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Title: Good Morning!


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Good Morning!
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Writing For Myself
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Baker was bored by English courses.
Baker wrote about a topic.
Baker discovered his talent for writing.
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Questions On Details
  • What did the writer dream of in his childhood?
  • Had he ever hesitated in the process of realizing
    his dream?
  • What was he bored by?
  • How did he used to feel about English courses?

Let's have a look at paragraph one.
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occur to
from time to time
  • The idea of becoming a writer had come to me
    off and on since my childhood in Belleville,

occur to (of an idea) to come to somebodys
mind. e.g. It occurred to me that we could use a
computer to do the job.
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Words of Feelings
  • bored
  • tedious
  • dull
  • agony
  • lifeless
  • cheerless

I found English grammar dull and difficult.
How many cans can a canner can if a canner can
can cans?
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  • bored
  • boring

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be -ed
??
be -ing
??
be adj.
??
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  • excited/ exciting
  • satisfied/ satisfying
  • amused/ amusing
  • amazed/ amazing
  • disappointed/ disappointing
  • interested/ interesting
  • bored/ boring

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  • Until then Id been bored by everything
    associated with English course.

related to
connected with
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assign
I hated the assignments to turn out turn out
long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for
teachers to read and for me to write.
write, compose, put down
to put together


together
to put
to write or create (music, poetry, etc.)
comprise
to be formed from (the stated parts)
consist
constitute
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indecomposability
-able
??\??
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lifeless
n.

without
Adj.

hope
?
help

-less

care
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living
?
alive
live
We found her in coma, living but not alive.
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How to Describe A Person
  • formal
  • rigid
  • dull
  • inability to inspire
  • excessively prim
  • severe glasses
  • out of date
  • a comic antique

He was said to be very formal, rigid and
hopelessly out of date.
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  • formal/ former
  • inspire encourage inspiration
  • excessively

excessively exceedingly access
to go, to yield
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access
  • have access to have the right to use, have or
    reach.
  • My former husband has access to children on
    weekends.
  • All the students have access to library and
    computer centre.

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  • access
  • accumulate
  • accent
  • account
  • accustom
  • approach
  • appeal
  • appropriate
  • affect
  • assign
  • assemble
  • associate
  • assume

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How to Describe A Person
  • grateful
  • elegant
  • sincere
  • honest
  • considerate
  • humorous
  • kind-hearted
  • childlike/ childish
  • gentle
  • cynical
  • generous
  • paranoid
  • optimistic/ pessimistic
  • introvert/ extrovert
  • sulky
  • naive

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affect
  • affect
  • influence
  • effect
  • efficient
  • effective

Their efforts to improve their school have been
very________.
effective
efficient
Our _______ new machine are much cheaper to run.
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Unfruitful
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distribute
to
apart, away
to pay, to give, to bestow

The radio stations are distributed all over the
province.
This new machine distributes seed evenly and
quickly over the whole field.
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contribute
to put , to give, to bestow
together

to
____
____
attribute
to put, to give, to bestow
to, at, for

He attributed his success to hard work.
He attributed his failure to his teachers.
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On Account Of
  • on account of
  • take something into account
  • on no account
  • account for
  • by all accounts

because of
give proper consideration to
not for any reason
to be the cause or origin of
according to what everybody says
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How to Eat Spaghetti
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Spaghetti
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Some Table Manners
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Synonym in Context
dull turn out anticipate formal pleasure
lifeless, cheerless, tedious
write, compose, put down
prepare for
rigid, prim, respectable,correct
delight, happiness, enjoyment
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Synonym in Context
recapture contempt topic vivid memories of sth.
come flooding back to sb.
relive
ridicule
title
sth. reawakes in sb.s mind Sb. recalls sth.
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Key Words of Text
  • excessively
  • distribute
  • respectable
  • compose
  • particular

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Key Words of Text
  • adjust
  • ignore
  • raise
  • encounter
  • interval

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Read The Following Words
  • ampere
  • calorie
  • Pence
  • Ounce
  • volt
  • watt
  • ballet
  • bowling
  • cartoon
  • golf
  • Guitar
  • jazz
  • champagne
  • cigar
  • pudding
  • soda
  • toast
  • hormone
  • Vitamin
  • X-ray
  • Tyre/ tire
  • Heroin
  • opium
  • romantic
  • typhoon
  • utopia

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Read the Sentences
  • I often use baby shampoo to wash my little sons
    hair.
  • Penicillin is an effective medicine for reducing
    pain and diminishing inflammation (??).
  • One shouldnt drive after drinking whiskey.
  • Some scientists are against cloning, that is, to
    make a copy of a plant, animal or gene, in spite
    of some advantages that may be brought to the
    gene technology.
  • The old lady made a marathon speech of 6 hours
    which is a bore for everyone in the room.

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Assignments
  • Preview unit 4, unit 5 and unit 6
  • Do the exercise of unit 4, 5 and 6
  • Learn the words in those units by heart
  • Get ready for quiz 2
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