Day #2 - Talking about Ideas

Book: Academic Vocabulary in use, Michael McCarthy et al, Cambridge Univ Press

source: http://boomonde.com/1228-3906-thickbox/cambridge-academic-vocabulary-in-use.jpg

Subject: Talking about Ideas (page 70-71)

Exercises:

31.2 Change the words in bold from singular to plural or vice versa, as instructed. Make any other necessary changes to each sentence.

1. There are some interesting PhD theses on water resources in the library. (make plural) 
2. What was your main criterion in designing your survey? (make singular) 
3. She was interested in strange phenomenon connected with comets. (make singular)
4. The hypotheses were never proved, as the data were incomplete. (make plural) 

31.3 Match the beginning of each sentence with the most appropriate ending. 

1. We must never accept the notion that intelligence is connected to race. 
2. The task of choosing an analytical framework is an important stage in any research. 
3. The book expresses his viewpoint on the role of the United Nations in times of war. 
4. Tannen has always made her stance on gender and language use very clear. 
5. Consumers have different perceptions of what low price and high quality mean. 
6. The report laid out a new model of family healthcare which changed everything. 
7. Physicists developed the concept of dark matter to explain certain observations.

31.4 Read the text and then answer the questions. Use a dictionary if necessary. 

Autonomy and creativity are two key concepts in the humanities which are often thought to be not part of scientific thinking. However, recent projects in the sciences suggest this is not true. For example, the attempt to load the components of human consciousness into a computer is a fundamentally creative activity which has profound implications for our understanding of what a human being is. Such science may make us change our way of thinking about moral and philosophical questions and may make it possible for those in the humanities to find a new grounding for their own work. 

1. Which noun means 'independence / the right to think in one's own way'?
   Autonomy
2. Which noun means the opposite of 'the sciences'?
   the humanities
3. Which adjective means 'felt or experienced very strongly or in an extreme way'?
    profound
4. What are the noun forms of think and understand used in this text?
   thinking, understanding
5. Which adjective in the text means `relating to standards of good or bad behaviour, what is right and wrong, etc.'?
   moral
6. Which noun in the text means the same as 'foundation/basis'?
   grounding