Week 12 Study Sheet, Homework

What an action-packed day!  We had a tour of South Korea led by JungMin (a little late, a little long, but good job!), checked our grammar homework, went through four focus points, checked our reading homework, learned some essential new vocabulary, then had time for a party at the end.  What great food!  Thanks so much to Soo for all the wonderful Korean delicacies and to Dhefaf for the delicious coffee and sweets.
I'm very sorry not to have been able to attend the farewell meeting--we had a teachers' meeting at the same time (I thought the meeting was to have taken place after the usual meeting).  If it had been at all possible to attend I would have!

If you have any pictures that you took at the end of our class, please send them to my Kaplan email address  (jfzkaplan13@yahoo.com) and I can post them here so that everyone can download a copy.

Our homework, which we will check on Monday before the test--be on time if you want to review everything--is Focus 6, exercise 11 (p363); Focus 7, exercise 13 (p366); Focus 8, three sentences using the expression "Subj. + need to have p.p."; and Focus 9, exercise 17.

Also, please read the text on page 28 of the Academic Connection handout, "The Turnaround at Yellow Corporation."  I will base some reading and writing questions for the test on this, so the more closely you read it and the more questions you ask about it before the test, the better you'll be able to do on the test itself.

Now, here's the study sheet.  Of course, we didn't get to the listening, and we didn't dicuss the Grammar Dimensions p 363 vocabulary, so that won't be on the test. 

Week 12 AM Proficiency Study Sheet

 

Grammar Dimensions Unit 19

Grammar Dimensions p353

to roam

to accompany

 

Grammar Dimension p355

elderly

to claim

outlandish

‘far from the truth’

a promotion (an advancement in position)

 

Grammar Dimensions p 357

continent/continental

to yield/to yield to/a yield

melancholy

endurable/unendurable

wisdom

 

Grammar Dimensions p 358-9

bravery

a celebrity

funding

to turn up

 

 

Grammar Dimensions p 364

haste/hasty/hastily

a hedge

 

Grammar Dimensions p 366

a (train) conductor

a bystander

to misdiagnose

continental drift

a suspension bridge

preliminary

on the verge of…

 

Grammar Dimensions p 367

to sustain (an injury)

 

Summertime

one of these (days, times)

 

 

 

 

Academic Connections

Academic  Connections p24

 

charismatic

ruthless

cunning

persevere/persevering

 

Academic Connections p 25

to head (to lead, be the head of)

a reservoir

personable

sound

to extract

to falter/faltering

an asset

delivery (doing what is expected)

 

Academic Connections, p28

to haul

‘at every turn’

a warehouse

‘to fall victim to’

before long

a firm

across-the-board

to turn s.t. around

mediocrity/mediocre

to divulge

to defect

‘whopping’

enviable

to implement

‘period’  (I won't divulge my secret to you, period!)