Sentences with phrase «few vocabulary words»

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«Many expats think that learning a few vocabulary words and learning to navigate the new city or eating local cuisine means we've adapted, but living cross-culturally requires much deeper exploration of the values and beliefs of the local community.»

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The room - filling IBM 701, fed with punch cards and armed with a vocabulary of 250 words, translated Russian text to English in a few seconds.

And yes I've been hanging out with too many Brits over the past few months and adopted the word «lovely» into my vocabulary.

If your tween has suddenly added a few salty words to his vocabulary, it might be a good time to curb his cursing.

During these two years, your little one will go from taking a few tentative steps to running, jumping, and moving with increased coordination; from using a handful of words to having a broad vocabulary (and talking up a storm); and from being able to focus for three minutes or less to having an increased attention span that opens the door to all kinds of new toddler activities.

At 14 months, your child will probably have at minimum a few words beyond the typical «Mama» and «Dada,» can point to parts of the body when prompted, will combine gestures and vocabulary to communicate desires or emotions, and will be walking independently.

This happens often after a toddler has mastered his first few words; this allows him to strengthen his receptive vocabulary (the words he understands) and «regroup» as he prepares to launch a whole new list of words.

At 18 months, your toddler will probably have a vocabulary of 10 - 20 words — which at some point in the next few months will balloon to 50 + words as their language really takes off (they will probably also be using their name to refer to themselves).

Every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos.

About 40 percent of those with autism disorder don't speak at all, and 25 to 30 percent have a few words in their vocabulary at 18 months but lose them later.

I love finding simple ways to play with materials that sneak in a few opportunities to learn and practice new vocabulary words.

Maybe her best preschool buddy has just expanded his vocabulary and thought it fun to share a few choice words with your child, or perhaps she's inadvertently caught a few episodes of a television series that uses crude language.

However, despite the financial success of these videos, one study reported that for babies from 8 to 16 months old, every hour spent watching these videos rather than experiencing human interaction resulted in their having six to eight fewer words in their vocabularies compared to other babies their age.

Once they had selected the electrode locations, the researchers began collecting data on a few computational tasks with limited vocabularies — about 20 words each.

The number plate speech recogniser only has to cope with a vocabulary of about 50 words - the phonetic alphabet, numbers, colours and a few other words.

The couple might meet a few times under the close supervision of family members, but as cultural researcher Dr. Basden writes, «The word «love» according to the European interpretation is not found in the Igbo vocabulary.»

As you write down your long list of what you're looking for and what you're NOT looking for, I urge you to take any negative words or statements out of your vocabulary, out of your profile, and out of your first few dates.

As you write down your long list of what you're looking for and what you're not looking for, I urge you to take any negative words or statements out of your vocabulary, out of your profile, and out of your first few dates.

Mountains May Depart follows a few — a happy - go - lucky Chinese woman, her working - class suitor, a millionaire who woos her into marriage, and their son, who wonders how he wound up in Australia without a word of Mandarin in his vocabulary — as they drift from 1999 to 2014 to 2025.

Overview: Page 1: Space vocabulary (word search) Page 2/3: The Big Bang Page 4/5: The Solar System Page 6/7: The Sun Page 8: Black holes Page 9: The International Space Station Page 10: Space Rubbish Page 11: Objects in Space (Comets, Asteroids and Meteors) Page 12: Fun Facts Page 13: Space Crossword Puzzle Page 14: Your thoughts about Space (Composition) The following questions are just a few examples of the aspects handled in this worksheet: - What are the planets in our Solar System?

In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear 30 million fewer words, on average, and have less than half the vocabulary of upper - income peers by age three.

What if there are fewer than twenty math vocabulary terms in the unit, so a student simply could ask each word in turn and solve the mystery within twenty questions?

A few years ago I created a Valentine's Day lesson that tasks students with writing valentines to vocabulary words.

By age 3, children from the lowest - income families have heard 30 million fewer words and have only half the vocabulary as children from the highest - income families.

Today I'm sharing a fun, relatively quick vocabulary game that helps students master a few of their trickier vocabulary words!

Teachers who make a difference in vocabulary learning set aside a few minutes each day to do something playful with words.

Share this fun vocabulary card game with your students to help them master a few of their trickier vocabulary words.

As words fall away for Winston, the hapless protagonist of the novel, as his consciousness is narrowed to the vocabulary of Newspeak, he finds himself unable to think, remember, to «fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few minutes at a time.»

Students can write one vocabulary word or a few sentences about the picture.

Other poems might incorporate a few challenging vocabulary words that need a brief explanation before reading.

You've dropped a few words here like, design, and client - centric, that may not be a part of lawyers vocabularies.

While you don't want to create a phony professional persona at work that doesn't make you feel comfortable or like you're being yourself, there are a few words that should be stricken from your vocabulary — at least at the office, if not beyond.