First Year BA Autumn Semester Year 2013/14

AN1100OMA Vocabulary Buildin (seminar, 2 hrs, graded)

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-ourse .escri/tion
This course is designed to help students consolidate, extend and activate their advanced English
vocabulary with special attention to a0 everyday topics such as traffic and transport,
travelling, meals, shopping, fashion, advertising, work, town life and country life, the house
and the flat, the weather, hobbies, customs, education, crime and investigation of crime b0
abstract topics important in Academic English, such as the expression of space and time
relations, cause and reason, purpose, thought and communication, feelings, attitudes,
description, and argumentation. The course will also offer varied and extensive practice in
word formation (affixation, compounding, conversion, etc.), special areas of difficulty, such as
lexical and grammatical collocations, idioms (colours, parts of the body, animals, time
phrases, business, etc.), phrasal verbs, and prepositional phrases. There will be regular
discussion of the stories behind the meanings of twentieth century phrases and idioms.
Syllabus
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A) Traffic and Transport
,) The Expression of &pace #elations
-) .repositional .hrases %.
/) -ollocations %.
E) The vocabulary of 0%1E and /EAT2
1) ord 1ormation Exercises %.
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A) Travelling
,) The Expression of Time #elations
-) .repositional .hrases %%.
/) -ollocations %%.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able %.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises %%.
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A) 5eals
,) The Expression of -ause and #eason
-) .repositional .hrases %%%.
/) -ollocations %%%.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able %%.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises %%%.
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A) &hopping and 1ashion
,) The expression of .urpose
-) .repositional .hrases %8.
/) -ollocations %8.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able %%%.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises %8.
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A) Advertising
,) The Expression of Thought and -ommunication
-) .hrasal 8erbs with .;T
/) -ollocations 8.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able %8.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises 8.
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A) or!
,) The Expression of 1eelings and Attitudes
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-) .hrasal 8erbs with TA)E
/) -ollocations 8%.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able 8.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises 8%.
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A) Town 0ife and -ountry 0ife
,) The 8ocabulary of /escription
-) .hrasal 8erbs with /'
/) -ollocations 8%%.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able 8%.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises 8%%.
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A) The 2ouse and the 1lat
,) The 8ocabulary of Argumentation
-) .hrasal 8erbs with 5A)E
/) -ollocations 8%%%.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able 8%%.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises 8%%%.
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A) -rime and %nvestigation of -rime
,) %dioms= .arts of the ,ody
-) .hrasal 8erbs with $ET
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E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able 8%%%.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises %>.
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A) 2obbies
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-) .hrasal 8erbs with $'
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E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able %>.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises >.
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A) -ustoms
,) %dioms= 5iscellaneous %.
-) .hrasal 8erbs with $%8E
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E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able >.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises >%.
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A) Education
,) %dioms= 5iscellaneous %%.
-) .hrasal 8erbs with -'5E
/) -ollocations >%%.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able >%.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises >%%.
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A) %dioms and 5etaphors
,) .hrasal 8erbs (5ixed)
-) ,usiness %dioms
/) -ollocations >%%%.
E) Everyman4s 5odern .hrase and 1able >%%.
1) ord 1ormation Exercises >%%%.
$) #evision and $rading
5ost of the ord?formation exercises will be ta!en from B#.# 1ra2er4s Advanced
English Practice, whereas 3# Seidl and 4# McMordie4s English Idioms will be tapped for
most tas!s concerning %dioms. .hrasal 8erb exercises will be based on he !xford Advanced
"earner#s $ictionary.
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%%I &ombinatory $ictionary of English and the !xford &ollocations $ictionary for 'tudents
of English
&tudents should borrow a copy of 1yles Brandret&5s (*++") Everyman(s )odern
Phrase and *able (@.5./ent A &ons 0td, 0ondon) from the %nstitute 0ibrary. (There are about
*9 copies available and students are supposed to share copies when necessary.) &tudentsB wor!
will be assessed by regular written test papers (3 to :) and the grades will be based on the
results of these test papers as well as studentsB oral performance in class.

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