Here is the material you must record for the next class, Thursday, September 11th.

 

  1. Read and record the word on the left, then the related one on the right. The accentuated syllables in the left-column words are in bold-face.

plastic

plasticity

harmony

harmonic

Kafka

kafkaesque

engine

engineer

necessity

unnecessarily

kitchen

kitchenette

content

contentedly

volunteer

involuntarily

arbitrate

arbitrator

testimony

testimonial

tabulation

retabulate

reciprocal

reciprocity

precocity

precocious

hypocritical

hypocrite

intricate

intricacy

drama

undramatically

 

B. Read and record the following.

 

Profound changes in values will be required before the individual citizen can be expected to impact significantly on the pollution problem. Only then will the citizenry's consumption patterns change enough for the impact on the environment to be lessened. However real the emergency, there is no other realistic solution. Obviously, the current environmental crisis is just one of several simultaneous planetary suicide attempts (including civil war, slavery, and Coca Cola). These will only stop when each and every human being's conduct and lifestyle becomes less suicidal. Change starts at the grass-roots level, in how you and I conduct our affairs. Historically, this is what has really worked, and is all that can be realistically hoped for.

 

C. Complete, read and record the bold-faced portions of the text. This requires that you reformulate the descriptions as compound adjectives.

 

My dentist's assistant is bizarre. He has a bumpy, bald head.

My dentist has a _______________, ______________ assistant!

When they work on the inside of my mouth, they use special chemicals to deaden the pain. They use special _______________ chemicals.

These chemicals do not always take effect very quickly. They act rather slowly. They are rather _______________ pain-killers.

At my last visit, they installed a micro-chip in my molar that goes a quarter of an inch deep and weighs half an ounce. They installed a ____________ ____________ micro-chip in my molar!

They had to remove it right away, because it kept making an odd sound.

It would have been socially awkward to go to school with a ______________ molar!

 

D. Read and record the following text, which is full of compounds and modified noun constructions.

 

My best friend Frank is a former foreign affairs teacher from France who now teaches French. He is the one citizen of France in our French Department. (In fact, he's from the French "department" of Finistère.) That means that professionally, he is a French teacher, while from the point of view of his origins and ancestry, he is a French teacher. He is a French French teacher!!