Kamis, 19 Mei 2011

Excercises

Excercises

If you find these exercises difficult, if may mean that you need to practice using a dictionary more often, or you need to buy yourself a better dictionary.

3.1    Use a dictionary to find/check the answers to these question.(They are all based on words from the opposite page.)
1.      What does dreadful mean ?
2.      How do you pronounce lose? (Is the same as ‘choose’ or ‘chose’?)
3.      What part of speech is choose?
4.      What part or speech is homesick?
5.      Homework and chaos are both nouns, but what type of noun are they?
6.      What adjectives are often used before chaos?(Give two)
7.      What two prepositions are often used after choose?
8.      Write down a sentence example of choose used with a preposition.

3.2    When you look up a word, you can also use your dictionary to increase your vocabulary by learning related words and phrases. Find out if  your dictionary helps you to answer these questions, also about words from the opposite page.
1.      Choose is a verb, but what is the noun with thw same meaning?
2.      Advice is a noun, but what is the verb with same meaning?
3.      Advice is also uncountable, but you can make it countable using another word. Can you complete this sentence: ‘He gave me a very useful………… of advice?
4.      What adjective is formed from chaos?
5.      What is the opposite of dirty?
6.      What is the difference between homework and housework?
7.      What is the opposite of lose a game?
8.      What is the opposite of lose weight?
9.      Law often appears in the phrase law and…………. What is the missing word?
10.  If you want to sit at a table in a cafĂ© and you see that one person is sitting there already, but another seat is empty, what can you say to the person sitting down?

3.4    Look at the entry for suit on the right, then match the definitions with the sentences on the left.
1.      I’m afraid black doesn’t suit me-my hair is the wrong colour.
2.      A : I’m not going, so don’t ask again.
B: Ok. Suit yourself.
3.      If we have the meeting this afternoon, would 2.30 suit you?