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Unit 2 Morphology (two lectures) Teaching objectivity: Make the students get some ideas of the construction and the interpretation of words in English. Encourage the students to compare the word formation and interpretation of English words with that of Chinese words. Part of linguistic competence involves the ability to construct and interpret words in ones native language. The average high school student knows about 60,000 words whose form and meaning are not derived from those of other words. Such words—including read, language, on, cold, and if, to name but a few—must be lear