The Verb Well: Book 2
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2001
224 pages
978-1-926679-16-7 (ISBN)
Description
Regular verbs, irregular verbs, two-word verbs... The Verb Well Book One covers them all! Each The Verb Well book in the series is a reproducible illustrated compendium of verbs, verb forms and verb use (150 verbs each book). Thematically arranged so as to promote meaningful use and effective recall, The Verb Well introduces learners to the formal variations and the grammatical patterns required for accurate utilization of a carefully selected range of essential verbs and also displays representative contexts in which these verbs are likely to be encountered in real life. The Verb Well will be one of those indispensable books you keep coming back to again and again.
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Chirawibha Sivell | John Sivell
Verb Well: Bk. 2
A Thematic Introduction to Verbs, Verb Forms and Verb Use
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Content
1 - INTRODUCTION [Seite 6]
2 - Table of contents [Seite 7]
3 - Sections of the book and how to use them [Seite 9]
4 - A final note on the choice of verbs [Seite 11]
5 - 1: Housekeeping Clean Wash Dry Sweep Tidy up [Seite 12]
6 - 2: Managing Money Cost Earn Afford Spend Owe [Seite 18]
7 - 3: Attaching Things Fasten Nail Pin Tie up Wrap [Seite 24]
8 - 4: Moving Things Around Send Mail Pack Transport Load [Seite 30]
9 - 5: Foot Travel Walk Step March Skip Stroll [Seite 36]
10 - 6: Going Out Go out Accompany Dress Take in Reserve [Seite 42]
11 - 7: Friends Meet Get together Quarrel Break up Make up [Seite 48]
12 - 8: Conversations Ask Request Answer Speak Say [Seite 54]
13 - 9: Groups Include Exclude Participate Involve Associate [Seite 60]
14 - 10: Managing People Encourage Influence Manage Train Treat [Seite 67]
15 - 11: Winning and Losing Win Defeat Beat Lose Go down [Seite 73]
16 - 12: Strategy Control Direct Guard Fool Trap [Seite 79]
17 - 13: Success and Failure Succeed Accomplish Complete Fail Fall short [Seite 85]
18 - 14: Things Go Wrong Break Burst Burn Explode Rot [Seite 91]
19 - 15: Understanding Things Understand Realize Decide Recognize Remember [Seite 97]
20 - 16: Spoiling Things Destroy Spoil Mess up Tear Waste [Seite 103]
21 - 17: Artistic Activities Act Dance Draw Paint Sing [Seite 109]
22 - 18: Appearances Look Seem Appear Disappear Become [Seite 115]
23 - 19: Looking for Things Find Locate Search Hunt for Discover [Seite 121]
24 - 20: Getting Things Get Obtain Gain Receive Seize [Seite 127]
25 - 21: Sizes Add Expand Extend Reduce Remove [Seite 133]
26 - 22: Senses Hear See Smell Taste Touch [Seite 139]
27 - 23: Surprise, Fear Frighten Fear Cringe Surprise Startle [Seite 145]
28 - 24: Emphatic Expression Declare Shout Exclaim Repeat Whisper [Seite 151]
29 - 25: Publishing Print Publish Edit Illustrate Post [Seite 157]
30 - 26: Written Communication Write Type Read Spell Sign [Seite 163]
31 - 27: Disbelief Doubt Disagree Reject Criticize Protest [Seite 169]
32 - 28: Continuity Continue Persist Keep on Pause Cease [Seite 175]
33 - 29: Possibility Could May Might Would Tend [Seite 181]
34 - 30: Futurity Will Want to Plan Expect Anticipate [Seite 187]
35 - ANSWER KEY [Seite 193]
2 - Table of contents [Seite 7]
3 - Sections of the book and how to use them [Seite 9]
4 - A final note on the choice of verbs [Seite 11]
5 - 1: Housekeeping Clean Wash Dry Sweep Tidy up [Seite 12]
6 - 2: Managing Money Cost Earn Afford Spend Owe [Seite 18]
7 - 3: Attaching Things Fasten Nail Pin Tie up Wrap [Seite 24]
8 - 4: Moving Things Around Send Mail Pack Transport Load [Seite 30]
9 - 5: Foot Travel Walk Step March Skip Stroll [Seite 36]
10 - 6: Going Out Go out Accompany Dress Take in Reserve [Seite 42]
11 - 7: Friends Meet Get together Quarrel Break up Make up [Seite 48]
12 - 8: Conversations Ask Request Answer Speak Say [Seite 54]
13 - 9: Groups Include Exclude Participate Involve Associate [Seite 60]
14 - 10: Managing People Encourage Influence Manage Train Treat [Seite 67]
15 - 11: Winning and Losing Win Defeat Beat Lose Go down [Seite 73]
16 - 12: Strategy Control Direct Guard Fool Trap [Seite 79]
17 - 13: Success and Failure Succeed Accomplish Complete Fail Fall short [Seite 85]
18 - 14: Things Go Wrong Break Burst Burn Explode Rot [Seite 91]
19 - 15: Understanding Things Understand Realize Decide Recognize Remember [Seite 97]
20 - 16: Spoiling Things Destroy Spoil Mess up Tear Waste [Seite 103]
21 - 17: Artistic Activities Act Dance Draw Paint Sing [Seite 109]
22 - 18: Appearances Look Seem Appear Disappear Become [Seite 115]
23 - 19: Looking for Things Find Locate Search Hunt for Discover [Seite 121]
24 - 20: Getting Things Get Obtain Gain Receive Seize [Seite 127]
25 - 21: Sizes Add Expand Extend Reduce Remove [Seite 133]
26 - 22: Senses Hear See Smell Taste Touch [Seite 139]
27 - 23: Surprise, Fear Frighten Fear Cringe Surprise Startle [Seite 145]
28 - 24: Emphatic Expression Declare Shout Exclaim Repeat Whisper [Seite 151]
29 - 25: Publishing Print Publish Edit Illustrate Post [Seite 157]
30 - 26: Written Communication Write Type Read Spell Sign [Seite 163]
31 - 27: Disbelief Doubt Disagree Reject Criticize Protest [Seite 169]
32 - 28: Continuity Continue Persist Keep on Pause Cease [Seite 175]
33 - 29: Possibility Could May Might Would Tend [Seite 181]
34 - 30: Futurity Will Want to Plan Expect Anticipate [Seite 187]
35 - ANSWER KEY [Seite 193]
"INTRODUCTION (S. i)
The design of this book
The Verb Well three-book series offers a carefully crafted set of verb-vocabulary materials to cover 450 frequent and useful verbs, 150 verbs per book. Each book in the reproducible series presents thirty easy-to-learn clusters of five verbs each, with each cluster organized according to meaning. Some share a common activity or setting e.g. ""Garden"": dig - harvest - plant - rake - water. Others are governed by a key concept e.g. ""Competition"": compete - attack - fight - struggle - race. Either way, the organization has a thesaurus-like quality, in that the verbs always appear in a context created through inclusion of other related terms.
This organizational plan has two important advantages. First of all, it helps students experience success with the crucial vocabulary-learning strategy of consistently grouping new words to be learned around an easily recalled center of meaning. Such an approach facilitates visualization, verbal-association, chaining, and other familiar memory-enhancement techniques that can definitely promote vocabulary learning. Secondly, the structure of the book is designed to underline the necessity of recognizing and mastering distinctions between words that may be generally similar in meaning but that cannot be substituted for each other.
Thus, for instance, the ""Etiquette"" group includes both insult and snub, and the ""Liquids"" group includes pour, spill, and sprinkle. Introducing this fairly simple but nonetheless eye-opening level of semantic subtlety helps overcome learners' common tendency to take a one-word-fits-all approach to vocabulary learning, that short-sighted expedient can lead to learning just very general expressions which are then over-used and overextended to the detriment of precision and flexibility.
The verbs presented in the Verb Well series were chosen for frequency and utility. Three major word-frequency lists were consulted: West's A General Service List of English Words (London: Longman, 1953, rep. 1983), Kucera and Francis' Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1967), and Carroll, Davies and Richman's The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1971). A methodical computer analysis was carried out to determine which verbs tended to appear among the more frequent items on those lists, and from that selection related items were assembled to form the core of each cluster, sometimes along with a few other high-utility verbs to round out the group.
Of course, verbs make up only a part of the total word-store of any speaker, so that a selection of 450 verbs as in the entire three-book series represents a sub-set of a quite extensive vocabulary. Nevertheless, conscientious attention to frequency and utility has made it possible to bring together a very convincing and practical survey of verbs that really are worth either reviewing or learning from scratch."
The design of this book
The Verb Well three-book series offers a carefully crafted set of verb-vocabulary materials to cover 450 frequent and useful verbs, 150 verbs per book. Each book in the reproducible series presents thirty easy-to-learn clusters of five verbs each, with each cluster organized according to meaning. Some share a common activity or setting e.g. ""Garden"": dig - harvest - plant - rake - water. Others are governed by a key concept e.g. ""Competition"": compete - attack - fight - struggle - race. Either way, the organization has a thesaurus-like quality, in that the verbs always appear in a context created through inclusion of other related terms.
This organizational plan has two important advantages. First of all, it helps students experience success with the crucial vocabulary-learning strategy of consistently grouping new words to be learned around an easily recalled center of meaning. Such an approach facilitates visualization, verbal-association, chaining, and other familiar memory-enhancement techniques that can definitely promote vocabulary learning. Secondly, the structure of the book is designed to underline the necessity of recognizing and mastering distinctions between words that may be generally similar in meaning but that cannot be substituted for each other.
Thus, for instance, the ""Etiquette"" group includes both insult and snub, and the ""Liquids"" group includes pour, spill, and sprinkle. Introducing this fairly simple but nonetheless eye-opening level of semantic subtlety helps overcome learners' common tendency to take a one-word-fits-all approach to vocabulary learning, that short-sighted expedient can lead to learning just very general expressions which are then over-used and overextended to the detriment of precision and flexibility.
The verbs presented in the Verb Well series were chosen for frequency and utility. Three major word-frequency lists were consulted: West's A General Service List of English Words (London: Longman, 1953, rep. 1983), Kucera and Francis' Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1967), and Carroll, Davies and Richman's The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1971). A methodical computer analysis was carried out to determine which verbs tended to appear among the more frequent items on those lists, and from that selection related items were assembled to form the core of each cluster, sometimes along with a few other high-utility verbs to round out the group.
Of course, verbs make up only a part of the total word-store of any speaker, so that a selection of 450 verbs as in the entire three-book series represents a sub-set of a quite extensive vocabulary. Nevertheless, conscientious attention to frequency and utility has made it possible to bring together a very convincing and practical survey of verbs that really are worth either reviewing or learning from scratch."
