How to Use Dictionaries

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How to Use Dictionaries

• Last updated October 13, 2009
• PPDV 0155
• Helen Chan

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What you will learn today

• How to use different types of dictionaries
• How to find words and their meanings

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Types of Dictionaries

• Picture Dictionaries
• Single language dictionaries
• English to English
• Arabic to Arabic
• Translation Dictionaries
• English to Arabic
• Arabic to English
• Multilingual dictionaries
• English to Arabic to French

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Picture Dictionaries

• Organized by topics
• Good for vocabulary

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Go to the Contents
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Go to Page 140

• What does this picture mean?

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Directions and Traffic Signs

• Go back to the CONTENTS
• On what page can you find information about
• Directions and Traffic Signs?

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Page 107

• What does this phrase mean?
• Pedestrian crossing

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English to Arabic Dictionaries

• Gives you the Arabic meanings for words in
  English
• On what page can you find the word
• emigrate

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Reading an entry
Part of Speech N noun ADJ adjective V verb
Arabic word
English word
Pronunciation
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English to English Dictionaries

• Gives you the
• Spelling
• Pronunciation
• Part of speech
• Meaning(s)
• Example of the word in a sentence

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Go to Opposites

• Page 262
• What is the opposite of
• loose?

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Go to Letter Writing

• Page 298
• What are 3 ways to end a formal letter?
• Yours faithfully,
• Yours sincerely,
• Yours truly,
• What is the difference between formal and
  informal?

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Look up the word EMPLOYEE

• Is the word a noun, adjective or verb?
• What does it mean?
• Is there an example of this word in a sentence?

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• Show it to your teacher when you finish.