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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Word Roots (list 2) - With your partner, try to think of one or two words to explain the meaning of each root
- cert (certain, ascertain, certificate) = sure
- chrom (monochrome, achromatic) = color
- chron (chronological, anachronism, synchronize) = time
- circum (circumscribe, circumspect, circumnavigate) = around
- claim/clam (exclaim, proclamation, clamor) = yell
- clar (clarify, declare) = clear
- cline (inclination, decline, recline) = lean
- co (coworker, coeducational, coauthor) = together
- col before L: (collaborate, colleague)
- com before M, P, B: (communicate, composition, combine)
- cor before R: (correlate, corroborate)
- con before other consonants except H: (concatenate, condone, confer)
- (co before vowels, H, and in new words: coauthor, coeducation, coincidence, copilot, coworker)
- cogni (cognizance, incognito) = know/think
- contra (contrast, contradict, controversy) = against/opposite (This is “con” plus “tra”, which more or less adds a direction to other roots.)
- corp (corporation, corpse, incorporate) = body
- cred (credible, credit, credulous) = belief/trust
- crypto (cryptography, cryptic, encrypt) = hidden/secret (Many words that start with this root have to do with hiding information with codes.)
- dem/demo (demographics, democracy, epidemic, pandemic) = people
- di/de (decelerate, dethrone, decrease, divide, diverge) = down/away
- di/du (dilemma, dihedral, dual) = two
- dia (diameter, dialect) = through/between
- dict (dictator, dictionary, contradict) = say/tell
- domin (dominate, dominion, predominate) = master
- don (donate, pardon) = give
- duce/duct (introduction, deduct, conduct) = lead/take
- dyna (dynamic, dynamite, dynasty) = power/motion
- dys (dysfunction, dystopia, dyslexia) = bad (the opposite prefix is “eu”)
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- Reading Question Types:
- - purpose
- - fact
- - negative fact
- - inference
- - vocabulary
- - paraphrase
- - reference/pronoun
- - sentence insertion
- - summarize
- - organize
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- Reference questions ask you to identify what a pronoun or other word or phrase refers to.
- Cambridge exercise R4 - In your own words, identify what each underlined phrase refers to.
- 1 themselves = arctic people
- they = arctic people
- these natural resources = the environment and wild animals
- 2 who = “groups” or “individuals”
- their = political prisoners
- 3 when = 1863
- he = the Hungarian count
- the first European variety = wine grapes
- there = California
- 4 the lawyer and lexicographer = Noah Webster
- who = Webster
- at this time = 1828
- that = the English
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- Cengage 6.1 - Do the same thing for the highlighted words and phrases in these passages.
- 1 them = paintings
- 2 their = flowers
- 3 its = water
- 4 those = the principles
- itself = the human body
- 5 themselves = strands
- 6 These pieces = smaller pieces
- 7 they = leaves
- 8 their = ancient Minoans
- their = archaeological sites
- 9 these organisms = mushrooms and other fungi
- 10 some of which = machines
- 11 they = glaciers
- those = glaciers
- 12 this method = satellite photography
- 13 them = American importers
- 14 where = New York City
- the time = the 1920s
- there = Paris
- 15 this creature = anemone
- it = the nest
- 16 his = Hamlin Garland
- his mentor = William Dean Howells
- 17 they = fats
- these = basic types of nutrients
- which = the fat-soluble vitamins
- some = fats
- 18 there = the Wisconsin Dells
- others = strange formations
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- https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-state-of-emergency - Updated information about COVID in Massachusetts.
- edge case = a situation that doesn’t really fit well into either of two (or more) categories
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- BREAK
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- Longman Reading Exercise 2 - Take 4 minutes to answer the reference questions about these short passages
- Animal Congregation
- 1 C
- 2 C or B
- 3 A
- 4 A - The predator will encounter the confusing mass of the group.
- New World Epidemics
- 10 A
- 11 C
- 12 A
- 13 B - “[the answer] has been estimated at as much as an 80 percent decrease”
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- Cengage 6.2 - take a few seconds to do number 6 (since the other ones are already marked on the scan)
- D - The minerals are what we’d want to save in the mining process.
- Take 3 minutes for passage 2
- 7 B
- 8 A
- 9 C
- 10 C
- passage 3
- 11 A
- 12 A
- 13 D
- 14 B
- 15 B
- passage 4
- 16 C
- 17 C
- 18 D
- 19 A
- 20 B
- - If a pronoun can grammatically refer to either of two nouns in the previous sentence or clause, it usually refers to the subject of that clause. (This is especially true if the pronoun is also the subject of its own clause.)
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- Read the Wired article about turning corpses into compost. Identify the referents of pronoun expressions, and define other highlighted vocabulary in your own words.
- bay = large enclosed space
- That timeline = four to six weeks
- livestock = animals raised for food
- carcass = dead body of an animal
- just that = (try) composting in a vertical system
- aerate = ventilate; add air
- loam = soil, often from composting organic material
- That = the idea that “we really are part of this system that’s greater than ourselves” in contrast to the desire to be sure the remains are only from one person (The hard sell is specifically the fact that the soil you take home may include remains of other people.)
- That = a small clientele
- local vernacular = local way of doing things (aesthetics, culture, etc.) (A vernacular is usually an informal way of speaking, but here it has a wider meaning.)
- suffused = gently filled
- foster = produce/generate (support)
- That = the range of possibilities for customized mourning rituals
- frills = unneeded “extras” or decorations
- embrace = accept/adopt
- folks = people (informal; friendly)
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- Homework: Finish Cengage exercise 6.2 (passages 5 and 6)
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