Monday, August 22, 2011

Hello, Cas' class!

On Thursday we will be watching the movie August Rush.


Use the Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary or the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary to find the meanings and pronunciations of these words:
  1. prodigy
  2. orphanage
  3. charismatic
  4. disheartened
  5. unwavering
  6. beckon
  7. makeshift
  8. unleash
  9. wizard
  10. impromptu
  11. enigmatic
Watch this music video of "Moondance." Who wrote it? The lyrics are here. Do you like it? Is it romantic?

Now visit the website for the Corpus of Contemporary American English. A corpus is a database of spoken and written language that allows you to search for words, phrases, word combinations, idioms, collocations, etc. to find actual samples of those terms in real contexts.

Enter the site.

Do a search on the word "unbeknownst." Explore the samples of real language where this word was used. Does this help you understand how to use the word?

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