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How to improve your vocabulary – by Tony Randall
“I love words. I thank you for
hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think
is important. As I say, they’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion.
Words are all we have really” ( George Carlin, comedian)
English is the richest language with the vocabulary on earth. Over 1,000,000
words!
Yet, the average adult has a
vocabulary of only 30,000 to 60,000 words. Imagine what we’re missing!
Here are five pointers that help me
learn – and remember – whole families of words at a time!
1.
Try to guess the meaning of the word
from the way it’s used
You can often get at least part of a
world’s meaning just from how it’s used in a sentence. That’s why it’s so
important to read as much as you can – different kinds of things: magazines,
books, newspapers you don’t normally read. The more you expose yourself to new
words, the more words you’ll pick up just by seeing how they’re used.
For instance, say you run across the
word “manacle”: “The manacles had bees
on John’s wrists for 30 years. Only one
person had the key – his wife.”
You have a good idea of what
“manacles” are just from the context of the sentence.
But let’s find out exactly what the
word means and where it comes from. The only way to do this, and to build an
extensive vocabulary fast is go to the dictionary.
- Look it up
Here’s the definition for “manacle” in The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: man-a-cle – Ussualy
plural. 1. A device for confining the hands, usually consisting of two metal
rings that are fastened about the wrists and joined by a metal chain; handcuff.
2.anything that confines or restrains(…).
The first definition fits here: a
device for confining the hands, usually of two metal rings that are fastened
about the wrists and joined by metal chain; a handcuff.
Well, that’s what you thought it
mean. But what’s the idea behind the word? What are its roots? To really
understand a word you need to know. Here’s where the detective work – and the
fun – begins.
3 . Dig the meaning out by the
roots.
The root is the basic part of the
word –its heritage, its origin. ( Most of our roots come from Latin and Greek.)
Take manual – something (as a
manager). When you emancipate someone, you’re taking him “from the hands of”
someone else.
Imagine! A whole new word of words
opens up – just from one simple root!
So what do you do to improve your
vocabulary?
1)
Try
to guess the meaning of the word from
the way it’s used.
2)
Look
it up
3)
Dig
the meaning out by the roots.
Now, do you see why I love words so
much?
Aristophanes said “By words, the
mind is excited and the spirit elated”. It’s as true today as it was when he
said it in Athens – 2,400 years ago!
I hope you’re now like me – hooked
on words forever.
Tony Randal
“Power of the printed word”
1993 International
Paper company
UNDERSTANDING
1- Quantas
palavras há na lingual inglesa? No mínimo:
a) 10
mil b)200 mil c)500 mil d)1 milhão
2- O
vocabulário de um falante adulto nativo consiste de quantas palavras?
a) 2
a 3 mil b)30
a 60 mil c)300 a 600
mil
d)7.500 e)10.000
3- De
onde foi retirado o texto? ____________________________________
4- Qual o ano de publicação do artigo?
______________________________
5- Quem
é o autor do artigo? ______________________________________
6- Qual
a relação da figura do detetive com o texto?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7- Qual
o tema do artigo?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8- Retire
do texto:
a) Verbos
regulares - ____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
b) Verbos
irregulares - ___________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
c) Cognatos
- __________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
d) Frases
no presente simples - ____________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
e) Frases
no passado simples - _____________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
f) Segundo
o texto por que é importante a leitura de diferentes tipos de textos?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
g) De
onde vem a maior parte dos radicais da língua inglesa?
_____________________________________________________________
h) Quais
as citações que o autor faz no texto?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9-
Qual
seria a melhor tradução para manacles em “The manacles had been on John’s
wrists for 30 years.”?__________________________________
10- A
palavra wrists se refere a _____________________________________
11- Encontre
o correspondente em inglês no texto:
a) Por
exemplo – ________________________________________________
b) Primeira
definição - ____________________________________________
c) Ao
menos - __________________________________________________
d) Raiz
- _______________________________________________________
e) Quanto
mais - ________________________________________________
f) Procurar
por algo -_____________________________________________
g) Herança
- ____________________________________________________
12 – O texto diz que podemos
conseguir entender o sentido de algumas palavras apenas pelo contexto em que
são utilizadas.
( ) Verdadeiro ( )
Falso
13- O autor do texto - Tony Randal - diz não gostar das palavras.
( ) Verdadeiro ( )
Falso
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