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Dictionary Skills

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<ul><li>When you want to find out a French word, you can: </li></ul><ul><li>Ask your teacher </li></ul><ul><li>Ask your friend </li></ul><ul><li>Or </li></ul><ul><li>Look in a dictionary </li></ul>

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<ul><li>To use an English/French dictionary, you </li></ul><ul><li>need to know what all of the words and </li></ul><ul><li>letters mean. </li></ul><ul><li>On the next slide is an entry from an </li></ul><ul><li>English/French dictionary. </li></ul><ul><li>Do you know what each word or letter </li></ul><ul><li>represents? </li></ul>

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Cat [ kæt ] n chat m Word in English English word using the phonetic alphabet Type of word it is: n = noun Word in French Gender of the word. m = masculine

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Cat [kæt] n chat m The English word is in blue The French word is in black The English phonetic spelling is in italics and square brackets The n for noun is in italics The m for masculine is in italics

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Now try to label this one: <ul><li>apricot [ ɛɪprɪktɔ ] n abricot m </li></ul>

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Look up these English words and fill in the grid: pollute listen lip ham bus cackle cage beautiful apple Gender of French word (for nouns) French word Type of word. n = noun vb/vi/vt = verb adj = adjective Phonetic Spelling of English Word English Word