Language Knowledge

Lecture Four

Frontier Words

Basics

Vocabulary Contest

Basics

What are frontier words?

How to remember them?

How to deal with them in context?

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2

3

Could you tell me your current address?

The football captain addressed his team.

Don’t address me as “boss”.

Please wait a minute.

We read the minutes of last meeting.

Water containing minute quantities of lead.

1. Uncommon Meanings

1) a strip of advice

2) classify the students into 3 groups

3) dispose the waste

4) luxury life

5) vacant paper

piece

divide

dispose of

luxurious

blank

2. Incorrect Usages

patch

He is very poor, wearing a coat with several patches on it.

optical

He doesn’t have a very good eyesight because he was born with an optical defect.

3. Unfamiliar Words

Collocations

arise

progress

vacant

problems arise

make progress

vacant lot

v.+n.

n.+v.

a.+n.

Inferring Word Meaning

1. Unlike her gregarious sister, Jane is an unsociable person who does not like to go to parties or to make new friends.

compare and contrast

Inferring Word Meaning

2. Ecology is the scientific study of the pattern of relations of plants, animals and people to each other and to their surroundings.

definition

3. Many ships leave land and disappear completely; the U.S. Cyclops, for example, vanished in 1918.

Inferring Word Meaning

4. The major points of your plan are clear to me, but the details are still hazy.

5. The orbits of the earth and other planets are not perfect circles, but ellipses.

logical relationship

Inferring Word Meaning

6. Alice shouted into the cave calling her brother, but the only sound she heard was the echo of her own voice.

7. I felt my heart pounding as I went on stage to collect the prize.

common sense

Vocabulary Contest

Lightening Round

Finding Matches

Jigsaw Puzzle

1

2

3

×10

×20

×10

Lightening Round

Cues

first letter of the word

part of speech

explanation

paraphrase

example

sentence

synonym/antonym

performance4 Rounds

1st and 2nd: 2 minutes

3rd and 4th: 1 minute

1. swear

2. temporary

3. interpret

4. harsh

A Trial

Group One-1

1. anxiety

2. bacteria

3. bulb

4. resume

5. yield

We resumed our work after rest.

Send a resume to the employer.

It’s an investment yielding high percentages.

Never yield to your enemies.

Group Two-1

1. accelerate

2. globe

3. laundry

4. multiply

5. signature

decelerate

add, subtract, divide

Group Three-1

1. affect

2. candidate

3. obstacle

4. orchestra

5. tissue

influence, effect

Group Four-1

1. atmosphere

2. dialect

3. faculty

4. guarantee

5. prosperity

ability, capacitystaff

assure sb. sth.

prosperous

Group One-2

6. biscuit

7. abstract

8. exceed

9. impact

10. minority majority

Group Two-2

6. acquaintance

7. arithmetic

8. deceive

9. issue

10. starve

be acquainted with

deceive sb. into

Group Three-2

6. abandon

7. boast

8. gymnasium

9. tolerate

10. virtue

abandon oneself to

bear, stand

by virtue of

Group Four-2

6. bargain

7. luxury

8. necessity

9. strategy

10. rural

luxurious

necessary

urban

Group One-3

11. vigorous

12. abundant

13. blend

14. constitute

15. digest

be abundant in

digest the food

Reader’s Digest

Group Two-3

11. executive

12. filter

13. hazard

14. privilege

15. sustain

CEO

maintain, retain

Group Three-3

11. margin

12. circuit

13. petroleum

14. shield

15. welfare

book margincliff edgecountry border

shelter

Group Four-3

11. assemble

12. cement

13. descend

14. latter

15. package

decrease, decline

assembly line

Group One-4

16. awkward

17. fierce

18. insult

19. opponent

20. harmony harmonious

clumsy

Group Two-4

16. permanent

17. statistic

18. participate

19. resist

20. concrete

temporary

cementabstract

Group Three-4

16. geometry

17. inherit

18. purchase

19. receipt

20. utility

receive

Group Four-4

16. remedy

17. secure

18. discard

19. victim

20. fortnight

dispose of

Finding Matches

1. Each group gets 10 collocations

2. Every collocation is split into two halves

3. Go around your group and find the other half of your collocation

1. abandon one’s home

2. verify the hypothesis

3. sophisticated technology

4. harsh punishment

5. fierce fight

6. impose a tax

7. address the audience

8. bold actions

9. rational behavior

10.compromise one’s reputation

Group One

Group Two

1. exceed the speed limit

2. minute inspection

3. fair game

4. bound for home

5. grind the teeth

6. prominent teeth

7. abuse authority

8. a strip of paper

9. mean motive

10.harness one’s energy

Group Three

1. mighty blow

2. pitch a tent

3. humble cottage

4. rival companies

5. severe pain

6. strain a muscle

7. abstract concept

8. a stroke of lightening

9. submit the paper

10.valid methods

Group Four

1. suspend the trial

2. spare tyre

3. terminal exam

4. steer the ship

5. awkward pose

6. forge a signature

7. the realm of science

8. social welfare

9. assemble a machine

10.halt the advance of history

Jigsaw Puzzle

1. doitcoriatncn

2. oicitedasspth

3. refaciciett

4. lertaivc

5. licrcaeut

1. contradiction

2. sophisticated

3. certificate

4. vertical

5. circulate

Jigsaw Puzzle

6. cnuesain

7. ciatplo

8. tmdaiereenit

9. pmtelupens

10. aegnfrmt

6. nuisance

7. optical

8. intermediate

9. supplement

10. fragment

Assignment

1. Review all the words in the handout

2. 《强化篇》分项训练简答题 Passage 1, 3, 5

Have a lot of fun!