Water is probably the second most important thing that humans need, and that was the topic of Vasily's presentation today. What is the first? No, not English. I would say oxygen. Maybe that will be the topic of his next presentation. At any rate, now we know all about the water, what it's composed of, how much of the earth's surface is composed of it, how much of it we are composed of, etc! I think Vasily would make a great teacher someday!
On a sad note, today we said good bye to Soon Ok and Amanda. Although Amanda was in our class for only two weeks, she made a huge impression on all of us. Good luck! And thank you Soon Ok for stopping in to say good-bye. You did a great job. We'll miss both of you!
Today we went over Focus points 6 and 7 in Grammar Dimensions. Please do Exercises 12 and 13 on pages 77 and 78. Be sure you understand how to use passive as explained in Focus 7.
AM Proficiency Week Six
Study Sheet
Study Grammar Dimensions Unit
4. Pay special attention to the homework
exercises that we covered: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
Grammar Dimensions Unit 4
Grammar Dimensions p 60-1
to retain/ retention
to characterize
to recall/ recall (N)
to contradict/contradiction
serial/series
Grammar Dimensions
p62-3
a recipient
to alter/alteration
misleading/to mislead
to set off
a chunk
a bucket
Grammar Dimensions p64-6
to beat (defeat)
an anthem
to tally
a specimen
a bundle/to bundle/to bundle up
to register/a register
a hemisphere
a stroke (medical condition) [to strike]
Grammar Dimensions p67-8
a custodian
deliberate/to deliberate
a ramp
a complex (buildings)
a (mountain) ridge
formidable
a stronghold
Grammar Dimensions p69
(learn all
the stative verbs)
to engage in
fulfillment
to pursue/pursuit
a component of
well-being
impulsive/an impulse
to trigger/a trigger
vigorous/vigor
Grammar Dimensions p72-3
primate
superstitious
an insult/ to insult
to allege/an allegation/alleged/allegedly
theft
a pup/a puppy
to give birth to
(in) captivity/a captive/
Grammar Dimensions p75 (ex 12)
a bout of s.t.
greedy
larva/larvae
a boomerang/to boomerang
an eel
Grammar Dimensions p76
amber
symmetrical
Grammar Dimensions p77 (ex 13)
cognitive/cognition
lava
a glacier
a rim
form an attachment to
a caretaker
Grammar Dimensions p78 (ex 14)
legendary/ a legend
a vertebrate/an invertebrate
grease/greased
warfare
Raise The Issues
Raise the Issues p104
to spawn/a spawn of
to assimilate/assimilation
an exodus
an invasion/to invade
to patrol/to patrol
a smuggler/smuggling/to smuggle
a cartel
cargo
tranquility/tranquil/a tranquilizer
multifaceted/a facet
unprecedented/a precedent/to precede
sovereign
to split s.t. up/to split up
crops
to pick (crops, fruit, etc.)
Raise the Issues
“Ángels in America”
a descendant
to violate/a violation
welfare (government financial assistance)
relative to
to drop out of (school)
an underclass
to sneak s.o.
to fall apart
to press a case
Raise the Issues
Listening
to change one’s mind
arid
sparse, sparsely
a plain
barbed wire (fence)
a heap, to heap
litter, to litter, littered
a dump, to dump
a wasteland
treacherous
…at will
appealing
a barrier
an intrusion
rubbish
manual, manually
to clear
heritage
rule of law
prosperity
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