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... popular Twenty Questions game, you may want to vary the number of questions the class can ask Be sure to make the number clear before the game begins.) To make the game more challenging, especially ... has the best memory Start with the person next to the volunteer so that the person who said he/she has the best memory will be last (If you know who your weaker/quieter student is, start with him/her.) ... lives with when in his/her country (Sample answers: “In Japan, I live with my mother, father, two brothers and a sister.” “In Brazil, I live with my wife and two children.” “In Taiwan, I live with...
... Invite students to share their fortunes with the class, but not require them to so If the students know each other well, the fortunes may be too personal to share with the rest of the class Have students ... will and the other using be going to Tell them to make the predictions general so that they can apply to anyone in the class They can be serious or funny and should be positive Put all the cards ... predictions they hear This could be an individual activity, or a group activity where you allow the group members to compare notes briefly The group or students with the most correctly recorded...
... point Repeat the process with the second student in the pair The person in each pair with the most correct matches wins NOTE: This can be used with any verb tense, but be sure to tell the class ... REALLY KNOW YOUR VERBS! Fun with Grammar 99 Worksheet 30: SHORT ANSWERS ✄ Yes, I did No, he didn’t Yes, she had No, they hadn’t Yes, we were No, she wasn’t Yes, I had been No, it hadn’t been Yes, he ... appropriate for your class Cash register tapes work well for make-your-own strips because they can be seen by everyone They can be purchased at office supply stores or large variety stores BOARD GAME Materials:...
... the digamma function (Beal, 2003), s = is the number of right-hand-sides for X, and m is the number of observed phrase pairs in the data The sole difference between EM and VB with a sparse prior ... spans and cells requires VF (i, j), the score of the best bitext cell within a given span, as well as all cells within a given threshold of that best score For a fixed i and j, we need to search over ... pruning All produce the same set of bitext cells, those within threshold of the best bitext cell within threshold, then m is the right boundary within threshold Using these facts, we can gradually...
... interpretation problem has been studied for a long time, researchers haven’t agreed on the number and the level of abstraction of these semantic categories They can vary from a few prepositions (Lauer, ... for 22-SR) We also computed the number of pairs that were tagged with OTHER by both annotators for each semantic relation and preposition paraphrase, over the number of examples classified in that ... For example, the noun phrase the beauty of the girl is translated as frumusetea fetei (beauty-the girl-gen), and ¸ the beauty of a girl as frumusetea unei fete (beauty¸ the gen girl) For N N instances,...
... separately for the two types of adjectives Notice that the number of phraseswith object-modifying adjectives is much less than the number of phraseswith attribute-specifying adjectives (3 vs 9) This ... discriminate between each of the 12 pairs of nouns and adjective- noun phrases The average classification for phraseswith object-modifying adjectives is 0.76, whereas classification accuracies for phrases ... attribute-specifying adjectives with the object-modifying adjectives Some of the phrases contained adjectives that changed the meaning of the noun In the case of vehicle nouns, adjectives were chosen...
... boundary (Nagata et al., 2006) as the phrase identity The benefit of introducing lexical evidence without being fully lexicalized has been demonstrated by a recent state-of-the-art formally syntax-based ... reorders phrases according to knowledge embedded in function words A new indexed symbol is introduced to indicate previously reordered phrases for conciseness Step finally maps Chinese phrases ... bottom-up CKY parser with a beam to find the derivation of a Chinese sentence which maximizes Eq (18) The English translation is then obtained by post-processing the best parse We set the beam size to...
... and an adjective can be found between the Fullname part, and the Occupation part In most case, it is something 'this', or 'tile', or 'the wellknown', or 'our great', and can be easily described ... following features: There is no difference of parsing between a 'grey (autonomous) box' and a 'norreal one' Once sub-transducers have been compiled, they behave like normal words Thus, the parsing algorithms ... Figure 5: FullName.graph ~[Occupalion!:::[) [ FullN,%'ne!iiIY Figure 6: NounPhrases.graph, the label stands for any adjective (Information of the general purpose dictionary) We use a second...
... exam with the best result He 29 No one expected that he would be so successful He 30 He is said to have been in the army.People 31 It is believed ... say that he has been all over the world He is 34 Mr Jones was thought to be unfairly treated Many people 35 The wanted man is believed to be living in New ... tunnel between them There People consider that she was the best singer that Australia has ever produced She It is expected that the weather will be good...
... People with avoidant personalities view themselves as socially inept and inferior _ others 27 In 1833 Burr got married a wealthy widow, Eliza Brown Jumel; within a year she divorced him because ... rough and unfinished, either because he was satisfied _ the statues as they were or because he no longer planned to use them 36 His thesis, “A Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics,” ... 18 To be eligible _ federal registration, the mark must be used in interstate or foreign commerce 19 Newspaper Rock State Historical...
... margarine? in with between about 7.There have been many complaints your behavior with of about for 8.The trouble my mother-in-law is that she doesn't listen to anybody with about for between 9.I'm ... in between on to 3.We're out coffee Could you please go the supermarket and pick up some more? for in of to 4.This morning I received a cheque in the mail one thousand dollars about for on with ... night Let's eat out a change on for to in 10.Have you got any photos your girlfriend? about between of which ...
... margarine? in with between about 7.There have been many complaints your behavior with of about for 8.The trouble my mother-in-law is that she doesn't listen to anybody with about for between 9.I'm ... in between on to 3.We're out coffee Could you please go the supermarket and pick up some more? for in of to 4.This morning I received a cheque in the mail one thousand dollars about for on with ... night Let's eat out a change on for to in 10.Have you got any photos your girlfriend? about between of which ...
... food i.you to help me with that difficult work j.doing better work than he’s doing at present Exercise 6.Complete the following sentence with suitable prepositional phrases 1.I’m deeply grateful ... Exercise 2:Complete the sentences with one of the following verbs plus a preposition apologise complain experiment leave believe arrive die hear lose suffer belong disinguish knock pray vote ... sitting in a corner absorbed at /in checking the figures 4.They accused Helen of /with stealing the ring 5.Several youths have been expelled to /from the disco for rowdy behaviour 6.The bus rolled...