confusion in the message due to faulty pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, and to observe the social and cultural rules that apply in each communication situation. Speaking involves three areas of knowledge: * Using the right words in the right order with the correct pronunciation (Mechanics) * Knowing when clarity of message is essential and when precise understanding is not required (Functions) * Understanding how to take into account who is speaking to
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BLENDING English has a rather smooth sentence rhythm. The sounds are connected from one word to another to another within a phrase. As a mechanical aid to blending during drill work, the student may consider the last sound of the first word part of the second word. Examples: 1. Is it raining hard today? 2. You must not adopt/an articulation pattern/ that calls attention to itself./// Verb + pronoun: * Do it> du it * Call her > caler Preposition of measurement: * a cup
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of the |4. Types of word meaning. Word |5. Change of meaning in English. |№ 6 Polysemy in English. |№ 7 Homonymy in English. Polysemy vs| |linguistics. Lexical units. |English lexicon. |meaning and motivation. |Word-meaning is liable to change in |1. The semantic structure of the |homonymy | |Lexicology (from Gr lexis ‘word’ and|The term “etymology” comes from |Types of word meaning |the
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share moment and be there for them when they needed. I think the most important person in the life of everyone is the member of his family.The simple word “family” can conjure up many meanings, images and emotions. They could be warm and pleasant, at the same time they can be sad and dismal. But for most, the word “family” is one of the greatest words in the world, it brings a lot of unforgettable and joyful memories about their childhood and past, enormous number of happy and funny moments, and of
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with the same duties, but vary in salary, benefits, company size, and distance from your home. Using the additive decision making model, outline the process you would go through to determine which job is best for you. Explain why. a. I have tallied up each benefit as a score. I have given each perk a score of -5 or +5 to give my deciding factor. The job with the highest score has the most benefits for me. Job #1 Salary: $35,000 -5 Benefits: medical insurance paid +5; 5 days paid vacation
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a situation teacher makes a child stand on the corner for not knowing the difference between two words “persimmons” and “precision”. The boy does not know well about two words because his native language is Chinese not English. So his mental ability to distinguish two similar pronounced words “persimmons” and “precision” is not formed yet. But the boy thinks there are some connections between two words. It is revealed in the second stanza. To eat a persimmon, we need precision. At first we have to
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General English Directions—(Q. 1–12) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. Keshava, the washerman had a donkey. They worked together all day, and Keshava would pour out his heart to the doneky. One day, Keshava was walking home with the donkey when he felt tired. He tied the donkey to a tree and sat down to rest for a while, near a school. A window was open
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utter jargon. After having worked for the Smaller Works Corporation he became so utterly exasperated with the terribly long and confusing words and sent a memo saying that any such gobbledygook used should be banned and that “anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot!”(Lior.). He then revealed that his inspiration for coming up with such a word to describe this way of talking was how it resembled the gobbling of turkeys thus the name gobbledygook. He also explains that “the ‘gook’
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Kacie Kondrotis Professor Goodwin 9/15/14 Words Don’t Mean What They Mean Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard University, is the author of “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean”. He argues that there are many categories in which people transfer information and progress to settle that relation. He expresses that phrases convey meanings in the context being used and how this can help or decrease communication between humans. Pinker declares that our language is used through many
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Players | Material | Time | 1 | I Spy | Write many words on a blank piece of paper in random order and positioned at all angles. Make copies of the page for each of your students to have one. To play, you read a word to your class. They race to find that word on the page. The first one to find it reads it out loud and then circles it or crosses it out. That person scores one point. Then wait until everyone in class has found the word. Read a second word, and students then search for that one on the page
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