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SIS Guest Lecture Week 2 Vocabulary Preparation
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- 1Each dark blue card has a definition of a key word from the text about the campus redevelopment masterplan. Try to remember the word and its pronunciation, then click on the card to check your answer.Ready? .......Go!
- 2a plan giving all the details of how you intend to succeed in doing something difficultMasterplan (noun)
- 3someone’s idea or hope of how something should be done, or how it will be in the futurevision (noun, countable)
- 4official instructions to do a job, saying how it should be donebrief (noun, countable)
- 5a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgmentsframework (noun, countable)
- 6a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of timestrategy (noun, countable)
- 7the protection of buildings or objects of historical importanceconservation (noun, uncountable)
- 8to deliberately destroy a buildingdemolish (verb, transitive)
- 9to keep someone or somethingretain (verb, transitive)
- 10to improve a room or a building by cleaning and painting it, adding new furniture or equipment etcrefurbish (verb, transitive)
- 11making you feel enthusiastic or excited about somethinginspiring (adjective)
- 12the most important or central place where a particular activity takes placehub (noun, countable)
- 13the process of working with someone to produce somethingcollaboration (noun, uncountable)
- 14You've finished the exercise! Do it a few more times until you can remember the key words. See if you can think of other words in the word family, eg Collaboration (n) - collaborate (v)Try saying the words aloud so you know how the speaker will pronounce them.
- 15Source of all definitions in this exercise: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ accessed 12.4.16 You will find example sentences in the dictionary.Time for a break!
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- Use this resource to help learn new vocabulary relevant to the Glasgow University Campus Redevelopment.
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