...Practical Latin Vocabulary Level 1 5 units of vocabulary will be presented each 9 weeks. There will be a vocabulary quiz (10 pts.) each week followed by a 9 weeks’ test worth 50 pts. The weekly quizzes are considered major due dates. No make-ups will be given; instead, the next week’s quiz will be doubled in the case of absence. In the event that a student should miss the last 10 pt. quiz in a 9 week period, a 10 pt. grade will be extracted from the 9 weeks’ test. Format for weekly list: 1. quote / famous saying 2. abbreviation or educational term 3. legal terminology 4. medical terminology, especially prescription terms 5. motto 6. prefix 7. root 8. root 9. author 10. title of the above author’s work week 1 1. beati pacifici “Blessed are the peace makers.” 2. A.D. (Anno Domini) “in the year of our Lord” 3. ad hoc (for this purpose) an ad hoc committee is established to complete a certain task; once the task is complete, it is disbanded 4. insomnia (in) not + somnus (sleep) = sleeplessness 5. “Audemus iura nostra defendere.” “We dare defend our rights.” Motto of Alabama 6. a/ ab/ abs--from/ away 7. ferr--iron 8. hibern--winter 9. Plautus 10. Menaechmi week 2 1. carpe diem “Seize the day” (Horace) Live today, for tomorrow you may die. 2. A.M. (Ante Meridiem) “before noon” 3. argumentum ad hominem (argument against man) an argument aimed at attacking the person rather than the issue or position taken; logical fallacy ...
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...Feng Shui Diamond are trademarks of Marie Vyncke-Diamond. ISBN 13: 978-0-925480-64-4 ISBN 10: 0-925480-64-9 FIRST EDITION June 1999 Printed in the United States of America For coaching and additional support, visit our online Discussion Forum at www.LearningStrategies.com Learning Strategies Corporation Innovating ways for you to experience your potential 2000 Plymouth Road Minnetonka, Minnesota 55305-2335 USA Toll-Free 1-888-800-2688 • 1-952-767-9800 Fax 1-952-475-2373 Mail@LearningStrategies.com www.LearningStrategies.com v042507 www.LearningStrategies.com Lesson 1 (37 Mins) The Wonderful World of Words Lesson 4 (30 Mins) Learning to Learn Tracks 1-4 Introduction 5-6 First Vocabulary Lesson & Quick Quiz 7 Bennettdiction & Word Blast Lesson 2 (35 Mins) Tracks 8 9 10 11-12 13 14 15 16-17 18 English Language History and Development Word Blast Developing a Powerful Vocabulary The Distinguished...
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...Justin Paolo F. Segovia IV – Galileo My Valedictory Speech “Good bye to you Alma Matter†Rev. Fr. Ramonclaro G. Mendez, OP, School Director, Mrs. Muñoz, High School Principal, Mrs. Sandra Gratuito, English Teacher, High School Faculty and Non-teaching Staff, distinguished guests, dear parents, fellow graduates, ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon. I’ve heard a lot of valedictory addresses and usually, if not all the time they struck me as boring and bent out of formalities. All I pray is that you never get bored as I get this chance in my life to talk in the same pedestal as those boring people (hehe) A long time ago, a man once said that it is not the years in a man’s life that matters, but it is the life in his years. My fellow graduates, what does thirteen years of Aquinian education mean to you? Is it just time that has come and gone? Is it the years that have finally come to an end? Or is it more than just that? My brothers and sisters, if that is all what they mean to you, then I am sorry that you have failed to reap the fruits of your labour. These eleven years are filled with more than just months, weeks and days of experience and learning. The last four years I have spent studying in Aquinas with you, my fellow classmates, makes me truly say that I am better than what others say I could be. In fact, we all are, whether we know it or not. As a class, we may have gone through many difficult trials, events that shattered our unity. There...
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...Per annum (per year) The new business is earning a profit of ten million per annum. 10. Millennium (a period of 100 years) Such news is heard once in a millennium. 11. Resume (curriculum vitae) One of the essentials while applying for a job is to prepare a good resume. 12. Vice versa (in the opposite way) We want to translate our literature from French to English and vice versa. 13. Ditto (the same) She looks ditto like her brother and even acts like him. 14. Finesse (delicate skill in guiding relations between people) She is famous for her finesse among her friends. 15. Décor (style of decoration) I was highly impressed by the décor of his office. These examples with meaning and use in sentences gives us an idea of a few foreign words commonly used in English 1. Abinitio – From the beginning 2. Debacle – Sudden break down or failure 3. De facto – Actual/even though not planned or intended 4. En masse – As a group 5. Ex parte – One sided 6. Fait accompli- Something that has already been done and...
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...NOTES ON PERSONAL LANGUAGE LEARNING EXPERIENCE John Whelpton The reminiscences and reflections collected here cover almost six decades of language learning, from childhood in Nottingham, where I was born in 1950, through study at Oxford (1968-72), teaching English in Nepal (1972-74), working as a civil servant in London (1975-81), graduate studies and teacher training in London, Nepal, India and Manchester (1981-87) to the last twenty-two years when I have been teaching English in Hong Kong but paying regular return visits to the UK and to Nepal. I began the compilation early in 1997, when I was teaching only part-time and occupied mainly with an intensive course in Cantonese and with work for an M.A. in Applied Linguistics. At the suggestion of my course director, Professor David Nunan, I had decided that my M.A.dissertation would be a diary study of my efforts with Cantonese and I needed a summary of my previous language learning experience as part of the exercise as well as for incorporation, in condensed form, in the eventual dissertation (completed in September 1998). I included any language which I had been formally taught for any length of time and also any others which I had worked at on my own over long periods, but not those which I occasionally looked at just out of linguistic interest or to learn a few phrases for short holiday trips. Earlier drafts were circulated to friends and colleagues...
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...Historical Foundations Latin was one of the main languages that were used within literature and by the educated person. Many of the words used in different languages such as Italian, Spanish, French, have roots that are in Latin. Even the English language uses words that have Latin roots as well. This language was one that was adapted by many cultures as it was more of a universal language and easier for others to understand. The vernacular language refers to the language of the people or the native language that is used in a culture. Most languages have been adapted from the vernacular language of Latin. I wanted to take a look at Italy and their language to determine how it changed from Latin and how it spread based on different influences as well. The Italian language happens to be the closet language to Latin now (Latin Language, 2012). The Latin language came from Northern Europe and expanded along side of the growth of the Roman State. Latin was also influenced by other languages that were spoken and continued to develop over time. There were many differences when it came to the use of Latin in writing and how it was used when speaking due to the education or lack of education of individuals. Another influence of the Latin language was religion. The Greek and Latin fathers of the Church had come together to create the definition of the Christian doctrine (Sayre, 2012). The ways of communication through the Western Church were all dependant on the Latin language. The Greek...
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...Why do people call Christmas? The word “Christmas” derives from an Old English term that dates back to 1038: “Cristes Maesse.” The term literally means “the mass of Christ,” which is evidence of its Catholic roots.[1] “Mass” comes from the Latin missa, and refers to the service of Eucharist, or the Lord’s Supper. To the Protestant ear, Mass is best understood as a daily service of prayers in which Christians partake of the Lord’s supper, and the “mass of Christ” was specially devoted to the celebration of Christ’s birth. Christian celebrate Christmas because it is jesus birthday and jesus die for us. These days, one of the questions I often receive about Jesus has to do with his marital status. This question didn’t just drop out of heaven, however. It was born of the popularity of Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code. This novel advocates the thesis that Jesus was in fact married to the woman we know as Mary Magdalene, that they had a child together, and that this “truth” was covered up by the church for self-serving reasons. Many readers of The Da Vinci Code, believing the fictional history of the novel to be true, have been buzzing about the possibility of Jesus’ having been married. The people in the story is Joseph Adam Jesus god David eve ibraham lkdsjasjssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss [pic] 0 Why do people call Christmas? The word “Christmas” derives from an Old English term that dates back to 1038: “Cristes Maesse.” The term literally...
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...Форма № Н-6.01 Міністерство освіти і науки України Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича факультет іноземних мов кафедра англійської мови Курсова робота (проект) з ________________англійської мови__________________ (назва дисципліни) на тему: Термінологічна система «foods» в англійській мові Студента(ки)_II__курсу групи__205__ напрям підготовки___0305______ філологія 6.020303 Англійська мова та література Гуцул Юлія Миколаївна Керівник к.ф.н., доц.. Суродейкіна Т.В. (посада, вчене звання, науковий ступінь, прізвище та ініціали) Національна шкала ________________ Кількість балів: __________Оцінка: ECTS _____ Керівник к.ф.н., доц.. Суродейкіна Т.В. (посада, вчене звання, науковий ступінь, прізвище та ініціали) Національна шкала ________________ Кількість балів: __________Оцінка: ECTS _____ Члени комісії ________________ ___________________________ (підпис)...
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...Topics in Cultural Studies-HUMA215 Candice Kelley Waugh 1/21/14 “To be or not to be…?” If the question is whether to confine all literary works to only the Latin language, then the answer for scholars and writers alike in the 12th century was indeed not. While Latin was spoken and read by educated men throughout Europe at the time, the growing availability of education for even the common man and women made for an increase in the amount of works created. It would then follow that with proper knowledge of the written word, those with the creative inkling would begin to write, not as a scholar, but rather in the vernacular most commonly recognizable to those who would read their works. Vernacular simply means the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region (Sayre, 2013). The Latin language however is far from dead. Its roots can be found in nearly every language throughout the world. Even with the complexity of the English language, Latin bases, roots, prefixes and suffixes are very apparent. Without the shift from exclusivity to commonality the literary world would have suffered greatly. Prior to the 12th century, literature was primarily written in Latin. According to Dr. Deborah Schwartz, a professor at Calpoly University, writers of the time adapted poetry from Latin to French as part of a movement known as “translation studii” (Schwartz, 1999-2008). Not only were current works translated to language that could understand by...
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...Introduction The research question is “How has the Greek language influenced the English language?”. We chose language as our subject because we were interested in how people developed a way in which we can communicate orally as well as express and comprehend written thoughts. We think that this topic is worth of study because we will investigate and understand how several English words have been influenced by the Greek language. Numerous words in English have Greek roots. The relevance of the question is to find out how the Greek language influenced and affected the English language. Main Ancient Greek Dialects Different variants of the early Greek alphabet suited to local dialects. There were three major dialects in ancient Greece: Aeolic, Doric and Ionic (of which Attic was a branch). Each of these were from different tribes, the Aeolians lived in the islands of the Aegean, the Dorians, from the Greek coast of Peloponnese, including Crete, Sparta and other parts of West Coast Asia Minor. The Ionians settled in the West coast of Asia Minor including the Smyma. Ancient Greek Language The first Europeans to read and write with an Alphabet were the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Greek language eventually led to all modern European languages.(In text ) The Greek language has a very long and rich history stretching all the way from the thirteenth century B.C. to the present. Linear B (13th century B.C.) is the earliest form of the language. The first surviving script...
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...students| 1. Your Turn My Turn|To practice the proper spelling of words by recalling the order of the letters.|Using a dry-erase board, teacher or student will call out a Spelling word. Teacher will offer the first letter and write it down with a red marker. Student will write the next word with a blue marker. Whenever the student forgets, the teacher will supply the letter. Then they will count who supplied the most letter, and the winner is declared. |The strategy works with students with learning challenges because it helps them zoom in and focus on one specific word and its particular letters. The student will interact with the teacher in a non-threatening way where the teacher offers full support. ELL students will benefit similarly in that they can recognize a word in print by the order of its letters.| 2. Hangman|Filling out the missing letters in a word. |It helps the student discern the order of phonemes in a word as in “Your Turn My Turn”. Students can add a context cue to make it more sensical.|Students who are learning the meaning of words will benefit from understanding the actual formation of the word, from sound to symbol. This includes students with learning challenges and ELL.| 3. Frayer Model|It helps students spell the word, get a meaning, an example, a non-example, and a paraphrased meaning.|When a student has a doubt about the meaning of a word, a Frayer model will present the word in 5 different perspectives. |Although it is more of a Semantics exercise...
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...Germanic languages is based on reconstruction of a Proto-Germanic language that evolved into German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, and the Scandinavian languages. In 1786, Sir William Jones discovered that Sanskrit contained many cognates to Greek and Latin. He conjectured a Proto-Indo-European language had existed many years before. Although there is no concrete proof to support this one language had existed, it is believed that many languages spoken in Europe and Western Asia are all derived from a common language. A few languages that are not included in the Indo-European branch of languages include Basque, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian; of which the last three belong to the Finno-Ugric language family. Speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) lived in Southwest Russia around 4,000 to 5,000 BCE. They had words for animals such as bear or wolf (as evidenced in the similarity of the words for these animals in the modern I-E languages.) They also had domesticated animals, and used horse-drawn wheeled carts. They drank alcohol made from grain, and not wine, indicating they did not live in a warm climate. They belonged to a patriarchal society where the lineage was determined through males only (because of a lack of words referring to the female's side of the family.) They also made use...
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...Five Factors or Historical Events which Influenced the English Language English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages as well as most of the European languages spoken today. Latin and the modern Romance languages, Greek, the Germanic languages, Indo-Iranian languages, Slavic, Baltic, and Celtic languages are a part of the Indo-European family. English is in the Germanic group of languages; West Germanic is the ancestor of modern Dutch, German, Flemish, Frisian and English. The Gaelic-speaking Celts were one of the earliest people to migrate westward and they were natives of the British Isles long before the English (McCrum 48). “The Celtic Britons had the misfortune to inhabit an island that was highly desirable for both its agriculture and for its minerals.”(p.52) The Angles, Saxons and the Jutes were the first invaders of the British Isles and they caused the Britons to flee to the west. The Angles, Saxons and the jutes mixed their different Germanic dialects and formed what linguists now refer to as Old English or Anglo-Saxon. “Englisc’ was Old English for English, and it comes from the name of the Angles. “The basic building blocks of an English sentence- the, is, you and- are Anglo-Saxon. It is impossible to write a modern sentence without using a feast of Anglo-Saxon words.”(p.58) The Anglo-Saxons were the first speakers of English, but the English they spoke is very much different from what we speak today and it is unintelligible to modern ears. This is an...
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...Types of Word Formation Processes Compounding Compounding forms a word out of two or more root morphemes. The words are called compounds or compound words. In Linguistics, compounds can be either native or borrowed. Native English roots are typically free morphemes, so that means native compounds are made out of independent words that can occur by themselves. Examples: mailman (composed of free root mail and free root man) mail carrier dog house fireplace fireplug (a regional word for 'fire hydrant') fire hydrant dry run pick-up truck talking-to In Greek and Latin, in contrast to English, roots do not typically stand alone. So compounds are composed of bound roots. Compounds formed in English from borrowed Latin and Greek morphemes preserve this characteristic. Examples include photograph, iatrogenic, and many thousands of other classical words. Note that compounds are written in various ways in English: with a space between the elements; with a hyphen between the elements; or simply with the two roots run together with no separation. The way the word is written does not affect its status as a compound. Over time, the convention for writing compounds can change, usually in the direction from separate words (e.g. clock work), to hyphenated words (clock-work), to one word with no break (clockwork). If you read older literature you might see some compound words that are now written as one word appearing with unfamiliar spaces or hyphens between the components Another...
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...Loyalty, something we all look for in a friend, partner, family member, etc. Loyalty is the best quality you could find in someone who enters your life. Loyalty comes from Old French, Middle English and Medieval Latin. [Loyalty - the state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations.] Despite, what the thousands of dictionaries say, I believe true loyalty is someone who would stick by someone even through their wrongs, someone who you always go to for guidance or needs and someone who you never have to question their trustworthiness. Although the term loyalty has its philological origins in Old French, it’s more older and “abandoned” roots are in Latin. In the 1400s, from Old French they used loialte and leaute which defined into “loyalty, fidelity; legitimacy; honesty; good quality.” The Medieval latin word was legalitas. This original latin word is actually derived from the root “lex” or “leg” meaning law and is also the origin of the word...
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