LANGUAGE FEEDBACK FROM SEMINARS AND WRITTEN WORK

Confusibles

Write sentences to illustrate the difference between the following words(CHECK IN WORD AND PHRASE OR A GOOD MONOLIGUAL DICTIONARY)

Wealth vs richness

Damage vs damages

Corrupt vs corrupted

Get in touch with vs come into contact with

Gain vs earn

PRONUNCIATION – confusibles

YOU MAY HAVE TO LOOK THESE UP IN A DICTIONARY

Roguevaguevoguecolleaguecollege

treatthreathealthelf

wordworlddeafdeath

hitseatspromisepromising

decidedecisiveallyalliance

corpscorpselawlow

How are these foreign words pronounced in English?

Dossiercoup d’étatguerrillavice versa

Statustraumahypothesesfaunaopaque

Identify where the main stress falls in the following words:

reportsupportdebateconsent

What sound is added to the following words?

Cynicism tourismscepticismcriticismterrorism

How do you pronounce these words? (some we have already met!!!!)

Urbanoccurredalliancepeasantscasualties

Promisesbombingacceptablepsychologicalmaintain

IraqIranequipmentweapons

Ad what about these acroyms?

WWFEUUNICEFNATOWTO

MISCELLANYCORRECT FORMS IN CAPITALS – ANYTHING IN BRACKETS SHOULD BE REMOVED

  1. To analyse whichWHAT consequences it provokes
  2. Which WHAT are the reasons ChinesE people supported Mao’s leadership?
  3. Which WHATwas the action of the communist party around the world?WHAT DID THE CP DO AROUND THE WORLD?
  4. To give you an idea of what are the most important issue in…..WHAT THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES ARE
  5. Nowadays I don’t know how is the situation. …..WHAT THE SITUATION IS LIKE
  6. There are a lot of othersOTHER projects around the world
  7. One of the most effective solutionS to the problem of deforestation
  8. Can you explain (me) what is a faction inside…..
  9. Here are some data(s)
  10. Different kinds of war operationS on the ground
  11. Why DID the use of drones becOme so diffuse under Obama?
  12. If drone strikes (would) became more precise….
  13. If these huge resources (would)cAmeunader the control….
  14. In the long term totally unusefulPOINTLESS
  15. In exchange FOR (of)
  16. We should see how it goes HOW THINGS GO(i.e. we can’t pass judgement at the moment)
  17. According to the last esteemESTIMATE
  18. In order to understand deeply the ……. TO UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION IN DEPTH
  19. acquired(a) remarkable importance
  20. as(it) happened before
  21. we hope we were not too (much) boring
  22. these are all actualCURRENT topics
  23. They really don’t want to do nothingANYTHING

Decide which of the following sentences are correct and which are’t

  1. Quayle wants to findwhat his wife was hiding from him.
  2. Tessa's death, during a mysterious trip with Arnold, shakes Justin who abandons his plans to find why his wife died.
  3. who is determined to find out the truth about her wife brutal murder.
  4. Tessa starts to find evidences(s)of illegal experiment(ations) of TBC vaccine performed by the multinational corporation KDC
  5. Such researches will lead him into the darkest spheres of the activities of multinational corporations and governments
  6. It is the case of the investments of the pharmaceutical companies for research on medicines
  7. Indeed, researches showed that people still vote following identity and communitarian impulses
  8. But when Tessa starts working on a mysterious research with an African doctor, they gradually grow apart.
  9. As a political thriller, the pace is too slow, as a drama, the pace is too fast: too few action to be a thriller, to few development of characters to be a drama.
  10. Few, clear data wereprovided
  11. a woman with a few years of formal education is considerably more likely to send her children to school
  12. Indeed the European Union has designated few funds for Triton and moreover some countries such as United Kingdom have even refused to take part in the operation.
  13. These are only few of the situations concerning women and education that are still not solved.
  14. The indecisive and naive diplomat will, at the end, complete his transformation fighting for the life of a local girl
  15. At the end of the film, it seems also that the female protagonist had influenced a significant change in the behavior of her husband and her treatment of her.
  16. At the end, he makes the story of Justine and Tessa overtake the claim for a deeper social analysis
  17. Tessa’sdeathstirs Justin INtotakINGhis head out of his garden to start looking for the truthabouthermurder. He willnotrestuntil he findsthat.
  18. as they have done until UP TO now,
  19. their future will not change untilAS LONG ASit is managed by the thirsty hands color of the snow.

To end on a positive note, here are some of the phrases you used very well.

That is whymoving on toThis is clearly not enough

Let’s have a look at….Sum up the differencesNow let’s move on to….

I’d like you to elaborate a little bit more on….