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รบกวนขอเฉลย แบบฝึกหัด ในส่วนของที่อาจารย์ให้ฝึกทำ หัวข้อ Guessing the Meaning of Words from the Context โดยเนื้อหาแบบฝึกหัดอาจารย์ให้โหลดในส่วนของงานเสริมที่ไม่เกี่ยวกับแบบฝึกหัดที่ได้รับจากทาง มสธ ค่ะ http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~pkanchan/pdf/vocal1.pdf ขอบคุณค่ะ

Hello peaceful,

I'm not sure if it's a good idea for us to give you an answer key for this type of material. (Would the authors be happy with that or not - who knows?) Moreover, most of these exercises are not difficult as long as you take the trouble to use your dictionary! For example, you may not know that the adjective form of "affection" (noun) is "affectionate". But you can easily discover that by checking a good monolingual dictionary. In my view, the whole point of this material is to give you some practice in dictionary use. Providing you with an answer key would make it too easy.

That said, if there are certain items that you just can't figure out, please post them here and we can try to help. For example, sometimes several different suffixes might occur with one root, and you need to decide from context which fits - that can be difficult. Good luck!

Hello Peaceful

Ajarn Chris has explained a practical approach to learning English. This way you are expanding your knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar at the same time.

Speaking of dictionary, I will post more resources for module 2

Feel free to leave your questions on the web board and we can chat more.

chris wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:44 am

Hello peaceful,

I'm not sure if it's a good idea for us to give you an answer key for this type of material. (Would the authors be happy with that or not - who knows?) Moreover, most of these exercises are not difficult as long as you take the trouble to use your dictionary! For example, you may not know that the adjective form of "affection" (noun) is "affectionate". But you can easily discover that by checking a good monolingual dictionary. In my view, the whole point of this material is to give you some practice in dictionary use. Providing you with an answer key would make it too easy.

That said, if there are certain items that you just can't figure out, please post them here and we can try to help. For example, sometimes several different suffixes might occur with one root, and you need to decide from context which fits - that can be difficult. Good luck!

Thanks a lot teacher chis.
My answer at EXERCISE3: 2.D,3.B,4.D
Lesson 1
Exercise 1 : 1 a 2b
Exercise 2: 1F 2G 3D 4C 5E
Lesson2
Exercise 1:1dangerable 2negative 3poisonous 4radioactive 5reliable 6primitious
Exercise2:1religious 2.refundable 3.nervous 4.expensive 5.drinkable
Lesson 3
Exercise
1unreasonable
2unattractive
3invisible
4unexpensive
5nonbreakable
6inpoisonable
Lesson 4 is very difficult for me.
1exchanged
2exchanged
3transmission
4transformed
5telephoto
6midway
7installed
8interview
Lesson 5
1sleepless
2careful
3affectionly
4cheerful
5attentively
6freindly
Thank you
มีเพื่อนคนไหน ลองทำกันบ้างหรือยังค่ะ เอามาแลกเปลี่ยนกันเพราะไม่รู้ว่าที่ทำถูกหรือเปล่า รบกวนชี้แนะด้วยค่ะ โดยเฉพาะ Lesson 4 งงมากสำหรับเรา ขอบคุณมากค่ะ

Chirasiri wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:10 am

Hello Peaceful

Ajarn Chris has explained a practical approach to learning English. This way you are expanding your knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar at the same time.

Speaking of dictionary, I will post more resources for module 2

Feel free to leave your questions on the web board and we can chat more.

Thank you.

Although I may not have caught all the mistakes, here are some comments.

A person who is unreliable can’t be relied on or trusted. An incurable disease can’t be cured – there is no cure for it. I would use “non-smoker” only to describe a person, not a place, although perhaps this is possible in some specific context, like a non-smoking car on a train. Also, be aware that non-smoker is a noun, not an adjective. “Primitive” is correct.

The suffix –able is what linguists call “productive”. This means you can attach it to almost any verb with the meaning “able to be Xed”. Therefore you won’t find all the possible words with –able in dictionaries. However, there are cases where –able isn’t a good fit with a certain verb. For example, we wouldn’t say something is “poisonable”. The only derived adjective that works here is “poisonous”, meaning not something that is vulnerable to poison, but something that can poison others.

For negating adjectives, the correct form is “inexpensive”. With –able, I believe un- is often correct, although there are cases like “indistinguishable”. Possibly -ible tends to take in- as well. You can even have two parallel forms like “illegible” and “unreadable”, both meaning “unable to be read”. It’s possible that you can find learners’ dictionaries that give you the correct way to negate each adjective (in other words, whether you use in-, un-, or non-). A good resource for this would be useful!

The Lesson 4 exercise does seem difficult, and context clues are important. The air conditioner was installed (put in the car, which otherwise wasn’t changed), but the hotel was transformed (changed in a more fundamental way.) Several of these involve collocations, like “telephoto lens” and “automatic transmission”. Another collocation is “interstate highway”, or a road that goes between states (a different term would probably be used outside the USA.) I think “interstate trip” is a bit awkward, but it might be okay.

Hope that helps!

Thank you very much teacher Chris.That's very kind of you.

Lesson 1
Exercise 1 :
1 b 2b
Exercise 2:
1 c 2 g 3 d 4 a 5 e

Lesson2
Exercise 1:
1 dangerous 2 negative 3 poisonous 4 radioactive 5 reliable 6 primitive
Exercise2:
1 religious 2 refundable 3 nervous 4 expensive 5 drinkable

Lesson 3
Exercise
1 unreasonable 2 unattractive 3 invisible
4 inexpensive 5 nonbreakable* 6 nonpoisonous

Lesson 4
1 interstate
2 exchanged
3 transmission
4 installed
5 telephoto
6 midway
7 transformed
8 interview

Lesson 5
1 sleepless 2 careful 3 affectionate
4 cheerful 5 attentively 6 friendly

Here are my answers...let's have a look.

Note** Lesson 3 No.5 the word "nonbreakable" sounds a little strange to me because I've only heard the word "unbreakable" but it wouldn't fit in the crossword puzzle exercise ^_^.

I don't see any mistakes there - nice job! Yes, I would also prefer "unbreakable".

Thanks a lot Kr.5810020320.