Unit 1 – English…….
at home and abroad
TSIM Kam Wan
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Part 1 -Vocabulary - loan word
Definition
• A loan word refers to a term that was
borrowed from another language. Loan words
are generally pronounced in accordance with
the phonological structure of the language
being developed (target language), and
symbolized in accordance with the
orthography of the target language.
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Vocabulary - Loan Words
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Word
Sushi
Pasta
Pizza
salon
samba
alpha
sauna
karate
boutique
glasnost
samovar
piano
route
Task 1 -Vocabulary –
Guess (Country)
Target
country
Japanese
Italian
Italian
word
Target
country
mascara
drama
panorama
fez
delicatessen
kindergarten
delta
concerto
Kebab
junta
siesta
bungalow
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Word
Sushi
Pasta
Pizza
salon
samba
alpha
sauna
karate
boutique
glasnost
samovar
piano
route
Task 1-Vocabulary –
Guess (Country)
Target
country
Japanese
Italian
Italian
French
Brazilian
Portuguese
Greek
Finnish
Japanese
French
Russian
Russian
Italian
French
word
mascara
drama
panorama
fez
delicatessen
Target
country
French
Greek
Greek
Turkish
German
kindergarten
delta
concerto
Kebab
junta
siesta
bungalow
German
Greek
Italian
Turkish
Spanish
Spanish
Hindi
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Task 2 – Categorize
• Put the words into an appropriate category below. It is
possible that a word belongs to more than one category.
Sushi
Pasta
Pizza
salon
samba
Alpha
sauna
karate
boutique
glasnost
Samovar
piano
Route
mascara
drama
Panorama
fez
delicatessen kindergarten delta
concerto
Kebab
junta
siesta
bungalow
Shops
Food
Places
Sport and
Recreation
Others
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Task 2 – Categorize
• Put the words into an appropriate category below. It is
possible that a word belongs to more than one category.
Sushi
Pasta
Pizza
salon
samba
Alpha
sauna
karate
boutique
glasnost
Samovar
piano
Route
mascara
drama
Panorama
fez
delicatessen kindergarten delta
concerto
Kebab
junta
siesta
bungalow
Food
Shops/Places/Building
Sport and
Recreation
Others
Sushi
Pasta
Pizza
kebab
Salon
Boutique
Glasnost
Panorama
Fez
Delicatessen
Kindergarten
Delta
Junta
bungalow
Samba
Sauna
Karate
drama
Alpha
Samovar
Piano
Route
Mascara
Concerto
siesta
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Task 3 – Story Making
• Work in small groups. Each person chooses three words
from the table. Go around the group inventing a story,
each person adding a new sentence to make the story
longer. Be prepared to tell your story to another group.
• Here is an example of how you might start.
John was sitting in the garden of his beautiful
bungalow. He was feeling sleepy because he had eaten
a pizza and it was very sunny. So he decided to take a
short siesta. Suddenly…
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Sushi, Pasta
Sushi (noun)
Etymology: Japanese
cold rice dressed with vinegar,
formed into any of various shapes,
and garnished especially with bits
of raw fish or shellfish
Pasta (noun)
Etymology: Italian, from Late
Latin
1 : paste in processed form (as
spaghetti) or in the form of fresh
dough (as ravioli)
2 : a dish of cooked pasta
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Pizza, Salon
Pizza (noun)
Etymology: Italian, perhaps of
Germanic origin
an open pie made typically of
flattened bread dough spread with a
savory mixture usually including
tomatoes and cheese and often other
toppings and baked -- called also
pizza pie
Salon (noun)
Etymology: French
1 : a fashionable assemblage of notables (as
literary figures, artists, or statesmen) held by
custom at the home of a prominent person
2 : a stylish business establishment or shop <a
beauty salon>
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Samba, Alpha
Samba (noun)
Etymology: Portuguese
: a Brazilian dance of African origin
with a basic pattern of step-close-stepclose and characterized by a dip and
spring upward at each beat of the
music; also : the music for this dance
Alpha noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin,
from Greek, of Semitic origin; akin to
Hebrew Aleph aleph
1 : the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet
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Sauna, Karate
Sauna (noun)
Etymology: Finnish
1 : a Finnish steam bath in which the steam
is provided by water thrown on hot stones;
also : a bathhouse or room used for such a
bath
2 : a dry heat bath; also : a room or cabinet
used for such a bath
karate: (noun)
Etymology: Japanese, from kara empty + te
hand
: a Japanese art of self-defense employing
hand strikes and kicks to disable or subdue
an opponent
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Boutique, Mascara
Boutique (noun)
Etymology: French,
a small fashionable specialty shop
or business b : a small shop within
a large department store.
Mascara (noun)
Etymology: probably from Italian
maschera mask, (Spanish)
a cosmetic especially for coloring
the eyelashes
Spanish
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Drama, Panorama
Drama (noun)
Etymology: Late Latin dramat-,
drama, from Greek,
a composition in verse or prose
intended to portray life or character
or to tell a story usually involving
conflicts and emotions through action
and dialogue and typically designed
for theatrical performance
Panorama (noun)
Etymology: pan- + Greek horama
sight,
: a picture exhibited a part at a
time by being unrolled before the
spectator
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Fez, Delicatessen
Fez (noun)
Etymology: French, from Fez, Morocco
(Turkish)
: a brimless cone-shaped flat-crowned
hat that usually has a tassel, is usually
made of red felt, and is worn especially
by men in eastern Mediterranean
countries
Delicatessen (noun)
Etymology: German
1 : ready-to-eat food products (as
cooked meats and prepared salads)
2 singular, plural delicatessens
[delicatessen (store)] : a store where
delicatessen are sold
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Kindergarten, Delta
Kindergarten (noun)
Etymology: German
a school or class for children usually
from four to six years old
Delta (noun)
Etymology: Middle English deltha,
from Greek delta, of Semitic origin;
akin to Hebrew dAleth daleth
the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
Greek
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Concerto, Kebab
Concerto (noun)
Etymology: Italian, from concerto
concert
a piece for one or more soloists and
orchestra with three contrasting
movements
Kebab (noun)
Turkish
a dish consisting of small pieces of
meat and vegetables that have been
put on a long thin stick or metal
rod and cooked together
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Glasnost, Junta
Glasnost (noun)
Etymology: Russian
a Soviet policy permitting open
discussion of political and social
issues and freer dissemination of
news and information
Junta (Noun)
Etymology: Spanish,
1 : a council or committee for
political or governmental
purposes; especially : a group of
persons controlling a government
especially after a revolutionary
seizure of power
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Samovar, Siesta
Samovar (noun)
Etymology: Russian, from samoself + varit' to boil
1 : an urn with a spigot at its base
used especially in Russia to boil
water for tea
2 : an urn similar to a Russian
samovar with a device for heating
the contents
Siesta (noun)
Etymology: Spanish, from Latin sexta
(hora) noon, literally, sixth hour
an afternoon nap or rest
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Piano, Bungalow
Piano (noun)
Etymology: Italian,
: a musical instrument having steel
wire strings that sound when struck
by felt-covered hammers operated
from a keyboard
Bungalow (noun)
Etymology: Hindi banglA, literally,
(house) in the Bengal style
a usually one-storied house with a
low-pitched roof
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Route
Route (noun)
Etymology: Middle English,
from Old French,
1 a : a traveled way <the
main route north> b : a
means of access : <the route
to social mobility --
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Part 2 - Speaking
In a group of 5, discuss and share the following:1. Have you ever been to an English-speaking
country?
4. Have you ever spoken English with a native
speaker?
6. What do you like most and least about learning
English?
7. Do you ever use your own language during your
English lessons?
8. Do you usually ask questions during your lessons?
9. Who speaks to you most often in English? Your
teacher or your fellow students?
10. What do you expect to learn in your English
lessons?
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Part 3 - Reading
Learning Another Language, By Yipei Zhou
• http://www.uoflife.com/wc/studentpapers/planguage.htm
Three steps to crack spoken English, By Zhang Hui
• http://apsb.go.nease.net/eng/engx4.html#
• What I can learn from these two articles in learning
another languages (English)?
(Prepare a 5-minutes speech)
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