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Lesson5 (Word Study). view. Unit 1. Actor. ( act or) ( n ) a person who acts in a play. as if( as if) (conj) 1. As it would be if ….. He looked as if he were ill. 2. as a person would do if. . . The man spoke as if he knew me. bring up.
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Lesson5 (Word Study) view Unit 1
Actor • (act or) (n) a person who acts in a play. as if( as if) (conj) 1. As it would be if ….. He looked as if he were ill. • 2. as a person would do if. . . The man spoke as if he knew me.
bring up (bring up) (v- irreg. brought up-) take care of a child in the family until he or she becomes an adult. Orphans are often brought up in special homes.
career (ca reer) (n) a person’s working life. He had a successful career as a teacher.
character (char acter ) (n) 1. what makes one person different from another. To be the leader of a country, a person must have a strong character. 2. a person in a book, a play or a story. This play has seven characters in it.
gentleman • (gen tleman) (n) 1. a man who acts well towards others. He is always polite. He is a rea gentleman. • 2. (in the nineteenth century) some who had enough money so that he did not need work.
gentleman • gentlemen (plural) 1. Used by speakers when they begin to speak to a group of men. Gentlemen, I would like to talk to you today about..................
gentleman • 2. On a sign on a door in a public place. gentlemen means a toilet for men. A toilet for women has the word ladies on the door.
insurance • (in sur ance) (n) an agreement to pay money in case of illness, death or accident. In many countries, you must have car - insurance before you can drive on the road.
kind • (adj) helpful; interested in the happiness of others. You should be kind to animals. A kind gentleman helped me when my car stopped.
kindness • kindness(kind ness) (n) The noun is formed by adding -ness to the adjective. If an adjective ends in -y, the y changes to i: happy - happiness lazy-laziness. *Can you think of other examples like this?
lonely • lonely (lone ly) (adj) unhappy when alone or without friends. The little boy was lonely. He had nobody to play with. *Read the note under kindness above and make a noun from lonely.
part owner • part owner(part ow ner)(n) a person shares the ownership of something. I am part owner of a boat. I use it one weekend and my partner uses it the next.
play • play(n) 1. an activity for enjoyment only. The children are at play while their father is at work. 2. a piece of writing for the theatre. There is a new play on TV tonight. *Look up the words actor, stage and theatre on the page and see the use of word play.
poem • poem (poe m) (n) a piece of writing that often has lines and repeated sounds. It may describe what people think, feel or experience. • poet(po et) (n) a person who writes poems.
poetry • poetry (po etry) (n) poems in general. *Read this short peom. Are the sounds regular? What sounds are repeated? Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
stage • stage(n) the part of a theatre on which actors stand when they are acting in a play.. theatre • theatre(thea tre) (n) the building in which plays are performed.
whom • whom(pronoun) the object form of who, The gentleman whom we discussed has written to us. (You may read the word whom but do not say or write it yourselves.)
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