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    This document provides instructions for students to practice using a dictionary to look up words and determine their meanings based on context. It has students work in groups to discuss issues with online translation tools, then translate example sentences either by guessing or using a dictionary to confirm. Students are asked to look up example words with multiple meanings and decide which definition fits each context based on whether the word is being used as a noun, verb, adjective. The document emphasizes that when a word has several meanings, context clues and word class are important for selecting the appropriate definition from the dictionary.

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    Unit 2 Using The Dictionary

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    This document provides instructions for students to practice using a dictionary to look up words and determine their meanings based on context. It has students work in groups to discuss issues with online translation tools, then translate example sentences either by guessing or using a dictionary to confirm. Students are asked to look up example words with multiple meanings and decide which definition fits each context based on whether the word is being used as a noun, verb, adjective. The document emphasizes that when a word has several meanings, context clues and word class are important for selecting the appropriate definition from the dictionary.

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    Unit 2: Using the dictionary

    1. What is wrong with the Google translate tool? Work in small groups.

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    2. Read the following sentences and translate the underlined words. Do not use your dictionary yet.
    Can you guess?

    a. During Prehistory fire was very important for humans.


    Durante la prehistoria, el fuego era muy importante para los humanos.
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    b. Nero is blamed for the Great Fire of Rome.


    Nero_________________________________________
    es culpado por el Gran Incendio de Roma

    c. The soldiers were under fire from all sides.

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    d. The manager told his assistant: "you are fired".

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    3. Now use your dictionary to discover and/or confirm all the meanings above. How do you know which
    of the meanings given in the dictionary to select?

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    4. In pairs, and using your dictionaries, look up the meanings of the underlined words. They are used
    with different meanings. Decide which of the dictionary meanings is appropriate in each context. Try
    to decide if the word is a noun, verb, adjective, etc.

    FAIR

    a. Anthony is excellent in history, but his grades in micro economy are just fair.

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    Son solo buenas
    b. Jane has blue eyes and fair hair.
    Pelo rubio
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    c. Everyone has the right to a fair trial.


    Imparcial/ justo
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    d. Next Thursday we have a new job fair.


    Feria de trabajo
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    WATCH

    a. Everybody stopped to watch what was happening in the street.

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    b. Most people do not watch their diet when they are young. They eat at McDonald’s all the time.

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    c. My watch stopped. I have to change its battery.

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    CASE

    a. Their lawyer will only charge if he wins the case.

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    b. I think we need only one case of beer for the party.

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    c. There are many new cases of AIDs in Africa every year.

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    d. It was not difficult to make a case for including more women in the cabinet.

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    5. How can you use the dictionary when you have a word with many meanings?

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