Vocabulary
Lecture One
Tasks Today
Unit 1 Text A
Memorizing Words
Assignments
Ideal Teacher
experienced
patient
knowledgeable
tolerating
Qualities of an
smart
ideal teacher
extrovert
serious
handsome
energetic
amiable
Unit 1 Text A
1. How did Baker use to feel about English courses?
2. What was his own impression of his new English
teacher?
3. What was the topic that held his attention?
4. Why did he want to write about that topic?
5. Whose essay was Mr. Feagle reading to the
class? How did the class respond?
6. Why did Baker feel so delighted?
Text Structure
Part I (1-2)
Baker was bored by English
courses.
Part II (3-5)
Baker wrote about a topic.
Part III (6-9)
Baker discovered his talent for
writing.
Words of Feeling
bored
agony
tedious
lifeless
dull
cheerless
I found English grammar dull and difficult.
Describe a person
formal
excessively prim
rigid
severe glasses
dull
out of date
inability to inspire
a comic antique
He was said to be very formal, rigid and
hopelessly out of date.
Describe a series of actions
• tackled informal essay
• distributed homework sheet
• did nothing until the essay was due
• faced up to the unwelcome task
• scanned it
Memories
• extraordinary sequence of mental images
• vivid memories
• eating spaghetti
Memories
All the good humor of Uncle Allen’s house
reawoke in my mind as I recalled the
laughing arguments we had that night about
the socially respectable method for moving
spaghetti from plate to mouth.
Words of Feeling
contempt
pleasure
ridicule
delight
enjoyment
Synonym in Context
dull
lifeless, cheerless, tedious
turn out
write, compose, put down
anticipate prepare for
formal
rigid, prim, respectable,correct
pleasure
delight, happiness, enjoyment
Synonym in Context
recapture
relive
contempt
ridicule
topic
title
vivid memories of sth. reawakes in sb.’s mind
sth. come flooding
Sb. recalls sth.
back to sb.
Key Words of Text
1. excessively exceed, excess, access
2. distribute
contribute, attribute
3. respectable respective, respectful
4. compose
constitute, comprise, consist
5. particular
partial, preferable, favorable
Key Words of Text
6. adjust
adapt, adopt, accustom
7. ignore
neglect, overlook
8. raise
rise, arise, arouse
9. encounter
confront
10.interval
gap, distance
Memorizing Words
1
Memorize meaning of words
2
Grasp use of words
词根词缀记忆法
pose
position
compose
composition
decompose
decomposable
indecomposable
indecomposability
常用前缀
分类
举例
方式
autobiography, belittle, cooperate,
combine, enable, maltreat, pseudonym,
replace, thermometer, vice president
antiwar, contradiction, counteract
disorder, illegal, mismatch, nonsense,
unknown
态度
否定
常用前缀
分类
时间
地点
方向
程度
举例
forecast, postgraduate, precedence
decline, exclude, indoor, interaction,
introvert, midland, outlive, telescope
extraordinary, overtake, superfluous,
ultraviolet, underdeveloped
常用前缀
分类
举例
数字
大小
bilateral, centigrade, macroeconomics,
microwave, multiple, minibus, monopoly,
polysyllable, semiconductor, tricycle,
uniform
常用后缀
1 shortage
√8 modernize 15 dentist
2
irritate
√
9 presentation 16 refusal
3 flexibility
10
simplify
√
17 kingdom
11 hardship
18 materialism
5 length
12 pleasure
19 pollutant
√6 sharpen
13 linguistics
20 entrance
4 psychology
7 enjoyment
14 refugee
常用后缀
√1 consequently 8 imaginary
15 critical
2 sensible
9 golden
3 ignorant
10
straightforward
17
poetic
√
4 carefree
16 cheerful
11 burdensome
18 fearless
5 childish
12 awkward
19 warlike
6 roughly
13 sunny
20 wooded
√7 likewise
14 dangerous
分类归纳记忆法
addition
同族归类
plus
minus
times
by
add
subtract
multiply
divide by
addition subtraction multiplication division
相关归类
同反义归类
逻辑联想记忆法
1.词义联想记忆
cocky, charisma
2.谐音联想
chaos, sting
词语搭配
arise
problems arise
主谓
progress
make progress
动宾
vacant
vacant lot
偏正
Assignment
1. 本单元重点单词造句、区分（上交）
2. 自学Unit 1 Text B和Unit 8；预习Unit 2
3. 记忆词汇表1中的所有单词
4. 完成《奠基篇》Unit 1词汇部分