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    Etymology

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    1. Con is a prefix that contains two definitions. The most widely used Con can mean with as connecting together or with. Con can also mean against coming from the Latin word contra. Contradiction- adjective Contradiction- means assertion of the contrary or opposite; denial. Etymology- Con (against from Latin word contra) + diction (to speak) Control- verb Control means to exercise restraint or direction over an object. Also means to dominate and or command objects. Etymology- Con (against) + roll (move

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    First Grade Unit Plan

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    UNIT PLAN First Grade Literacy Skills: The Mitten December 12‚ 2012 EDCC 351 Dr. Keyes I choose to do my unit plan on a literacy unit using the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. I choose this topic because it was a way to encourage literacy while teaching other concepts through the story. I also felt that this way of teaching will help students to see that learning is everywhere and encourage them to learn through everyday experiences. This unit plan is designed for students in grade

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    Poem analysis

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    unconditional love towards her through strong diction which creates a passionate form of image. In the poem‚ such words as “lying” (1)‚ “asleep” (1) and “night” (1) implies the speaker is in his bedroom‚ creating a lonely‚ quite atmosphere. In this immersive atmosphere‚ the writer strikes a chord with the readers and graphs the sorrow and yearning incisively and vividly. Moreover‚ the word “saw” (2)‚ being past tense‚ reveals that his lover who used to lay by his side is not with him‚ which is why he

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    Spelling Bee Tips

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    each other to practice spelling words aloud. Host Practice Spelling Bees o If you are preparing with a group of students‚ have practice spelling bees to add some fun to your studying and give you experience in the real spelling bee format. Take turns moderating‚ or ask a parent‚ teacher‚ older sibling or friend to be the moderator. Study Frequently Misspelled Words o The website Spell it! has a list of frequently misspelled words‚ like appearance‚ embarrass‚ foreign

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    Vol. 8. No. 4 A-2 March 2005 Return to Table of Contents Return to Main Page Barriers to Acquiring Listening Strategies for EFL Learners and Their Pedagogical Implications Yiching Chen Department of Applied Foreign Languages Takming College in Taiwan Abstract As theorized in Anderson ’s (1983‚ 1995) associative stage of skill acquisition‚ errors or obstacles become an important index of the learning process. However‚ learning obstacles have not been widely researched in the

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    Zeugma and Pun

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    26 Zeugma and Pun Zeugma is the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two neighboring words in the context‚ the semantic relations being‚ on the one hand‚ literal‚ and‚ on the other‚ transferred. "Dora‚ plunging at once into privileged intimacy and into the middle of the room". (B. Shaw) ’To plunge’ (into the middle of a room) materializes the meaning ’to rush into’ or ’enter impetuously’. Here it is used in its concrete‚ primary‚ literal meaning; in ’to plunge

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    Medical Terminology

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    Terminology 1 Medical Terminology words/terms which make up the language of medicine Majority of terms are based in Latin or Greek Serves as a Universal Language Medical terms are broken down into FOUR word parts: 1. Stem/Root = gives the essential meaning of the term 2. Prefix = added to the beginning of the term 3. Suffix = placed after a word 4. Linking or Combining Vowels = connects roots to suffixes or roots to other words Word Building Involves two steps: 1. Knowing

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    and Perfetti gave their participants different tasks to perform on each word list like finding rhymes for a word and finding synonyms for a word. The rhyming task involved acoustic coding and the synonym task involved semantic coding. The participants were not told that they would be asked to try recalling the words on the word list however; they surprisingly did remember some of the words. The participants remembered more words from the synonym task rather than the rhyming task due to the synonym

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     Besides English is considered to be one of the most popular  language in the world. Pyles and Algeo (1970) noted that :  “When we first think about the language‚ we think about words. It is words that we  arrange together to mark sentence‚ conversations and discourse of all kind ’’.       In fact‚ vocabulary is the element that links the four skills of speaking‚ listening‚  reading and writing. The more words you know‚ the more you will be able to  understand what you hear and read.  Studying English‚ students have chance to know many interesting things around the 

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    Wheelbarrow‚ one of the masterpieces of William Carlos Williams. This paper analyses the linguistic features of this poem‚ including phonological‚ lexical‚ syntactic and semantic features‚ and we can have a more clear idea of this poem. II.Key words: linguistic features‚Semantic feautres‚ The Red Wheelbarrow‚White Chickens III.Introduction In the "The Red Wheelbarrow" we see a harmonious relationship between an manmade object (reflective of the human world) and nature. The red wheelbarrow

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