Thank you to Nicolas for his tour around the Seven Modern Wonders of the World I'm ashamed to say that I have visited only one (The Pyramids of Giza), but hope to add a few more before I am no more. Definitely the Colosseum in Rome and the Great Wall of China, although all remaining 6 sites are well worth visiting
We finished up Unit 3, going over Focus points 6 and 7. Both have very useful charts which explain what kind of verb (singular or plural) you should use with various words and expressions. I highly recommend that you study them.
Let's do homework exercises 14 and 15 (pages 54 and 56, respectively) and we'll go over them before the test. Also, read the rest of the Top Ten Epidemics. I'll select some passages for the test, including at least one from the part you may not have read yet. In case you lost your copy, there is a version on this blog which I posted yesterday.
Finally, a number of us are going to meet at Ma Soba tonight, although I'm not sure exactly what the number is.
Here is a link to the Ma Soba site which shows the directions. The closest T stop is Government Center, although it is not as close to the restaurant as I thought. Cambridge Street is on the other side of Beacon Hill--in other words, if you got off the T at Park Street Station and walked up Park Street to the State House at the top of the hill and walked down the other side, you would reach Cambridge Street.
If you get off at Government Center, you'll have to cross the street and then go right, bearing left and making a big curve. Ma Soba should be on your left between Hancock and Joy Streets.
If you get to Government Center by 7:00, we'll meet you there and walk to the restaurant together. If not, look at the map on the Ma Soba site and follow my directions and it should only take you about 10 minutes before you come to the restaurant.
See you there!
And finally, the study sheet, in case you lost yours or missed class.
AM Proficiency Week 17 Study Sheet
Study Grammar Dimensions Unit 3
Grammar Dimensions p38-9
a poll/to poll to take/conduct a poll
Grammar Dimensions p41
a consideration
to structure
to be critical of
Grammar Dimensions p43-4
to rank (v.i.,
v.t.) a rank
to thrive, thriving
to snoop, snoopy
to be nosey: to be too curious about other people
My nosey neighbor always asks
me where I’m going.
to conduct (a study,
an experiment, research, etc.)
Grammar Dimensions p45
a subscription, to
subscribe to (a magazine, a belief)
Grammar Dimensions p46
Pay special attention to the
list of mass nouns!
a flock/to flock
a swarm/to swarm
a herd/to herd
Grammar Dimensions p47
fair (so-so,
mediocre)
to neglect
Grammar Dimensions p48-50
physics
(the) mumps
arthritis
plaid
a chipmunk
a shingle, the
shingles
a wart
(a pair of) pliers
Grammar Dimensions p51
up-to-date
Grammar Dimensions p53-4
to lift weights
a carnival
a monument
Grammar Dimensions p54
an aftermath
disruption
epicenter
to uproot
’in the vicinity’
to jam, to be jammed
with
Grammar Dimensions p55-6
an outfit
valid, validity (N),
to validate
a finding
to be justified
Academic Connections
Academic Connections p136
infectious (FEC, FECT)
respiratory
a phase
contagious
to overcome
inflammation
to cough, a cough
a symptom
a blister, to
blister
to eradicate,
eradication
fatal, a fatality
vaccination
a chill, to chill,
chilly
a rash
itchy, to itch, an
itch, to itch to
acute
a complication
elderly
lethargy, lethargic
shortness of breath
gastroenteric
disease
fatigue, to fatigue,
to be fatigued
to cough up
vomit
to shiver, a shiver
to vomit
a joint (elbow,
knew, wrist, etc.)
a bowel movement (!)
a convulsion
to contract a
disease, illness
tuberculosis (TB)
malaria
Academic Connections Listening
susceptible
a parasite,
parasitic
(schistosomiasis)
the bladder
the kidneys
the intestines
dehydration/rehydration
[HYDRO-water]
the measles
(human) waste
stagnant, to
stagnate
to breed, a breed
a rodent
susceptible (to)
horrific
bubonic plague
plague, to plague
to wipe out
10 Worst Epidemics
doom
a casualty
an outbreak
to decimate
an epidemic
a pandemic
deadly
a ditch
a pillar
immunity, immune
(to)
chief among…
mortality rate
smallpox
a scab
confined
to spearhead
a death toll
staggering, to stagger
“to run its course”
a fatality
a strain
prior to
nausea
diarrhea
to run the risk of
to subside
to mutate
lethal
a corpse
to quarantine, in
quarantine
a peasant
The Black Death (the
bubonic plague)
a flea
pneumonic
to call into
question
hemorrhagic virus
ebola
to substantiate
to feed on
to pass on
to come by (s.t.)
an undertaking, to
undertake
to follow up on
DDT
to set out to
to pose a problem
to ravage
to waste away
a spine
to rage, a rage
to attribute to
a breakthrough
a comeback, to come
back
to lapse, a lapse
cholera
inadvertently,
inadvertent
mild
a cramp, to cramp,
cramped
to push for
sanitary
sewage
a thing of the past
to best
HIV positive
deficiency
a syndrome
opportunistic
to make the jump
from A to B
a transfusion
to deplete
to wage a campaign
yellow fever
to range from A to B
to go down in
history as
jaundice
obesity
chronic
filthy
lice
to put up with
a menace, to menace
devastating, to
devastate, devastation
typhus
starvation
to claim (a life)
to dictate
appetite
gangrene
pneumonia
delirium, delirious
a coma
cardiac
polio
millenia, a
millennium
paralyzing, to
paralyze
fecal, feces
stiffness
limbs (arms and
legs)
primary
a malady
to boost
to skyrocket
extinction
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