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Oct 25, 2004
ST Home Learning Centre
The lesson plan
IT IS aimed at getting upper secondary and junior college students up to speed in current affairs and English.
Testing, testing...
Surprise! You're going to take a test on the vocabulary and important concepts that have been featured in these lessons over the past year. If you have been paying attention, you should be able to do pretty well. See how you fare. And don't use a dictionary; it wouldn't be fair.
The lesson plan is drawn up by Philip Geer, the author of numerous texts on English, including Simon's Saga for the SAT I Verbal and the forthcoming Picture These SAT Words! (both published by Barrons Educational Series).
He is also the academic director of Mentaurs ( www.mentaurs.com ), an education consultancy that designs materials and courses to improve students' English skills for the Scholastic Assessment Test and other tests. He can be reached at: director@mentaurs.com">director@mentaurs.com
Let's start with nouns
Fill in the sentences below with the following words:
bombast, angst, caricature, niche, behest, exegesis, licence, truculent, cadence, insurgence
1. The employee completed the job at his boss' ________.
2. It is important for a person to find his own _______ in society.
3. The ________ was put down by the army.
4. Avoid ________ in your writing unless you want to appear pompous.
5. The poem has a pleasant ________.
6. The university has given the distinguished professor _______ to pursue any type of research that she wishes to pursue.
7. The sociologist believes that ________ increases in societies in which values are uncertain.
8. The bible scholar wrote a/an _________ of the Gospel of Luke.
9. The child became ________ after his mother took away his favourite toy.
10. The cartoonist drew a/an ________ of the president.
If the sentence makes sense, put T (true); if it doesn't, put F(false):
11. Iconography is a set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylised work of art. ___
12. Those that come before us are our progeny. ___
13. Playwrights sometimes use a soliloquy to convey something about a character's inner life. ___
14. Hard rock sounds like a cacophony to many people. ___
15. Visual acuity usually increases with age. ___
16. Pragmatism can be described as a fancy word for common sense. ___
17. The repartee was so heavy that it couldn't float in the ocean. ___
18. Scientists are concerned about the rapid diminution in the supply of fresh water in the world. ___
19. Social realist novelists describe the milieu of a society. ___
20. The two scholars reached an agreement easily because they were operating within very different paradigms. ___
Match the following people to their descriptions:
actuarist, iconoclast, charlatan, bohemian, vicegerent, ideologue, epidemiologist, purveyor, polymath, wastrel.
21. studies the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations _________
22. pretender to knowledge ________
23. person of great or varied learning ________
24. appointed to act as an administrative deputy _________
25. distributor __________
26. attacks cherished traditions _________
27. computes insurance risks and premiums ________
28. advocates a given ideology _________
29. good-for-nothing person __________
30. has informal and unconventional social habits ________
AND NOW FOR SOME MATCHING ACTION...
| Match each of the verbs below to its definition: |
| 31. extrapolate __ |
a. cause to multiply |
| 32. oscillate __ |
b. ponder |
| 33. abdicate __ |
c. reject with disdain |
| 34. propagate __ |
d. repeat |
| 35. reiterate __ |
e. estimate by projecting known information |
| 36. espouse __ |
f. give one's support to |
| 37. pander __ |
g. impose on someone else by coercion |
| 38. muse __ |
h. swing back and forth between two things |
| 39. spurn __ |
i. give up |
| 40. foist __ |
j. cater to a person's lower desires |
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| Match each adjective to the noun it is most appropriately and commonly used to describe: |
| 41. epochal __ |
a. style |
| 42. affable __ |
b. liar |
| 43. volatile __ |
c. Japan |
| 44. immaterial __ |
d. pianist |
| 45. pathological __ |
e. colleague |
| 46. disaffected __ |
f. electorate |
| 47. pellucid __ |
g. understanding |
| 48. sophisticated __ |
h. event |
| 49. celebrated __ |
i. evidence |
| 50. imperial __ |
j. temper |
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| Let's do it again... |
| 51. hackneyed __ |
a. sentiment |
| 52. misconceived __ |
b. custom |
| 53. prudent __ |
c. leader |
| 54. turbulent __ |
d. crime |
| 55. rampant __ |
e. influence |
| 56. quaint __ |
f. debt |
| 57. protectionist __ |
g. phrases |
| 58. indigenous __ |
h. people |
| 59. insidious __ |
i. era |
| 60. colossal __ |
j. plan |
Fill in the sentences below with the following adverbs:
enticingly, ruefully, disconcertedly, egregiously, lavishly, ostensibly, avidly, inexorably, inevitably, indefinitely.
61. The iceberg was ________ advancing.
62. _________ we will all die.
63. The big shot spent ________ on entertainment for his guests.
64. The soccer fan followed his favourite team _________.
65. When the student was about to begin the mathematics exam, she realised, _______ , that she had forgotten her calculator.
66. The purpose of the test was _______ to measure the students' improvement, but in reality, the teacher was using it to punish her students.
67. The test was postponed ________ .
68. The candy was waved _______ in front of the child.
69. The old man smiled ______ as he reminisced about the opportunity he had lost as a young man.
70. The student behaved so _______ that the principal suspended him from school.
IMPORTANT CONCEPTS
Choose the correct concept for each:
Nasa, Marshall Plan, Republican, Geneva Conventions, Marxism, intifada, Bill of Rights, Golden Rule, lobby group, moksha.
71. Attainable through the elimination of passions and through knowledge of reality and, finally, union with God __________
72. Palestinian uprising during the late 1980s and early 1990s against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 1967 __________
73. Agency of the US government that directs programmes in astronautics research and space exploration _________
74. Desires a classless society, in which all means of production are commonly owned. ______
75. Generally supports business and is wary of the expansion of the role of government ________
76. Biblical teaching that one should behave towards others as one would have others behave towards oneself ________
77. International rules that govern the treatment of prisoners, the wounded and civilians during war ________
78. Programme by which the US donated large sums of money to aid the recovery of countries in Europe devastated after World War II ________
79. Protects the freedoms of religion, speech and the press in the US _________
80. Members of this share certain goals and work to bring about the passage, modification or defeat of laws that affect these goals ________
Choose the answer that best describes...
81. meritocracy
(A) Government controlled by an elite that earns its position by showing great merit
(B) System in which each person's worth is judged impartially by a central authority
(C) System in which people's success is a result of their talent and effort
82. protectionism
(A) Shields domestic producers from competition by limiting the importation of foreign goods and services
(B) Protects consumers by giving them the right to sue stores that sell defective merchandise
(C) Protecting overseas markets by signing bilateral agreements with other governments
83. Clash of Civilisations
(A) 1985 film about a future clash of East and West
(B) Samuel P. Huntington's 1996 book that predicted the clash of 'Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance and Chinese assertiveness'
(C) Arnold Toynbee's phrase describing how civilisations inevitably reach a point of conflict called the 'Omega Point'
84. Ottoman Empire
(A) The Holy Roman Empire under Otto the Terrible
(B) Byzantine Empire before Theodosis
(C) Empire developed by the Turks between the 14th and the
20th centuries. In the 1920s it was succeeded by the present-day Turkey
85. Eurocentrism
(A) The European Central Board
(B) The Central European Monetary Authority
(C) A world view centered on Europe
WHO IN THE WORLD
Write the name of each of the following people:
86. American thinker who wrote The End Of History __________
87. Eminent American anthropologist known for the book Coming Of Age In Samoa ________
88. Iraqi political leader who was Iraq's president from 1979 to 2004 ________
89. Soviet cosmonaut who was the first person to orbit the Earth in 1961 ________
90. The Malaysian Prime Minister from 1981 until 2003 _________
Match each of the famous people with his/her description:
Aldous Huxley Chiang Kai-shek Richard Nixon Noam Chomsky Donald Rumsfeld H.G. Wells Anwar Ibrahim Winston Churchill John Kerry Osama bin Laden
91. British political leader who became prime minister shortly after World War II began __________
92. American linguist who revolutionised the study of language; also known for his controversial books on current affairs __________
93. US Senator from Massachusetts __________
94. He took refuge in Taiwan and established Nationalist rule after Chinese communists gained control of mainland China in 1949 _________
95. Former Malaysian finance minister and deputy prime minister _________
96. British novelist who wrote Brave New World and Island ________
97. Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation _________
98. English author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose books were often concerned with social and political reform _________
99. Republican US president who reopened relations between mainland China and the United States in 1972 ________
100. The current US Secretary of Defence __________
ANSWERS
1. behest
2. niche
3. insurgence
4. bombast
5. cadence
6. licence
7. angst
8. exegesis
9. truculent
10. caricature
11. T
12. F
13. T
14. T
15. F
16. T
17. F
18. T
19. T
20. F
21. epidemiologist
22. charlatan
23. polymath
24. vicegerent
25. purveyor
26. iconoclast
27. actuarist
28. ideologue
29. wastrel
30. bohemian
31. e
32. h
33. i
34. a
35. d
36. f
37. j
38. b
39. c
40. g
41. h
42. e
43. j
44. i
45. b
46. f
47. a
48. g
49. d
50. c
51. g
52. j
53. c
54. i
55. d
56. b
57. a
58. h
59. e
60. f
61. inexorably
62. inevitably
63. lavishly
64. avidly
65. disconcertedly
66. ostensibly
67. indefinitely
68. enticingly
69. ruefully
70. egregiously
71. moksha
72. intifada
73. Nasa
74. Marxism
75. Republican
76. Golden Rule
77. Geneva Conventions
78. Marshall Plan
79. Bill of Rights
80. lobby group
81. C
82. A
83. B
84. C
85. C
86. Francis Fukuyama
87. Margaret Mead
88. Saddam Hussein
89. Yuri Gagarin
90. Dr Mahathir Mohamad
91. Winston Churchill
92. Noam Chomsky
93. John Kerry
94. Chiang Kai-shek
95. Anwar Ibrahim
96. Aldous Huxley
97. Osama bin Laden
98. H.G. Wells
99. Richard Nixon
100. Donald Rumsfeld
'HOW DID I DO?'
Give yourself one mark for each correct answer.
What your score means
Below 50: Fail (please go back and review the lessons)
51 to 60: E
61 to 70: D
71 to 80: C
81 to 90: B
91 to 100: A
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