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8/18/2019 How to Use a Dictionary Powerpoint

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Dictionary Skills: Your ally on state

exams

ESL/Basic English

DictionariesBilingual Dictionaries

Picture Dictionaries Standard Monolingual Dictionaries

Standard MonolingualDictionaries


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Dictionaries are books

that list all the words in alanguage


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!ith a Dictionary" you can learn:

#$ow to s%ell a word

#!hat a word means

#$ow to say a word

#!hat %art o& s%eech a word is#$ow many syllables are in a word

#!hether or not to ca%itali'e a word

#$ow to abbre(iate a word )ex* +S,-

#Meanings o& %re.xes and suxes &or a word


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$ow is a Dictionary

0rgani'ed1


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2o understand the im%ortance o&dictionary skills and why theymust be %racticed 032E4" try

this acti(ity5


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Dictionary Skills must be intentionally

taught and practiced OFTENAll words in a dictionary are listed in alphabetical order.

Look or a partner. The ollowing words are not in alphabetical

order. !ut them in order as "uickly as you can#

• $allot% poll% caucus% incumbent% &ote% president% nominee%

constituency% debate% elect% campaign% oice% candidate%

ederal% electoral college% democrat% republican% whig%

reerendum. '(ou ha&e )* seconds+

,


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-sing the dictionary

• Find the deinition or oice/ 'with a

political reerence+.

• Now% look up the term 0eto !ower/. 1hat

page is it on2

3


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Dictionaries

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!here6s the de.nition &or%um%kin %ie17171

8,te9 isn6there77

2here are EIGHT de.nitions&or 8dri(e9171 !hich one7

2he teacher said 8%hiloso%hy9was in here under 8%9 6mtotally lost7

!hat6s a guideword1

0k gi(e u% 2his bookisn6t hel%ing me ATALL!


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2o make

dictionarieseasier touse" thewords areorgani'ed in

al%habeticalorder

Your .rst key to rememberwhen using dictionaries


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Since there

are so manywords in adictionary"guide words are used to

hel% youlocate a word

;uickly

Your second key to rememberwhen using dictionaries


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$ow do guide words hel%

you .nd a word ;uickly1•Look at the guidewords

•+se what you knowabout

al%habeti'ing todecide i& your word&alls between the

two guide words


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Let6s see what that means#

Let6s %retend we arelooking u% the word"

science 3irst we wouldturn to the S section


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2hen we would use the

guide words and what weknow about al%habeti'ing

to decide the correct %agein the S section


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!e would look at the

guide words at the to% o&each %age and decide

which ones our wordwould come between in

al%habetical order


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Let6s do that &or the word

science#!hich one o& these

%ages would contain theword science1


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2he %age with the guide words#

stam% # summer

0r the %age with the guide words#

sandwich # se(enty

science


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Dictionary De.nitions

!hat do they mean1 Your third key toremember when usingdictionaries: Be care&ulwhat de.nition youchoose


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$a(e you e(er looked u%

the de.nition &or a word inthe dictionary1

& so" then youmight ha(e beencon&used by some

o& the %arts o& thatde.nition


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2oday" we6re going to

learn what each %art o& ade.nition means


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=0>,B+L,?Y• 5eadword6 the word you are looking up. 7t

is always in bold type.

• Entry6 the inormation on the word you are

looking up.• !ronunciation6 tells you how to say the

word. Found in 'parentheses+.

• !art o speech6 tells you how the word isused in a sentence 'n=noun, v=verb,

adj=adjective, adv=adverb).


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=0>,B+L,?Y

• Deinition6 all possible meanings or the

word. 8any words ha&e more than one

meaning.• E9amples6 Shows you how the word is used

in a sentence. -sually ound in italics.

• Etymology6 this tells you the history o theword% and what language it came rom.


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2his is a de.nition &or @ag:

@ag )@ag-

1. noun , %iece o& cloth with a%attern or symbol o& acountry" an organi'ation" etc

A verb 2o sto%" or to signalWe fagged down the police

ocer.


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@ag )@ag-

1. noun , %iece o& cloth with a%attern or symbol o& a

country" an organi'ation" etcA verb 2o sto%" or to signal

We fagged down the policeocer.

2he word being de.nedis &ollowed by the

%ronunciation in%arenthesis


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@ag )@ag-

1. noun , %iece o& cloth with a

%attern or symbol o& acountry" an organi'ation" etc

A verb 2o sto%" or to signalWe fagged down the policeocer.

2he .rst word tells the word6s%art o& s%eech


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1. noun , %iece o& cloth with a

%attern or symbol o& acountry" an organi'ation" etc

A verb 2o sto%" or to signal We fagged down the policeocer.

2he next section is the actualde.nition o& the word


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1. noun , %iece o& cloth with a%attern or symbol o& acountry" an organi'ation" etc

Averb

2o sto%" or to signal We fagged down the policeocer.

3inally" you might see a

sentence showing how theword is used Es%ecially i& theuse is not the most common &or

the word


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5ow do 7 decide which Deinition to

use2:. Decide how the word is used.

;. . 7 the sentence still makes sense% then you ha&ethe correct deinition.


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4ow you know how to use a

dictionary7

,nd understands theim%ortance o& good

dictionary skills


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Activity• ?hoose a word to lookup in the dictionary.

1rite that word anddictionary entry on a

piece o white paper.

Label the parts o theentry.

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