Unit 1 steps to your career audio sepis nomerajin gza danjo azin you will hear six people speaking about words and dictionaries.0:00
Match what they say with the questions in your workbook.0:11
Speaker 1 A dictionary is a special kind of book that contains various information about words.0:15
You can learn the meaning of words and where they come from.0:21
You can learn how to spell words, how to say them, how to A dictionary can offer some special information about words and show how they change.0:24
There are often examples that explain how to use words.0:32
Speaker 2 Many words have an interesting story to tell us.0:36
Some of them have been borrowed from foreign languages.0:41
Some have changed their meaning greatly since the time they were first used in dictionaries for children.0:44
Sometimes there are special word boxes that offer short stories in the form of word histories which are printed below the words whose stories they tell.0:50
Speaker 3 the words we use when we speak or write are divided into different groups.1:00
These groups are called parts of speech.1:07
The parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.1:10
In dictionaries, a word's part of speech is usually indicated right after the pronunciation.1:19
Speaker 4 Dictionaries can answer many questions about words, but for many people, the most important thing about them is their definition.1:26
That's why it usually comes right after the word itself.1:34
In dictionaries, many words have more than one meaning.1:37
In this case, all of them are listed separately and numbered.1:40
The one that is used most often is listed first and is followed by the second most commonly used, and so on.1:43
Speaker 5 In many dictionaries, after the definition of a word, there is a sentence or sentences which show how words operate in speech.1:51
These examples make a word's meaning clearer.2:00
Whenever you hear or read a new word, you get an idea of what the word means from the way it is used and the words it is used with.2:03
Speaker 6 Because there are so many words in a dictionary, they are always arranged according to system.2:13
In most dictionaries, they are arranged in an alphabetical order and are printed in bold black letters.2:19
They are called main entries.2:25
You will find these words in the left hand side of each column on a dictionary page.2:27
Клик по слову — перевод и «+ в мои слова» (в любом режиме). Клик по строке или таймкоду — перейти к этому месту записи.