First Class of Vocabulary and Etymology

1.Recommended Online dictionaries:

Macmillan Dictionary 

Mirriam Webster 

2.About vocabularies

Prefixes 字首

Suffixes 字尾

Roots 字根 置於前中後皆可

3.Cupid & Psyche

Cupid and Psyche is a story originally from Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass), written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus). It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (/ˈsaɪkiː/, Greek: Ψυχή, "Soul" or "Breath of Life") and Cupid (Latin Cupido, "Desire") or Amor ("Love", Greek Eros ’′Ερως), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage. Although the only extended narrative from antiquity is that of Apuleius, Eros and Psyche appear in Greek art as early as the 4th century BC. The story's Neoplatonic elements and allusions to mystery religions accommodate multiple interpretations, and it has been analyzed as an allegory and in light of folktale, Märchen or fairy tale, and myth.

4. The history of English in ten minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njJBw2KlIEo 

5. The world of English

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1wsHtM8Gc8ZWDJ2OWkyY1BKcDA/edit?pref=2&pli=1 

four people who impact on English

1. Samuel Johnson 

2. King James

3. William Caxton

4. Noah Webster

6.  Vocabulary 

1. bene-  means well : benefactor , benediction , benevolence

2. male means bad : maleness , malefactor , malefic

3. ad means to, near, at , with regard to, in relation to as prefix : admit , advent , adequate 

4. circum- means around : circumcision , circumference , circumflex

5. pump the gas -----idiomatic expressive

6. equal:  ____ + ____ equals to _________