DOD Entries Group B
English for Academic Teaching Purposes
DOD Guidelines
Participant DOD Schedule Group B
DOD 1
Week of February 19
Compiled by Karin
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| “spoonfeeding” (n) | Explaining in too detailed way In teaching: not giving a chance for students to think themselves | In Estonian: “puust ette ja punaseks!” |
| Slipshod (adj) | When doing things in incorrect way, making a smash | |
| Mindset (n) | Attitude, understanding | |
| “Carved and stoned” | Absolutely fixed opinion, view to something | Some ideas and standpoints in pedagogy are carved and stoned for centuries! |
| To cope (with) (v) | To deal with | Every teacher has to cope with students attitude towards the subject he or she is teaching |
| Awkward (adj) | Clumsy or unskillful; difficult to handle | |
| Ill-prepared (adj) | Badly (poorly, hardly) prepared for the seminar, lecture, lab, etc | I was wondering about the usage of the preposition of “ill” – it was funny how many interesting words are coming out with it (ill-office – karuteene, ill-boding – kurjakuulutav) |
| Flounder (n) | Flutter, struggle | Interesting use in the text (Plad # 1): to put much effort into “taking notes at the lectures but not getting good overview (the whole picture) about the topic. |
| Node (n) | Important issue in the study course | |
| Meticulous (adj) | Very precise, pedantic, too correct | In teaching context: meticulous way of organizing studies need a precise management of study process |
DOD 2
Week of February 26
Compiled by Valdek & Jennifer
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| Orientation | It is usual first breathing and warm-up doing | |
| Relevance of the activity to my classroom | It is connected to my belifs, valueas and so on how to use some methods in my teaching | |
| Adaptability and ease of implementation | It means how I can reflect my interest and activity in teaching by this method | |
| Sewage Rat | They are living in Estonia too, they like water. | |
| Awkward | if something is not connected, no useble. | |
| Creep (n..) | Unpleasant person | informal |
| Rubric (n.) | 1) a method and tool for grading assignments or assessing something; 2)Any title or instruction inserted in the book in a different colour or lettering | *The second use mentioned of this word is not commonly known or used by your instructor :) |
| Mole (n..) | Black mammal almost blind usually living underground | |
| Flag (v.) | 1) To wave or signal a person to stop; 2) to mark something as unusual or important | |
| Sly (adj.) | Secretive and cunning | idiom: "sly as a fox" |
DOD 3
Week of March 5
Compiled by Maarja
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| To gain access to .. | To get possibility to get in … | To gain access to specific texts… |
| Without passing through the brains of either | Without passing through the brains of either | |
| Note taking | To put on the notes | To take note of —- |
| Constructive alignment | To organise | |
| Exponential growth | Is the exponential growth in knowledge | |
| Preferred learning style | The most | To use their preferred learning style at some time during the course |
| Potential misunderstandings that can occur | Possible appear certain not clear meanings and interpretations | To presume potential misunderstandings that can occur |
| Obscurity of examples used | Not-clear meaning | Should limit obscurity of examples used |
| Good time-management awareness | Consciousness | To be aware of |
| Expedient transmission of facts | Purposeful transmission of facts… | Expedient |
DOD 4
Week of March 12
Compiled by Silvi
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| To pitch (v) | Throw, set up, hit, adapt | Phrasal Verbs (informal): pitch in — 1. To set to work vigorously. 2. To join forces with others; help or cooperate. pitch into — To attack verbally or physically; assault. pitch on/upon — To succeed in choosing or achieving, usually quickly: pitched on the ideal solution. |
| Rogue | n. 1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; 2. A vicious and solitary animal, an organism that shows an undesirable variation from a standard. adj. 1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant. 2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable 3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls | a rogue wave; a rogue tornado; Even if you do choose to accept it for a rogue case where a family needed some quick cash… |
| Go out on a limb (idiom) | In an isolated or disadvantaged position in one's support of someone or something | Climate change has birds out on a limb. |
| Coincidence (n) | The state or fact of occupying the same relative position or area in space or in time | he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs |
| Wary (adj) | On guard; watchful | Students warned to be wary of Wikipedia |
| Rapport (n) | Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity | Rapport is one of the most important features or characteristics of unconscious human interaction |
| amendment (n) | 1. The act of changing for the better; improvement 2. A correction or alteration, as in a manuscript. | Society may sometimes show signs of repentance and amendment. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote. |
| unravel (v) | a. To separate (entangled threads). 2. To separate and clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve. | The secrets within her family become unraveled in a horrifying scene in the middle of the night. |
| weak of heart (idiom) | Death (not for the weak of heart) pictures from reptiles | |
| Scavenge (v) | 1. To search through for salvageable material 2. To collect and remove refuse from v.intr. 1. To search through refuse for useful material. 2. To feed on dead or decaying matter. | Some people in Estonia scavenged the garbage cans for food scraps. Our streets are periodically scavenged. Jackals and hyenas scavenge somewhere between 20-50 percent of their diet depending on the season. |
DOD 5
Week of March 19
Compiled by Virve
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| procrastination; to procrastinate | putting off or delaying doing something | You CAN break the procrastination habit at work as well as in every other area of your life! |
| to bounce | to jump back from a solid surface | Is bouncing related to elasticity or hardness? (elasticity, in my opinion!) |
| feed into a computer | to insert information into a computer | Collecting data each day is much more immediate, and the direct feed into a computer provides almost instant analysis of trends. |
| to boil down | to reduce in size by boiling; to simplify, condense, summarize, shorten | Mary finally managed to boil her thesis down to 200 pages. |
| to pin down | 1.to get a definite answer, opinion or promise from someone; 2. to discover precise details about something | 1. The journalist pinned the politician down on the issue of sea pollution. 2. Astronomers pin down Dark Matter distribution. |
| to hear back | to gain feedback; to obtain response from someone | What should you do if you do not hear back after sending your resume? |
| to set up a contrast | to compare so as to show marked differences | The film is trying to set up a contrast between heaven and hell. |
| to bring to life | to make something interesting and relevant | The filmmakers startlingly bring to life the beauty and balance of nature. |
| to make use of something | to put to use, to use, to employ | Several teaching courses make extensive use of ‘guest lectures’. |
| to deal with the consequences | to handle the potential problems related with the results of an action or condition | Bad neighbors can be really hard to deal with. Did you know? Be prepared to deal with consequences if they come your way! |
DOD 6
Week of March 26
Compiled by Karmen
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| Sink or swim | Succeed or fail! | Till 14th Century “float or sink”, probably reflecting the fact that few people learned to swim then. |
| Iron hand in a velvet glove | Resolute personality, but a gentle look /behaviour | |
| All in the same boat | We are in this together; we all share the same risks | |
| Alpha and Omega | The beginning and the end | Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. The term appears for example several times in New Testament |
| Keep your fingers crossed | Wish me luck! | |
| Last but not least | A thing that comes at the end of a list but is nonetheless important | Our former rector Jaak Aaviksoo always loved to use it in his speeches |
| My lips are sealed | I can’t tell you, I am pledged to secrecy | |
| Better Late Than Never | An excuse for not being on time | |
| Live and let live | Mind your own affairs and be respectful to others | |
| Old habits die hard | People do not change easily | |
| Proof of the pudding is in the eating | The way to test whether something come out as it was intended is to try it. | The pudding may look good when it is put on the table, but the only way to know for certain is to taste it (proverb from 17th Century) |
| Too good to be true | If a thing looks or sounds good, something must be wrong with it. | Typical pessimistic view |
DOD 8
Week of April 10
Compiled by Koit
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| To steep tea | to make, to prepare tea | |
| To brew coffee | to make, to prepare coffee | |
| Jitters | shudders, creeps | |
| Jittery | having or feeling nervous unease, dysphoria | |
| Go cold turkey | Going cold turkey is when you stop taking some habit forming drug (such as smoking or drinking) by stopping completely, all at once | |
| Buzz | A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation. | |
| Vicarious (Latin vica-rius "substituted") | Done on behalf of others, serving instead of someone or something; that has been delegated | |
| Mock trials | a imitation trial | an extracurricular program in which students participate in contrived or fake trials to learn new skills and compete with each other |
| Foster | to nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child; to cultivate and grow, to nurse or cherish something |
DOD 10
Week of May 7
Compiled by Tamara
| Word (Part of Speech) or phrase or idiom | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| Attitude of mind | Manner of thought | Smb.`s attitude to life |
| A feeling in the bone | Inner feeling, conscience | intuition |
| Bring sb to his senses (or to reason) | Bring sb. to common/good/round sense | |
| See (or think) fit | understand something as appropriate | To consider of needful, needed |
| Beat the clock | To do something in a hurry | esp. referenced to leaving work |
| Wide awake | Be aware and conscious | |
| Beside the point (question) | Inappropriate or out of place | often used as an aside |
| Long absent, soon forgotten | idiom |
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