Week5: The Remaking of the American University

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Unlikely the students from former generations, university students who are especially older, part-time working students especially those with children started to consider not only the university's education level but also convenience, service, quality and low cost.
Now university which has those advantages is highly recognized by students.

The implied main idea

Unlikely the students from former generations,  many university students are now more considerable of their convenience of their college life more than the level of the educations.

week 4

Primitive

Let’s take a look at the five top nouns that follows “primitive” (=primitive + N.) in American English, namely “art”, “life”, “people”, “sculpture”, and “man”. I screenshot the examples from an online corpus. Read the examples and make a guess about the meaning of “primitive”. Think about whether “primitive” has a positive, negative, or neutral meaning in the examples (Click the example pictures to see th enlarged images).

(1)    Primitive art

(2)    Primitive life

(3)    Primitive people

(4)    Primitive sculpture

(5)    Primitive man

(6)    What does “primitive” mean in the five phrases mentioned above.

Ancient, prertaining to a preliterate or tribal people having cultural or physical similarities with their early ancestors,unaffected or little affected by civilizing influences, 

(7)    Does “primitive” in the following five cases have a positive, negative, or neutral meaning?

Primitive + N.	Positive	Neutral	Negative
Primitive art	x
Primitive life			x
Primitive people		x
Primitive sculpture	x
Primitive man			x

Primarily

(1)    What does “primarily” mean in the article. You may want to refer to the article to decide what it means.

mainly

(2)    Find a synonym of “primarily”.

originally, initially

(3)    “Primary” is the adjective of “primarily”. One of its meanings is “happening first”. Compare “primary” and “primitive”. Do you think the two adjectives have the same meaning in this sense? Why?

I think it is slightly different. The word "primary" has meanings of  "happening first" "earlier stage", on the other hand  "primitive" has meanings of "ancient" or "under developed".

week 3

Feature (n)

1.     What does “feature” mean in the article?

something important or typical

2.     “Feature” can be a verb. What does it mean?

・to include or show something, or to be included as an important part

・to show a film,  play etc

3.     Make a sentence of “feature” as a verb.

This movie featured a famous actor.

4.     Find a synonym and an antonym of “feature” as a verb.

synonym:  emphasize

antonym: disregard, ignore

Perspective

1.     What is the part of speech of “perspective”?

noun

2.     What does “perspective” mean in the article?

the way of view

3.     Find a synonym of “perspective”.

viewpoint

4.     Make a sentence of “perspective”.

This book is written from a child's perspective.

5.     Read the following text from Journal of Environmental Health and think what “put…in perspective” means.

People tend to view factors that are beyond their control, such as pesticides on their food, as more menacing than known risks that they can control, such as smoking. In addition, most people find it difficult to place environmental risks in perspective, especially when the risk is relatively low. Clear communication and education are vital to help the public recognize the hazards, put them in perspective, and learn what can be done to reduce the risk to health.

I think it means: to make people judge the importance of health and its risks correctly

Unique

1, What does “unique” mean in the article?

unusually good and special

2. Make a sentence of “unique”.

His art work is very creative and unique.

3. Find a synonym and an antonym of “unique”.

synonym: particular

antonym: ordinary, common

4. What is the noun form of “unique”?

uniqueness