TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA

Exercises

Name: ALISHKA ITURRIAGA

Group: 1II114
3.1 Use a dictionary to find/check the answers to these
questions.
1. What does dreadful mean?
R= the meaning of dreadful is inspiring dread, bad, awful,
frightful, shocking; terrible.
2. How do you pronounce lose?
R= lt is pronounce as lu:z . Is it the same as choose.
3. What part of the speech is choose?
R= Choose is a verb.
4. What part of the speech is homesick?
R = Homesick is an adjective.
5. Homework and chaos are both nouns, but what type of
noun are they?
R= Homework and chaos are both nouns and are common,
abstract and uncountable.
6. What adjectives are often used before chaos? (Give two
examples).
R= Bad, horrible are the adjectives used before chaos.
7. What two prepositions are often used after choose?

R= to, between, from are the preposition used after choose.

8. Write down a sentence example of choose used with a
preposition.
R= between red and white, I choose red because it is best
combination.
3.2 When you look up a word, you can also use your
dictionary to increase your vocabulary by learning
related words and phrases. Find out if your dictionary
helps you to answer these questions, also about words
from the opposite page.
1. Choose is a verb, but what is the noun with the same
meaning?
R= Choice is the noun with the same meaning.
2. Advice is a noun, but what is the verb with the same
meaning?
R= The verb with the same meaning of advice is advise.
3. Advice is also uncountable, but you can make it countable
using another word. Can you complete the sentences:
R= He gave me a very useful piece of advice
4. What adjective is formed from chaos?
R=The adjective formed from chaos is chaotic.
5. What the opposite of dirty?
R= The opposite of dirty is clean.
6. What is the difference between homework and housework?
R= The difference between homework and house work is:

-Homework refers to task assigned to students by teachers to

be completed mostly outside of class, and derives its name
from the fact that most students do to majority of such work
at home.
-Housework refers to domestic household chores suck as
cleaning and cooking.
7. What is the opposite of lose a game?
R=The opposite of lose a game is win a game.
8. What is the opposite of lose weight?
R= The opposite of lose weight is gain weight.
9. Law often appears in the phrase law and What is the
missing word?
R=The missing word is order.
10. If you want to sit at a table in a cafe and you see that one
person is sitting there already, but another scat is empty,
what can you say to the person sitting down?
R= I say to the person: the seat is occupied? Can I sit here?
3.3 In the word island, the letter s is silent (= not
pronounced).
R=

Knife: the letter k is silent

Bomb: the second b is silent
Psychology: silent letter p,s, y
Receipt: silent letter p
Castle: silent letter t, e
Doubt: silent letter b
Wrist: silent letter w
Calm: silent letter l

Students often ask if the letter t is pronounced in often.

Some people pronounce it, others dont. What does your
dictionary say?
R= He says the letter t is not pronounced frequently

3.4 Look at the entry for suit on the right, the match
the definitions with the sentences on the left.

1. Im afraid black doesnt suit me my hair is the wrong

color.
2. A: Im not going, so dont ask me again.
B: OK. Suit yourself.
3. If we have the meeting this afternoon, would 2.30 suit you.