Please visit this site again, as I'll let you know our room at the YMCA as soon as Kaplan lets me know. As you know, Monday is a national holiday, but we'll have our usual test on Tuesday. The Specific Skills classes will be on the Tuesday schedule.
For those who are still here (and not taking a week off), here's the homework due on Tuesday.
We finished unit 6, doing Focuses 6, 7, and 8. however, you only have to do Exercises 10 (p126-7) and 13 (p130).
And here is the vocabulary that you'll be responsible for. It's more than last week, but as we've gone over it quite a bit, don't panic!
Writing Assignment
1 Find an article in English that you are interested in. This could be about something in the news, a famous performer, an local issue, something related to your home country--anything you like.
2 Read it carefully.
3 Write an essay based on this article. Your essay must, of course, be in essay form with an introduction, body, and conclusion. One body part should be a good summary of the article. Another body part should be your opinion about this article.
4 In your essay, probably but not necessarily in the "summary" section, include three paraphrases taken from the article. Use the techniques we learned in class, especially from the handout I gave you from Academic Connections: synonyms, changing sentence structure, changing active to passive or passive to active, change part of speech (nouns to verbs, verbs of adverbs, etc.)
The essay should be at least 300 words. Focus on the paraphrases and do your best to use more than one technique when you change. Also pay attention to referents! And if possible, use vocabulary that we have been studying in class.
You have an extra day for this, so I think you'll have enough time. Good luck!
AM PROFICIENCY WEEK 14 STUDY SHEET
Grammar Dimensions Unit 6
the former: refers to the first of two referents
the latter: refers to the second of
two referents
Boston and San
Franciso are similar in size and atmosphere; the former is
on the East Coast and the
latter is on the west coast.
Grammar Dimensions, p110
variation
phonology
semantics
respectively
gender
an upbringing
to bring up ( a
child)
status
to be of interest
to
Grammar Dimensions, p111-112
a tendency
authority
a
linguist/linguistics
pitch (in
sound—high pitched, low-pitched)
to assert; an
assertion; assertive
to dominate
Grammar Dimensions p114-115
revised/to revise
vaporization/vaporization
a dimension (an
aspect/a measure of depth)
grief/to grieve
disgust/to
disgust
contempt/to hold
in contempt
whereas (to show
contrast)
shame/to
shame/shameful
classification/to
classify
to dictate/a
dictator/dictation
intensity/intense
fury
(anger)/furious/furiously (with great energy)
posture (body
position)
Grammar Dimensions p117
a march (a group
protest)
to appeal to s.o.
segregation
to reprimand
NEURO (related to
nerves or the brain)
neurologist/neurology/neurotic
(a bodily) organ
Grammar Dimensions p118-119
prosperity/to
prosper
drama
stimuli (plural
of stimulus)
buzzing/to buzz
to urge
disgraceful
Grammar Dimensions p121-2
strenuous
warm-up/to warm
up
hotly
infancy
a frown/to frown
to shrug (one’s
shoulders)
to stem from
Grammar Dimensions p123-4
a bibliography
[BIBLIO: book]
“comfort food”
a casserole
labor-intensive
discarded/to
discard
instinctive
credibility
a cartoon
Grammar Dimensions p125
whole grains
burglary/a
burglar/to burgle
a field (of
study, work)
reform-minded
Grammar Dimensions p126-7
to impart
an advanced age
(old)
to portray
to rattle
(tree) sap/to sap
Academic
Connections
Academic Connections p75
to deteriorate: to become worse
As
he became older, his health deteriorated.
Academic Connections p76
to
break down 1) to reduce to smaller parts
2) to break or
become worse
fragmented/to
fragment/a fragment
to
hover
a
repercussion
monochromatic
[MONO-one] [CHROM-color]
subtle
dissected/to
dissect
far-reaching
an
implication
Academic Connections p 77
abstract
(art)
to
usher in
unthinkable
Academic Connections p78
The
Renaissance/a renaissance
(one/two
point) perspective
irrevocably/irrevocable
fixed
The Influence of Cubism
radical
lingering/to
linger
to
fluctuate/fluctuation
a
likeness
“the
bare minimum”
indecipherable/
decipherable
a cipher
to decipher
obscure/to
obscure
to
stand for (to represent)
to
incorporate
a
depiction/to depict
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