2015-02-19 Communication: sounds & marriage

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: Choose one person you see on your way to school. Invent a story about that person's life: where are they from? what do they do? what are they like?
	- p. 161 vocabulary about sounds and the human voice
1 b
1 tick (a big clock goes "tick-tock")
2 sniff
3 click
4 splash
5 bang
6 creak
7 buzz (whine)
8 hoot (AmEng: people honk at a yellow light)
9 tap
10 slurp
11 hiss
12 drip
13 roar
14 whistle
15 hum
16 slam
17 crunch
18 snore
19 rattle
20 screech, crash
onomatopoeia: when a word sounds similar to the thing it means (buzz)

sound symbolism: where part of the sound of a word gives special information about the meaning of the word ("sn" for words about the nose)
nose words: sniff, snore, snooze, snot, snort, snuff, snout, snorkel
"ee" and "i" mean small things: chirp, teeny, tiny, tweet
"o" and "oo" mean big things: woof, huge, gargantuan

part 2
1 scream
2 yell
3 giggle
4 whisper
5 mumble
6 groan
7 stammer (= stutter)
8 sob
9 sigh
(lisp: a speech impediment where 's' sounds like 'th')
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p. 46 4 d
1 depend on their husbands to provide money for the family
2 made it difficult to have enough space and enough money
3 don't say something I want to say
4 apply for the deputy head position
5 becoming teenagers
6 sick because someone else has something I wish I had
7 he will never have nearly as much money
8 complain about
9 make some of his absences more tolerable
10 without his knowing
11 there are a lot of benefits from...
   there are a lot of arguments you can make in favor of...
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Homework: p. 162 (Money vocabulary)