7277194-Extended-Vocabulary-PPT

Extended Vocabulary : 

Extended Vocabulary Unit 4

How to answer EV questions? : 

How to answer EV questions? The extended vocabulary question requires you to examine the meaning of a phrase or sentence in relation to the subject matter of the passage. The processes involved in tackling Extended Vocabulary questions are: Identify key words in phrase or statement (given in the question) and rephrase them Contextualise the point by including essential details that clarify the key words

Sample Question : 

Sample Question Rewrite in your own words the penultimate sentence, 'And usually … your life' (lines 80-83), so as to explain what the author is saying. (Nov 2001 Qn 5) [4]

Given Passage : 

Given Passage The truth is that all teenagers create turbulence in their families. Even the ones with perfect teeth. Everything changes, parents and children, and often not in step with one another. There's no going back. Only the opportunity to get smarter. And usually, when it's all over, you get what you originally ordered - someone quite separate from you, but closely related, who might win a Nobel Peace prize, or marry someone terrible, and whatever, you'd trust them with your life. Or did you hope he'd have a shiny face and be in bed by eight for ever?

Identify -> Rephrase : 

Identify -> Rephrase 'When it's all over' = when teenagers no longer create turbulence in their families → when they have grown up 'you get what you originally ordered' = their parents have what they hoped for 'someone quite separate from you' = the child has grown independent 'but is still related' = is still part of the family

Identify -> Rephrase : 

Identify -> Rephrase 'who might win a Nobel Peace Prize' = do something really worthwhile /beneficial 'marry someone terrible' = do something their parents disapprove of 'and whatever' = no matter what he does 'you'd trust them with your life' = parents have faith in them

Answer : 

Answer When teenagers have grown up (½), their parents have what they hoped for (½). They have before them a child who has grown independent (½) but is still part of the family and/or is still emotionally bonded to the parents (½). Their child might do something really worthwhile (½) or do something their parents disapprove of (½), but no matter what he does (½), their parents have total belief/faith in them (½).

Let’s Do Extended Vocabulary : 

Let’s Do Extended Vocabulary Exercise 4.2

Sample Question 1 : 

Sample Question 1 What does the author mean by 'our few split-seconds of existence'? [1]

Given Passage : 

Given Passage There are subtler forms of this irreversible damage to which we pay little attention. Every time another acre of farmland goes under concrete or tarmac for housing or roads, the productive capacity of that patch of topsoil is lost. Given the huge uncertainties that now hang over a future threatened more and more by global warming, it seems folly to talk of any land being 'surplus to agricultural requirements'. Who are we to identify 'permanence' in this way, as we live out our few split seconds of existence? Refining a barrel of oil to produce petrol for immediate use means that you cannot use that oil in future as a chemical feedstock or for any other purposes. However optimistic we might be about proven oil resources (which indeed have increased massively over the last 20 years), is it really right that we should squander so huge a share of this finite natural resource on propelling millions of lumps of metal over millions of kilometres to produce millions of tonnes of pollution?

Identify -> Rephrase : 

Identify -> Rephrase Our few split seconds of existence = our life is of a very short duration Relevant Context Irreversible damage (to the environment) [main idea of the paragraph] →our future threatened more and more by global warming

Answer : 

Answer Our life is of very short duration [½] when compared with the life of the planet/the long-term damage we inflict on it. [½]

Sample Question 2 : 

Sample Question 2 What does the author mean by the “garden is not manicured into conventional beauty but replicates rural Irish terrain”? [2]

Given Passage : 

Given Passage The proposal to commemorate the World Trade Centre tragedy with a new office complex and shopping mall, and a plaque dedicated to the fallen, is appalling. The overriding motive is to exploit “a prime piece of real estate”; a token plaque fails to communicate any poignant symbolism at all. Those who will make such decisions can surely take a lesson from the symbolism of the Irish Hunger Memorial in New York City, honouring victims of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 that brought to America the forefathers of today’s Irish-Americans. Upon first consideration, the Irish Hunger Memorial is as literal as literal can be. The cantilevered, tilted plane of actual soil from Ireland bears a fallow potato field, with flora native to Irish wetlands. The stones are really from each of Ireland’s 32 counties. The 300 million-year-old limestone in the walls, containing natural fossils, was shipped from the Irish seabed. The garden is not manicured into conventional beauty but replicates rural terrain, with an authentic abandoned stone cottage carefully conveyed from Ireland in the middle of it. Brian Tolle, the artist, has successfully transposed the power of place from Ireland to New York.

Identify -> Rephrase : 

Identify -> Rephrase 'manicured ' = shaped / artificially / designed / arranged and groomed 'conventional ’ = usual, standard ‘replicates’ = copies ‘rural’= countryside

Answer : 

Answer The grounds have not been shaped/artificially designed/arranged and groomed [½] to conform to the usual, standard ideas of an attractive area. [½] Instead, it is an actual copy/model of [½] the topography of the Irish countryside. [½]

Sample Question 3 : 

Sample Question 3 Explain what the writer means by “human character is now Earth’s destiny.” (line 36) Use your own words as far as possible. [1]

Given Passage : 

Given Passage The integration of markets and cultures means that more and more people do the same thing at the same time. Ideas and fashions turbocharged by the global marketplace rework the fabric of nature. Myths about the aphrodisiacal properties of rhinoceros horn and tiger bone have produced such consumer demand that both great mammals are close to extinction in the wild. Something as innocent as a taste for sushi has virtually stripped the North Atlantic of giant blue fin tuna. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, human character is now earth's destiny.

Identify -> Rephrase : 

Identify -> Rephrase 'human character’ = actions / behaviour of Mankind ‘earth's destiny‘ = decide the fate/future of the planet .

Answer : 

Answer He means that the actions / behaviour of Mankind (½) will decide the fate of the planet (½).