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- Greg Malivuk
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- Homework: find a mnemonic (a poem or song or action, that helps you remember some important information) from your country/language, to talk about on Monday
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- Beer before liquor: never been sicker.
- Liquor before beer: you’re in the clear.
- (This is the opposite of the one on your handout, which means it’s probably useless advice.)
- Rule of thumb: a general fast rule that isn’t completely accurate but is usually close enough
- i before e except after c or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh.
- (However, there are many exceptions for this, such as “weird”.)
- When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking. (“ai” sounds like “a”, “ie” sounds like “i”, etc.)
- rat / rate
- pet / Pete
- bit / bite
- rot / rote
- cut / cute
- (silent ‘e’ makes the preceding vowel “long”)
- SOH-CAH-TOA
- sine = opposite/hypotenuse
- cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse
- tangent = opposite/adjacent
- It is May 18, 2015, in the Gregorian calendar.
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- textbook p. 23 part 5a (noun formation and pronunciation)
- With a partner, make the noun form of each word. (Most have suffixes added to the end, a few change completely, such as afraid -> fear.)
- adulthood
- fear (-> afeared -> afraid)
- shame (-> ashamed)
- belief (live-life, bathe-bath, use-use)
- boredom
- celebration
- childhood
- competition
- death (die-death, bear-birth, heal-health, steal-stealth)
- freedom
- friendship (My friendship with Nora is very important to me.)
- happiness
- hate/hatred (“hate” is the emotion itself, “hatred” is the condition of feeling hate)
- imagination
- illness
- kindness
- loss (pronunciation has the same /z/ -> /s/ pattern as use-use, etc.)
- membership
- neighborhood (British: neighbourhood)
- partnership
- poverty
- relationship
- sadness
- wisdom
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