Move movement Require requirement Judge judgement(or:judgment) Argue argument(Note:“e”is dropped)
Announce announcement Appiont appiontment
Excite excitement Punish punishment Employ empoyment Achieve achievement Depart department Equip equipment Agree agreement
The suffix-ment,from French and Latin,is added to verbs to form nouns to refer to the
act,cause,means or result of doing sth.
2)Change the nouns to their corresponding adjectives and vice versa.Add more words to the list
Noun Adjecctive
Snow snowy Rain Rainy Blood bloody
Smoke smoky(Note the drop of the final “e’’)
ice icy(Note the drop of the final”e”)
Rock rocky Sleep sleepy Worth worthy Mist misty
noise noisy(Note the droop of the final”e’’)
Cloud cloudy Dust dusty Dirt dirty Anger angry
hunger hungry(Note the drop of the ”e’’in “-er”)
Luck lucky Thirst thirsty Health healthy
The suffix-y,from Old English,is added to nouns to form adjectives meaning”full of;coverd
with;tending to do sth.;like/typical of sth.”.
3)Complete the sentences with the translation of what is given in the bracket in tne proper form. (1)healthy (2)sleepy (3)disappiont (4)announcement (5)punishment (6)sunny (7)achieveme
nt (8)thirsty (9)arrangement (10)argument
2.Pick out idiomatic expressions in the text. To get on a bus to be away from In front of to forget about sb/sth
To be (un)aware of to come through(said of a document)
To be dress in to take sb back In silence used to do sth
To pull into a place(said of a bus) to tie sth to some place
Deep into the night to come into a place
To get off a bus to be caught up in sth To run away from sb to tighten one’s face into To engage sb in stn(conversation) to fortify oneself against sth
As if (doing sth .) to be out of some place To retreat into silence in triumph / exaltation
After a while on the right side To chatter about to rise from one’s seat To write to sb. To be covered with sth . To be married to sb to make one’s way to a place 3. Complete the sentences , using the expressions listed below . 1) pulling into 2) caught up in 3) dreamed of 4) engage , in 5) covered with 6) was aware of 7) wonder about 8) make our way
9) are unaware of 10) used to
4. Complete the sentences, using the phrasal verbs of “get” listed below . 1)get to 2) got up 3) got on , got off 4) had got through (with) 5) getting on / along with 6) getting in 7) got down 8) got through
9) got into
5. Tick the nouns that may follow the verbs . 1) take a bus , a train ,a plane , a ship , a taxi , A seat , a picture , a photograph , a look , a glance
Coffee , a meal , a drink ,
A bath , a shower , a swim , a walk , a step , an action , a nap ,
A trip , a journey , a chance , an opportunity
2) have a seat , a look , a glance , A cigarette , a drink , coffee , a meal , A nap , a dream , an illness , a cold , a sleep
A bath , a shower , a swim ,
A walk , a trip , A chance , an opportunity ,
A dance , a party ,
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