To get the most from them, you should try to use them in sentences, or discuss them with friends. Writing something on Twitter or Weibo is a great way to practice!
- Tip: Be a foreigner. Travel abroad. If you can't, make friends with people who can't speak your language, so you MUST use English!
- Proverb: Two wrongs don't make a right: If someone does you wrong, that doesn't mean you can now do him wrong. Learn to forgive.
- Academic Vocabulary: summary: short statement of the main point of something. "I missed class, but my friend gave me a summary of the teacher's speech."
- Literature: mermaid: an imaginary woman who is half-human, half-fish.
- Art: Sphinx: a monster who asks Oedipus a difficult question in a Greek drama. He answers it and becomes king. Also, a huge statue in Egypt.
- Slang: Hello! : not only a greeting, but used like "Wake up!" or "Pay attention." "What's your name? HELLO! I said, 'What's your name?'"
- Geography: Chicago: 3rd-largest city in US. Business center of mid-West. Called "Windy City" and "Second City" (was, until L.A. became larger)
NOTES:
- Academic Vocabulary is the Academic Word List from Oxford University Press. This is "a list of words that you are likely to meet if you study at an English-speaking university."
- The Proverb, and the Literature, Art, and Geography words are from lists in the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. I wrote the definitions and examples myself.
- The Tip and Slang words are from my own lists, and I wrote the definitions and examples myself.
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