Worksheet on Grammar

Vocabulary Britain in Europe 7 Worksheet on Vocabulary ‐ Answer Key Text: How to be an Alien, from: David Beal, Britain in Europe, Viewfinder Topics New Edition plus (München: Langenscheidt, 2010), pp. 16f.
B VOCABULARY LEARNING TIPS AND EXERCISES 1 LEARN WORDS FROM CONTEXT Texts often include clues to the meaning of unknown words. Find examples in the text for the following: a) text clue “synonym” l. 77 beverage cp. ll. 62 and 79: drink German: Getränk b) text clue “antonym” l. 141 deteriorate cp. l. 140 improve German: nachlassen/ verfallen vs. verbessern c) text clue “definition” l. 3 England ll. 107 ff. When people say England, they sometimes mean… d) visual clue A picture gives a hint at a word’s meaning. (An example can’t be found in this text.) © 2012 Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München
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Vocabulary 2 REPEAT THE NEW WORDS Britain in Europe a) Which new* words might you remember as they appear in the text over and over again? (*new for you) alien: foreigner, somebody who is not a legal citizen of the country he/ she is living in the Continent/ Continental people: the mainland of Europe and its inhabitants (particularly by the British, explicitly excluding European islands) b) Write down 10 unknown words from the text which you would like to remember. Repeat them with the help of small exercises for 7 days. examples: 1. cheerful (l. 11) 2. rags (l. 14) 3. dreary (l. 17) 4. dull (l. 16/ l. 25) 5. shovel (l. 28) 6. merit (l. 33) 7. touchy (l. 38) 8. lemon (l. 73) 9. retaining  to retain (l. 80) 10. usurping  to usurp (l. 80) fröhlich, heiter Lumpen, Hadern, Klamotten düster, farblos langweilig, dumpf, dunkel Schaufel, Schippe Verdienst, Leistung empfindlich, zickig Zitrone (Limone/ Limette = lime!) behalten, bewahren an sich reißen, sich einer Sache bemächtigen 3 COLLOCATIONS, PHRASAL VERBS AND IDIOMS phrasal verb: to be better off (l. 126), climb up (l. 128), put on (l. 7) collocation: to complain bitterly (l. 168), solid block (ll. 100 f.), lovely day (l. 22) idiom: to make love (l .164), to bear fruit (ll. 70f.), to take somebody to bed (l. 163) 4 MORE TRICKS a) similarity to German words b) onomatopoeia: c) root analysis: Latin and French roots to sink/ dt. sinken (l. 95), ladder/ dt. Leiter (l. 128) gargling (l.78)/ dt. Gurgeln progress (l. 160)/ Latein progressio colourless (l. 78)/ Old French color (Daniela Pröls) © 2012 Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München
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