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The Origins of Our Words a vocabulary-building programme based on word origins and
research |
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The programme, collated from task sheets and transparencies
developed over many years of classroom use, includes Æ
34 pages of ready-to-photocopy
write-on worksheets (also formatted as paper-saving task sheets); Æ
33 pages of detailed
answers; and Æ A PowerPoint Presentation on the history and development of
English; also formatted for photocopying (and 22 masters for OHP transparencies
if anyone still uses these). |
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Contents
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Part 1 |
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Introduction |
2 |
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Answers to
all task and worksheets |
3 - 33 |
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Part 2 – Write-on
Worksheets |
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1.
Words Named after Places |
1 |
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Words Named After People |
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Words from Situations and Events |
5 |
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Words from Literature |
7 |
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Words from Greek and Roman Mythology |
9 |
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Where the Scientists Turn |
12 |
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7.
Combination |
14 |
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8.
Invention |
15 |
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9.
'Loan' Words from Foreign Languages |
17 |
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10. 'That
Foreign Flavour' |
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11. 'That
Foreign Flavour' 2 |
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12. Words from
Ancient Languages |
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13. Word
Families |
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14. Words From
Latin |
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15. More Latin
Roots |
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16. Still more
Latin |
28 |
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17. Greek Roots |
30 |
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Appendices |
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Old English Worksheet |
32 |
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Neologisms from the Nineties |
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Part 3 – Task Sheets
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as above |
1 - 18 |
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More Than
Just Research – Thinking Required! |
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Slang Today
and Gone Tomorrow |
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Part 4 – Background
Notes
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The Story
of English - OHP transparency masters |
1 – 16 |
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The Story
of English – b&w, reduced for printing |
1 – 10 |
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So Where do
New Words Come From? (+ OHT master) |
11 |
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How Words
Change (+ OHT master) |
12 |
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The
Prevalence of 'Loan' Words (+ OHT master) |
13 |
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An
Historical Menu (+ OHT master) |
14 |
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Words of
the Twentieth Century |
15 |
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A Bank of
Loan Words into English |
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A Bank of
Loan Words into English 2 |
18 |
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To see sample pages – a worksheet and a page from
the photocopiable history of the English language -
click on the link below |
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