Friday Homework, Study Sheet UPDATE!

First of all, I want to apologize to Vasily for forgetting about his presentation.  This is the third time he was unable to present, so it really was a shame.  On Monday, I will certainly say to him, "Please DO do your presentation," and if I stupidly forget again, please do remind me!

There's not so much homework for this weekend: just Exercise 6 on pages 413-414.  I'll prepare an answer sheet for you on Monday so that you can check your answers.

Please look over the vocabulary sheet (which I've posted below) and be sure you understand all the words and expressions.  Bring your questions!

NEW! For those of you who check this blog often!  Please focus on the following homework exercises to prepare for the test:  Exercise 4 (p410), Exercise 6 (p413-414)  Also, I will include sentences in which you have to underline the words which are emphasized in speech. 

e.g., He is a native speaker, you know.)

Also, I will ask you to rewrite some correct sentences based on the grammar in Focus 3.

e.g., He didn't have any training >  He had no training.

Pretty easy stuff!  

There will also be a listening section from the text, which I will play twice.  Also, I'll write on the board some of the proper nouns (names and places) that you'll hear.  It will be the first time you've heard this recording, so listen carefully, take good notes, and you'll do fine.  The questions will be fairly basic.  After the test, we'll listen again and read the tapescript.

And hear Vasily's presentation!

Proficiency Week 3 Study Sheet

Grammar Dimensions Unit 23

Grammar Dimensions p407

a striver/to strive

fulfill

a doer

to resent/resentment/resentful

intrusion/ to intrude/ an intruder

trendy/ a trend

conventional/ a convention

impulsive/ an impulse

avid

commitment/ to commit

stability/ stable/ to stabilize

image

prestige/ prestigious

a peer/ peerless

mature

sophisticated

Grammar Dimensions p408

world-class

Grammar Dimensions p411

to look after s.t./s.o.

to lock s.o. out

I bet…

Grammar Dimensions 413-414

a principle

consequences

to be entitled to

to take for granted

humble

Raise the Issues

indigenous

to take to

to dodge

to weep (wept/wept)/ a weeping

to give up s.t.

to encounter/an encounter

to figure out

to strut

to field (questions)

inevitable

to bring s.t. full circle/to come full circle

a gaping hole

an orphan/an orphanage

to be reluctant to

criterion (sing.)/criteria (plural)

to gape

to halt

a broker

to adopt s.t./adoptive/adoption

to adapt to

celebrity

Listening

to drop s.o. off

a weaving/to weave (wove/woven)

to toss

a warehouse

to don (clothes)

decked-out in (wearing)

   He was decked out in a tuxedo

to flap

to flop

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overwhelming/to overwhelm

to impose

sanctions

a petition

drastic

to mock

to fathom

on a par with

rhetoric/rhetorical

humiliating

drastic

to resort to

to erupt

a tenure

abuse (N)

retaliation/in retaliation for/to retaliate

to preach

to bar

whistle-blowing/to blow the whistle on

maltreatment

a hierarchy

to call for

               s.t. applies to   (e.g., The suggestions on this blog apply only to Proficiency students)