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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- History of Cats TED-Ed
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- Reading practice test (ETS 1.1) - Take 60 minutes to answer the questions about all three passages.
- Submit your answers online when you’re finished.
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- 19 - vocabulary - D (The point is that the paintings are alone on bare rock walls with no other images or decoration.)
- 14 - summary - C D E
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- BREAK
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- 2 - inference - B (If they need to move out of the highlands to survive in the winter, it must be because food isn’t available there.)
- 29 - vocabulary - B (“grow up” is something people do when they mature and become adults)
- 32 - paraphrase - C (A is false, B doesn’t mention petroleum, D doesn’t mention temperature and pressure)
- 37 - vocabulary - B (A slope is an incline.)
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- Vocbulary: Business and Economics
- Handout - match each word (bolded in the sentences) to its definition
- 1 V (economic - adj, economist - n)
- 2 K
- 3 D
- 4 G (inflate - v, inflationary - adj; opposite is “deflation”)
- 5 V
- 6 C
- 7 L (capitalize - v, capitalization - n, capitalist - n, capitalism - n)
- 8 R (invest - v, investment - n)
- 9 S (shareholder - n)
- 10 T (budgetary - adj)
- 11 J (allocation - n)
- 12 O
- 13 M (generation - n, generator - n)
- 14 P (profitable - adj, profitability - n)
- 15 I (measurement - n)
- 16 U
- 17 N (promotion - n, promoter - n)
- 18 H (market - v, marketing - n, marketable - adj)
- 19 Q
- 20 A
- 21 F (competition - n, competitor - n, competitive - adj; Any time two or more entities have the same goal, which they can’t both get, it’s a competition.)
- 22 D (consume - v, consumption - n, consumerism - n)
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- Collins p. 45 part A - Replace the italic words with words from the other handout.
- 1 a compete
- b consumer
- 2 a budget
- b economy
- 3 a investors
- b capital
- 4 a measured
- b output
- 5 a Inflation
- b crisis
- 6 a sector
- b generates
- 7 a firms
- b promote
- 8 a demand
- b supply
- part B
- 1 promoting
- 2 firm
- 3 consumers
- 4 market
- 5 competitive
- 6 demand
- 7 profit
- 8 budget
- 9 allocated
- 10 supply
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- What is the difference between these pairs of words?
- lend/borrow
- lend = give temporarily
- borrow = take temporarily
- loan/mortgage
- loan = money borrowed from a bank (with a specific repayment plan)
- mortgage = loan for the purpose of buying a house or other real property
- debt/debit
- debt = the amount of money owed to someone else
- debit = remove an amount of money from the balance of an account
- wage/salary
- wage = amount of money earned per hour of work
- salary = amount of money earned per year (not directly tied to hours worked)
- shares/stocks
- shares = individual units of a company’s stock
- stocks = a collection of stocks from different companies (e.g. on the stock market)
- worthless/priceless
- worthless = with no (or negligible) value; you could just throw it in the garbage and be done
- priceless = with so much (possibly non-monetary) value that you can’t put a price on it
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