Week 9 Study Sheet, Writing Assignment

First of all, here's the homework: Exercise 10 (p324) and 11 (p325).  We'll check it before the test.  Next, here's the writing assignment.  As I said two weeks ago, we should have an essay every two weeks, and as we didn't have any last week, here is the assignment.

 Essay Topic

Imagine that you have won a lottery of 100 million dollars.  You have read that 70 percent of lottery winners lose all their money within a few years.  On top of that, their lives are often ruined: they lose their jobs, friends, family connections, and wind up all alone in poverty.  Write a 300 word essay (including introduction, body, and conclusion) about how you will avoid this.  Try to use as many of the preposition clusters as possible.  For example, you can write about how you will abstain from buying useless things, dispense with acquaintances who keep asking you to give them money, and try to get in the habit of investing your money with an eye to increasing your savings.

You may hand in your assignment on Monday or email it to me at jfzkaplan13@yahoo.com.

 

 

Week Nine Study Sheet

And lastly, here's the study sheet for Week 9.  Don't panic--it's really long because I included all of the preposition clusters from Unit 17 of Grammar Dimensions.  Most of these expressions should be familiar to you, but I would like you to focus on the prepositions used with the verbs, adjectives, and nouns.  You will be expected to know which prepositions are used together with which words.  Also, I will ask you to use the expressions that we discussed in class (for example, at odds with, count on, deviate from, shrink from, etc.) to complete a paragraph, so you'll have to know the basic meanings.

I won't include any of the preposition cluster words (which I have indented, or moved a little to the right in the list) as the 15 words that you have to match to sentences, although I will include some of them in the sentences.  As we didn't have time for Focus 7, I will not include any of those expressions or vocabulary on the test.  Also, I have not included the  article about lottery winners.

There will also be a listening section.  I'll give you another chance to listen to the recording and ask questions before the test.

Grammar Dimensions

Opening Task p314-5

depart from

hope for

at odds with

un/accustomed to

associate with

attracted to

result in

a cluster.to cluster

to jot down

heritage

 

Focus 1 p316-7

hostility/ies

differ from

plan on

consist of

call for

hope for

deal with

plan on

object to

count on

dispense with

withdraw from

succeed in

demonstrate against

distinguish between

agree with

 

p318

consult with

cooperate with

associate with

deal with

join with

side with

unite with

 

p319

the status quo

the norm

persecution

culture shock

abstain from

desist from

deviate from

dissent from

emerge from

escape from

flee from

migrate from

prevent from

prohibit from

recede from

recoil from

retire from

separate from

shrink from

withdraw from

 

p320-1

wish for

ask for

hope for

thirst for

ache for

long for

yearn for

 

jeer at

embark on

persist in

persecution

 

p322

adjacent to

dependent on

burdened with

accustomed to

free from

immune from

safe from

expert at

good at

swift at

ignorant of

afraid of

proud of

eager for

homesick for

sorry for

proficient in

rich in

successful in

compatible with

unfamiliar with

content with

careless about

happy about

enthusiastic about

claustrophobic

weary

repentant

a seamstress

 

p324

in case of

in charge of

in place of

in lieu of

in favor of

 

on account of

on behalf of

on top of

on grounds of

 

in the course of

in the event of

in the habit of

in the name of

in the process of

 

on the advice of

on the basis of

on the part of

on the strength of

on the face of

 

by means of

with respect to

in return for

in addition to

at odds with

for the sake of

with the exception of

 

to duck

bail

 

p325

as a consequence of

for lack of

with reference to

with the purpose of

with an eye to

in addition to

for the sake of

for fear of

 

of…descent

emigrate from

to inhabit

to lure

makeshift

humane

 

 

Raise The Issues

 

revenue

rehab(ilitation)

compulsive

diversion

(big) bucks

spokesman

a pipe dream

a commission

take a tough stand

 

prohibition

to undercut

comprehensive

 

 

Listening

to trade in

a shot at s.t.

dazed

loose change

a rescue mission

a conversion

to stumble

booze

accessibility

a shelter

one in five

to be captivated

outpatient

slick

to ante up

upwards of

corruption

to shatter/a shattering

with all respect

to shuffle the deck.