5. There are still arguments about whether bacteria (细菌) should be _____ as animals or plants. classified
6. The story of Linda and Barbara _____ the way peer pressure and self-induced pressure are intertwined.
simplify
Text B
Text B: College Lectures:
Is Anybody Listening?
Pre-reading Task Language Points Comprehension
Pre-reading Tห้องสมุดไป่ตู้sk
Reading Comprehension Skill
exemplifies
Word Building Now complete the following sentences with the correct forms of verbs chosen from the list below. Pay attention to the words marked with an asterisk, which are new syllabus words. beautify clarify *classify *exemplify horrify identify intensify personify *purify *simplify
Word Building Now complete the following sentences with the correct forms of verbs chosen from the list below. Pay attention to the words marked with an asterisk, which are new syllabus words. beautify clarify *classify *exemplify horrify identify intensify personify *purify *simplify
21st Century College English: Book 3
Unit 4: Part C
Unit 4 Part C
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Assignment Checkup Text B Listening Practice
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Oral Practice
Assignment
Assignment Check
Examples: glory just + +
-ify -ify

glorify justify
Word Building Now complete the following sentences with the correct forms of verbs chosen from the list below. Pay attention to the words marked with an asterisk, which are new syllabus words. beautify clarify *classify *exemplify horrify identify intensify personify *purify *simplify
Language Points
2 Toward the middle of the semester, Fowkes fell ill and missed a class. When he returned, to Fowkes’s astonishment, the professor began to deliver not the next lecture in the sequence but the one after. Had he, in fact, lectured to an empty hall in the absence of his solitary student? Fowkes thought it perfectly possible.
Language Points
Text B
College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening?
David Daniels
Language Points
College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening?
David Daniels
1 A former teacher of mine, Robert A. Fowkes of New York University, likes to tell the story of a class he took in Old English while studying in Germany during the 1930s. On the first day the professor strode up to the blackboard, looked through his notes, coughed, and began, “Guten Tag, Meine Damen und Herren”(“Good day, ladies and gentlemen”). Fowkes glanced around uneasily. He was the only student in the course.
7. Merely putting up posters of movie stars in the dormitory and cafeteria is not what the campaign to _____ our campus is about. beautify
8. The government is planning to _____ the tax laws so that they‟re easier for people to understand.
Assignment Check Word Building
Word Building
《读写教程 III》: Ex. VI, p. 92
Word Building
Suffix
-ify to be added to: adjectives / nouns / word roots
to form verbs, meaning: 1. to make sth. full of [noun] or similar to [noun] 2. to use sth. as [noun], etc. 3. to make sth. [adj]
3. As the pressures on students continue to _____, more and more of them are suffering from problems with their health. intensify 4. The bystanders were _____ as they watched the car spin out of control and crash into a school bus. horrified
Predicting an Author‟s Ideas
Making predictions anticipating the writer‟s next point is an important skill in active reading. Although we may not be able to predict every detail and although a writer may surprise us with unexpected ideas we can often anticipate the general direction the author is going. Making predictions while you read keeps your mind alert and involved with the text; it‟s a way to double-check your comprehension of what you‟ve read so far; and it can be a great aid to understanding what comes next.
Word Building Now complete the following sentences with the correct forms of verbs chosen from the list below. Pay attention to the words marked with an asterisk, which are new syllabus words. beautify clarify *classify *exemplify horrify identify intensify personify *purify *simplify
teaching methods __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
Language Points
3 Today, American colleges and universities (originally modeled on German ones) are under strong attack. Teachers, it is charged, are not doing a good job of teaching, and students are not doing a good job of learning. American businesses and industries suffer from uncreative executives educated not to think for themselves but to recite obsolete ideas that the rest of the world has long discarded. College graduates lack both basic skills and general culture. Studies are conducted and reports are issued on the status of higher education, but any changes that result either are largely cosmetic or make a bad situation worse.