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• Vocabulary english

  24) Shard : pieces of a broken thing, fragments. 25) Cachet : mark of quality or distinguishing feature 26) Terra incognita : physical territory, situation in which you find yourself unfamiliar grounded, new 27) Recrudescent : to revivify or to come back to life after a period of quiet inactivity 28) Fop : reserved for guys who are too concerned with his looks/clothes 29) Schism : split, separation, also seen in religion context for situations where a sp...

• Geoffrey Chaucer I INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Chaucer Fourteenth-century English poet and public servant Geoffrey Chaucer wrote verse renowned for its humor, understanding of human character, and innovations in poetic vocabulary and meter.

  Tale of the Wife of BathThe Canterbury Tales by English poet Geoffrey Chaucer contains 22 verse tales and 2 prose tales presumably told bypilgrims to pass the time on their way to visit a shrine in Canterbury, England. An excerpt from the tale of the Wife ofBath is heard here. The wife relates that she has been married and widowed five times but the church has recognized onlyone marriage. You can follow the Middle English text and modern translation as you listen to the audio excerpt.The Wife of...

• Intelligence.

  education. Teachers had no way of knowing which of the “slow” students had true learning problems and which simply had behavioral problems or poor prior education.In 1904 the French Ministry of Public Instruction asked Binet and others to develop a method to objectively identify children who would have difficulty with formaleducation. Objectivity was important so that conclusions about a child’s potential for learning would not be influenced by any biases of the examiner. The governmenthoped tha...

• vocabulary on diversity

  Vocabulary on diversity An ethnic minority : une minorité ethnique Minority students : les étudiants issus des minorités A native country : un pays natal A host country : un pays d'accueil To welcome immigrants : accueillir les migrants A newcomer : un nouvel arrivant A citizen : un citoyen Citizenship : la citoyenneté Racial prejudice : les préjugés raciaux Cultural diversity : la diversité culturelle A multiracial society : diversité raciale Mainstream culture : la culture dominant...

• Vocabulary about education life in the classroom: la vie de classe to

  a school trip = un voyage scolaire a lesson = un cours a period = une heure de cours breaktime = la récréation the lunch break = la pause déjeuner to invigilate = surveiller assembly = l'assemblée (chaque matin, dans les écoles britanniques, tous les élèves de l'école se rassemblent dans le grand hall pour assister à l'assemblée) to cheat = tricher to put one's hand up = lever la main maternity leave = congé de maternité a supply teacher = un professeur remplaçant to cover a lesson = remplacer u...

• Native American Languages.

  From Nahuatl, spoken in Middle America, come avocado, cacao, cocoa, chile/chili, chocolate, coyote, tamale , tomato , and many others. Contributions from South American languages include jaguar, cashew, tapioca, and toucan from Tupinambá; alpaca, condor, jerky, llama, puma, and quinine from Quechua; and barbecue, canoe, guava, hammock, hurricane, iguana, maize, papaya, and potato from Maipurean (Arawakan). Native American languages, in turn, have borrowed words from European language...

• Memory (psychology).

  memory span —how many items people can correctly recall in order. Researchers would show people increasingly long sequences of digits or letters and then ask them to recall as many of the items as they could. In 1956 American psychologist George Miller reviewed many experiments on memory span and concluded that peoplecould hold an average of seven items in short-term memory. He referred to this limit as “the magical number seven, plus or minus two” because the results of thestudies were so consi...