Exercise 13

Concordancer Exercises

Revision

Can you match the halves of the sentences that contain some of the phrases and structures we have looked at with the Web Concordancer over the last 12 week?

 

Answers

 

1. If the reporter decides to keep the source secret, she must do so, no matter

 

a. from happening.

2. Culturally

 

b. who asks for the information.

3. I feel that the government was established to prevent this situations and others of national problems

 

c. on life.

4. Yet the media does not emphasise

 

d. these deaths as much as nuclear plant accidents

5. There are also examples of where a lack

 

e. speaking, it appears that T.V. has some detrimental aspects.

6. They work together to reunite the families and to give them a more positive outlook

 

f. of animal testing comes back to haunt humans.

 

Key to Last Week’s Exercise: Research Question: 12

1.     rise drop outperform increase jump fall back reduce

2. No. In lines 20,21 it is 'sharply increase'

 

Key to Revision

1. b                         4. d

2. e                        5. f

3. a                        6. c

 

More Resume websites:

http://www.evergreen.edu/career/jobHuntingMistakes.htm

http://www.astbury.org/humour/resquote.htm

 

Someone in Civil Engineering has collected a few ‘bloopers’:

http://www.civilengineeringjobs.com/reshumor.htm