ENG 101 Lesson 1 PDF
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ENG 101 LESSON 1 Professor Dr. Surriya Shaffi Mir Exercise (i) Spelling: Use the dictionary to answer the following questions about spelling. a) What other possible spellings does your dictionary give for t...
ENG 101 LESSON 1 Professor Dr. Surriya Shaffi Mir Exercise (i) Spelling: Use the dictionary to answer the following questions about spelling. a) What other possible spellings does your dictionary give for these words? Theatre Catalogue b) Does your dictionary say anything about the spelling ‘theatre’ and ‘catalogue’. c) How is the past tense of the following verbs spelling? If there are two possibilities, write both. Theatre Catalogue Exercise (iv-a) Meaning: Lookup the words ‘fast’ and ‘set’. Write the total number of different meanings of each word. Include all the numbered and lettered meanings for each part of speech. Exercise (iv-b): Meaning/Explanation / Definition of words. Use the dictionary to find the specific meanings of the word ‘play’ in each of the following: 1.The boys like to play a on the hard court. 2.Amna will play the sitar in the concert. 3.The play produced by the arts club was a success. 4.It was a clever play that won the football game. 5.The gardener played the hose on the flower beds. 6.A ‘week without water can make one weak’ is a play on words. Exercise( vi-a )Usage Restrictive Labels: Idioms / Two-word Verbs / Phrasal Verbs / Noun Phrase Look up the underlined words in the following sentences & write their meanings. 1. Prof. Widdowson held forth for over an hour about the need for communication language teaching. 2. I don’t get how you found the answer. 3. My roommate is pretty hard up these days. Exercise (vi-b) Restrictive or Usage Labels: a) Look up the words / phrases, write whether its use is primarily slang, informal or colloquial. Guys Cool Example: Will it be O.K. if I met you at the library about eight. Label: Colloquial Meaning: All Right Exercise(viii)Foreign Words & Phrases: Look up each of these foreign words of phrases. Write its English meaning. et cetera, e.g., et al., a prior, coup d’état, per se.
