Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM
Use your dictionary Working with words: Words to describe other words Here are some words which we use to describe other words. Use a dictionary to match them with the examples and then write a definition. 7 Examples: 1 knew/new 2 Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays ./Our dog plays with our cat all the time. 3 madam 4 Astronomer = Moon Starer 5 The wind is strong today./Don’t forget to wind up the string. 6 asap (as soon as possible) What do the following signs and abbreviations mean? Check with your dictionary. 8 With the help of a dictionary, find the difference between: 9 Find out how to pronounce the following words. 10 Find the homophones (= words that sound the same). Example: wait – weight 11 Example Definition anagram homophone homonym homograph palindrome acronym aeroplane – airplane breath – breathe prophecy – prophesy lu:s – lu:z sensitive – sensible affect – effect murder – murderer }kntrA:st – kn}trA:st quay [ ___________ ] psychology [ ___________ ] Arkansas [ ___________ ] cleanliness [ ___________ ] machine [ ___________ ] hotel [ ___________ ] previous [ ___________ ] donkey [ ___________ ] Edinburgh [ ___________ ] wait weight air knead bare fair him sew right a. b.s. dial. fig. lit. obs. pl. p.p. rhet. s. sl. v/i. 161 3 Compact unit 3: “Words are all we have” Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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