ENGLISH 7 LECTURE

1. ENGLISH 7

2. Literary
Skills

3. GENERALIZATION
•Is a broad statement about a
subject based on provided
information, observations and
experiences.

4. •Related to the information
presented in the essay plus your
own experiences, what
generalization can you make about
bullying?

5. What advice would you give to a
friend if he/she experienced being
attacked physically?
Give instructions on how to deal
with a bully who beats his/ her
victim.

6. GLOBAL VILLAGE
- Is a term to describe the societal,
cultural, and community effects of
telecommunications.

7. What does “How to Fight Big
Bullies” teach you in order to work
cooperatively and act responsibly in
today’s global village? Give three
examples.

8. QUALITY OF CONTENT
-refers to the importance of the
writer’s topic, the depth of the
writer’s knowledge and analysis of
the topic, and the appropriateness of
the writer’s discussion and
treatment of the topic.

9. •In the “How to Fight Big Bullies”,
what information that is worth
knowing and thinking about does
the writer provide his or her
readers?

10. •Do you think the writer knows
his or her topic very well?

11. •How does the “quality of content”
as element of effective expository
texts, contribute to the theme of the
essay?

12. •Put yourself in the story by thinking
about what the characters in the
story see, hear, taste, feel and
smell.

13. •What images do you see, hear, feel,
taste and smell? List them on the
diagram.

14. Five
Senses
Sight
Touch
Sound
Smell
Taste

15. Vocabulary
Skills

16. Recognizing
Ambiguous Words
•Context Clues
•Lexical Clues

17. •Context clues
are words and phrases in a
sentence that help you identify the
meaning of words that are
unfamiliar

18. •Lexical clues
are words or definitions given
by the dictionary to an unfamiliar
word in a sentence that help you
identify the meaning of words that
are unfamiliar.

19. Example
“ I don’t like flying planes.”
(1) I don’t like to fly planes.
(2) I don’t like planes that fly.

20. Write the possible meanings.
Ambiguous
Word
Possible
Meaning
Ambiguous
Word
Possible
Meaning
draw double
flat dress
break cut
run fall
court drink

21. The following sentences are all
grammatical, but because of
ambiguity, we find them difficult to
understand. Give the two meanings of
each.

22. •Ralph gave her cat food.

23. •He went to the bank.

24. •The dogs barked at the cat in
the park.

25. •They are hunting dogs.

26. •She hit the man with an
umbrella.

27. minute : hour :: ounce is to pound
COMPLETING
ANALOGIES

28. fork : eat :: shovel : hole
glasses : read :: crutches : walk

29. cat : kitten :: goose : gosling
sheep : herd :: ant : colony