Episode 1: Electronic Crime To do list: - write down new words - check the spelling - find other words that

belong to the same family - write wors in word family table - keep your words listed according to topics 1. Activy sheet: - consolidate: make firm or secure; strengthen Ex: - Practise and consolidate your learning by completing our activities. - to consolidate the friendship between two countries - convince: make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity o f something Ex: - You need more resons and evidence convince me. - Her parents cannot convince her the she has made wrong decision. - The speaker's case was well presented and well argued. I found it quit e convincing. - sophisticated: advanced, tinh vi, phuc tap, ahead in development; complex or i ntricate Ex: - As far as defense is concerned, we need to buy more sophisticated weap ons. - convey: make known; pass on, of information Ex: - No words can convey my feelings.=I cannot convey my feelings in words. - A lot of lecturers are unable adequately to convey their knowledge to their students. - Before that time written literature could convey only meaning. - strategy: an elaborate and systematic plan of action Ex: - I would like to say some thing about my company's market strategy and development strategy for next five years. - to compare is to show how two things are similaer. - to contrast is to show how two things are different. 2. Notes: Vocabulary learning tips 1. Word Forms 2. Pronunciation/Stress 3. Register 4. Word choice 5. Organisation SPELLING RULES Rule 1: ie/ei Always write ie except under two conditions: 1. When the two letters follow "c" 2. when the two letters sound like "ay" (as in "day") Examples: ie words: believe, belief, chief, field, grief, relief, yield, siege, niece, fri end ei words: ceiling, conceit, deceive, deceit, receive, receipt, neighbour, eight, weigh, weight Exceptions: conscience, counterfeit, either, financier, foreign foreit, height, leisure, neither, science seize, sheik, species, sufficient, weird

Rule 2: Doubling consonants Rule 3: Prefixes Rule 4: Suffixes -albe -ary -ing -ous -age: put out letter "e" Note: changeable courageous knowledgeable marriageable noticeable acereage mileage -less -ly -ment -ness -some: keep letter "e" Exception: argument awful ninth truly -ic ending words: picic picnicking traffic trafficking politic politicking logic logically tragic tragically Rule 5: Y to I Rule 6: Plurals Exception a roof his beliefs the chief a reef

two roofs their beliefs several chiefs many reefs

Rule 7: Homonyms Look into ep1_notes file for more imformation