5 vocabulary worksheets post

5 vocabulary worksheets post

‘Ject’

1. My VCR will not eject my tape.
2. The pen became a projectile when it was thrown across the room.
3. A diabetic may have to inject insulin with a needle.
4. Do you really know they will get married, or is that just conjecture?
5. The school will automatically reject your application if you don't pay the fee first.

‘Pre’

1. I like to take a preprandial walk to work up my appetite for dinner.
2. I don't like it when the networks pre-empt my favourite TV shows because of sports.
3. One of the jobs of the meteorologist on the news is to predict tomorrow's weather.
4. Just as a precaution, I always lock the car doors when I am driving.
5. Which of these coats do you prefer to wear tonight?
6. I don't think Mike heard a word I said because he was so preoccupied about his sick sister.
7. We got to the concert at the symphony hall just in time -- we barely sat down before the conductor started the prelude.

‘Un’

1. Unemployment was a big problem in the Great Depression as many businesses shut down and people lost their jobs.
2. After a three week battle, the fort gave an unconditional surrender and was taken over.
3. When are you going to unveil your new painting?
4 I must have been unconscious during the whole movie -- I don't remember any of it!
5. The crowd at the game got so unruly that the game was stopped until they settled down.
6. If you are uncertain about which book to read, I will help you decide.
7. It's a good thing your dishes and furniture are unbreakable, with so many unruly children in the house!
8. Many people say you should unplug your computer in a thunderstorm so that lightning doesn't harm it.
9. It's just unconscionable that he would order roast beef -- he is a vegetarian!
10. It is hard to read or hear about the unthinkable crimes that some people have committed.
11. It's unthinkable that my neat brother would ever let his house get untidy.
12. He is the most unselfish person I know - he would give everything he has away.

‘Con’

1. Pat tried to conform to the people around him so he would not look different.
2. Our group will congregate at the mall, and when everyone is there we will make our plans.
3. It's important that each person is happy with the plan, so we will talk until we reach a consensus that everyone is happy with.
4. The band will open for the concert in the park Friday night.
5. When he tried to connect the two wires, sparks flew.
6. We might go camping, but it is contingent on good weather.
7. I tried to convey to him that I really wanted to stay home, but he did not get the message.
8. Harriet Tubman was said to “conspire” people along the Underground Railroad because she led them to freedom.
9. You have to sign this form to show you give your consent for them to take you on this dangerous rafting trip.
10. A traffic accident can congest the highways for miles and miles.
11. When they saw us congregating at the mall, they were afraid we were going to conduct and commit some kind of crime.
12. I want some contemporary furniture, not old antiques from the last century.
13. The oil truck turned over and people were afraid the oil would contaminate the water.
14. Ben likes to take the time to contemplate about things he reads to get all the meaning he can out of them.

‘Bio’

1. My brother had a biopsy done on the lump on his elbow.
2. A biology class is where you learn about living things
3. You would have to write your own autobiography.
4. Termites could not eat wood without other animals living inside them that digest the wood; this is an example of symbiosis.
5. An antibiotic will help cure some diseases like strep throat.
6. Things that might spread an infection at a hospital have a biohazard label on them.
7. When fish glow in the dark it is called bioluminescence.
8. I want to read the biography of the first President of the United States.
9. The desert, the swamps and the rain forest are all part of the big biosphere.
10. If you put something biodegradable in the dump, eventually it will rot away.

Taken from:
http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/wordparts/1ject.asp
http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/wordparts/2pre.asp
http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/wordparts/3un.asp
http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/wordparts/8con.asp
http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/wordparts/6bio.asp

Flowers for Algernon blog post

Do you think ignorance is bliss or suffering?

Personally, I think that to a large extend, ignorance is a bliss and being ignorant to the surroundings is not always a bad thing.

Ignorance is a bliss to a large extend as Charlie thought that he had friends and was not lonely before he went for the operation. He was totally ignorant to how his friends treated him before his operation and he actually thought that they were playing with him. They played cruel pranks on him like asking him to wash the toilets in front of his female colleagues. Charlie, who was totally ignorant to the whole issue, just agreed to Joe Carp and Frank Reilly and even told them that he loves to wash the toilets as it is his job and he must do it well, making Joe Carp, Frank Reilly and the other female colleagues bursting with laughter. Thinking that they were playing and laughing with him, Charlie laughed along with them.

Before the operation, Charlie also enjoyed his life and job as he was never once late or misses a day of his job except for his operation and he does his job willingly, everyday without fail. Miss Kinnian also told him that he must be proud of his job and what he does as he do it good and he is very dedicated to doing that job.

However, to certain extend, ignorance is not always a bliss as Charlie felt inferior as his IQ was low and he wanted to be as clever as his friends. Due to his low IQ, he did not know how his friends treated him and he does not know that he was the victim of the jokes every time his friends made one. Every time a joke was made by his friends and they laughed, Charlie laughed along, not knowing that they were actually laughing at him. Thus, Charlie tends to feel inferior to the others and that explains why ignorance is not also a bliss.

In conclusion, ignorance is a bliss to a large extend as Charlie was happy with his job and thought that he had friends, however, to a certain extend, ignorance is not always a bliss as he wanted to be as clever as his friends and the others in order not to feel inferior to others.

10 questions about Avatar

1)Why is there fire in Pandora when there is no oxygen present there?

2)When the plane landed on Pandora, why did the natives there do not know about it?

3)Everything in the movie Avatar is coloured differently compared to Earth except for the trees. Why is it so?

4)When the humans are fighting against the Na'Vi, why did the humans not just kill the "Tree" straight away but choose to burn the small trees?

5)What is the Na'Vi main source of food if they are hunters but do not hunt much?

6)Is there really minerals such as unobtanium or did the director make it up? (I check the Internet and found that unobtanium can cure cancer?)

7)What is the message the author trying to convey through the movie? Is it about misunderstandings can cause war or others?

8)The Na'Vi in the movie were all very tall. Is it because of the digital effects that caused them to looked tall?

9)All the creatures in the movie were very colourful, how did the director get so many inspirations to create so many different types of animals?

10)The characters in the movies have many different features. Why did the director decide to make the characters have so many diffent features?

Home Learning work

This was an experiment which will mark the new beginning of Charlie Gordon's life and probably the start of new science technology, which will enable people to become intelligent all of a sudden.

This will open up a new level for technology and probably be the invention of the decade or century. For Dr Strauss and Professor Nemur, the ability to make this experiment a successful one will help not only the world, but also help themselves become famous overnight. Charlie's parents, Mr and Mrs Gordon, will also agree that the experiment should be done. That is because no parents want their children to be mentally retarded. They want the best for their children. They do not want them to go out into the world and be ostracised for their intellectual level. They want their children to be respected as smart kids that will excel in everything they do. Mr Steven Ng, a representative of the Welberg Foundation which founded the project, will also want the experiment to be carried out. Why? For his and the company benefit. The company will then be acknowledged as the foundation which founded the project and be recognised all over the world.

However, despite all this, there are still some who do not believe in the experiment. Fanny feels that it is not appropriate for Charlie to become intelligent suddenly. She gave an example of how Eve listened to the snake and ate from the tree of knowledge. It was evil, she thought. And how Charlie gained his knowledge is considered bt her as religiously unacceptable. Joe Carp and Frank Reilly cannot accept the fact that Charlie Gordon has become the present clever self. They wanted the ignorance and dullness of Charlie, but since he had become knowledgeable and understanding, they could not bear it. They wanted the old Charlie Gordon, innocent and naive.

And what I think is, the experiment should not have been carried out.

Charlie Gordon was once a man with an IQ of 68. But the change has been so sudden, his IQ had become triple. But he had a trade-off. He gained something less important than what he had lost. Friendship. Nobody wanted to friend him anymore after he turned smart. Never mind if he always got laughed at for his stupidity. Ignorance is a blessing. Probably it is better to don't know the truth than to know it. For Charlie, it might be. He once laughed with his friends over his little mistakes, but now, he cannot even laugh because he has no friends. I would rather choose to be mentally retarded with friends than intellectually capable with no one to love. Though I might be constantly teased at, but I don't know. But I know I at least still have friends who will mingle with me. IGNORANCE IS BLISS.

Blog post on thematic apperception test (TAT)

A thematic apperception test is a projective psychological test. It is such that a set of provocative pictures were shown to you and you have to use these pictures to come out with a dramatic story if they are able to for each of the pictures.
In a standard thematic apperception test, there are 31 picture cards, showing different types of pictures, there are also blank card in the set of picture cards. The test is also like a Rorschach test, which provides the examiner with sources of data, based on the our imagination, for use in the understanding of the our current thinkings.