What Does One Refer To? Do You Remember When (And How) to Use One and Ones?

–What does ‘one’ refer to? Do you remember when (and how) to use one and ones?

Have you heard this one? That’s a good one.

–Do you know any collocation with joke? Try to fill in the chart below.

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/ /

prepositional phrase

to play

practical

on somebody

–Do these words/concepts mean the same for you? Think about your associations, and discuss the similarities and differences with your partner.

wisdom ~ knowledge

–Match the beginning of these quotations with their appropriate endings. Then, try to explain their meaning using your own words.

<1 If something is made so simple that fools can use it, / (a) and some are otherwise. (Tobias Smollett)
<2 Age doesn’t always bring wisdom, / (b) he poses the right questions. (Claude Levi-Strauss)
<3 The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, / (c) not to wish to know is worse. (anonymous)
<4 Some folks are wise, / (d) once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. (Abba Eban)
<5 Not to know is bad, / (e) only fools will use it. (anonymous)
<6 Wise men learn more from fools, / (f) sometimes age comes alone. (unknown)
<7 Men and nations behave wisely / (g) than fools from the wise. (Cato)
<8 He’s a fool / (h) who cannot conceal his wisdom. (Benjamin Franklin)

v The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom. (Frank Whitmore)

v Information isn’t wisdom. Information isn’t learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn’t be educated. You’d be weird. (David McCullough)

v There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. (Democritus)

Definitions from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English