IV Key to the Exercis of Lesson Four
Pre-class
II.
Listen to the recording of the text, read it through, and then fill in the blanks in the following ntences to e whether you have grasped the main ideas of the article.
1.fairy tale; Oscar Wilde; Irish; nightingale; reddest ro; life-blood
2.a red ro; his love would not dance with him; it was winter; desperate
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3.help the student; would not have any red ro; agree to sing to it by moonlight with her breast against a thorn; it pierced her heart; her heart’s blood
4.true love was better even than life; sacrifice her life
5.died; his love; had agreed to dance; red jewels
6.stupid; practical; to his books
More Work on the Text
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II Vocabulary行政许可的设定
1.Practice using the rules of word formation
1) Examine how the compound nouns from the text are formed. Work out their meanings. Add more words that are formed in the same way.
The compound nouns are formed by noun +noun
2) Examine how the word “sincerity” is formed. Find out the meaning of the
noun suffix “-ty” with the help of a dictionary.
sincerity: sincere + -ty
The suffix “-ty”, from French, is ud to form abstract nouns that refer to the state of ha
ving a particular quality or sth. that has that quality.
e.g. certain+ -ty certainty
Note: “-ity” is an variant form of “-ty自然景观作文”
3) Turn the following adjectives into nouns ending with “-ty” or “-ity” and then vice versa. Add more words to the list.
Adjective Noun Adjective Noun
able ability absurd absurdity
available availability capable capability
酸萝卜老鸭汤
certain certainty human humanity
cruel cruelty responsible responsibility
curious curiousity original originality
relative relativity possible possibility
probalbe probability
special specialty
雉怎么读
visible visibility
4) Complete the ntence with the words in the brackets in their noun froms.
良好的饮食习惯
(1) construction
(2) Creativity
(3) motivation
(4) difference
(5) investment
我和我的家乡影评(6) capabilities
(7) activity
(8) humanity
(9) Poverty
(10) ignorance
(11) sincerity
(12) Politeness
(13) Curiosity
(14) shortness
