EL001 Pre-Pathway Module 2010Grammar and Vocabulary DevelopmentSession 12
Lexical SetsComplexity in contextPattern grammar
Maddison counting
A long, passionate affair with numbers has finally come to an endApr 29th 2010 | From The Economist print edition
Office politics
Microsoft bids to keep its grip on corporate computing against Google's challengeMay 13th 2010 | SAN FRANCISCO | From The Economist online
The best books
The Economist's international correspondent on books about languageMay 4th 2010 | From The Economist online
Maddison counting : lexical sets
Angus Maddison John Maynard Keynes
Adam Smith
William Petty, the pioneer of “political
arithmetic”
The King The Dutch
Bart van Ark, now chief economist of
the Conference Board
Abu Fazl, vizier to Emperor Akbar
Maddison counting : lexical sets
April the 24th 1990 1995
1820 2001 1AD
A lengthening span of time
1665 The distant past
The 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century
83 13 £40m
A chiffrephile – a lover of figures estimate
A long passionate affair has finally come to an end
He had his first serious crush
Tickled his fancy
Pursued
National income Estimating GDP for a growing range of
countries
Estimated the income of England and Wales at £40m
A lot of economic progress
Living standards World output
PATTERN GRAMMAR
contrary provide supplied
imposed according explain
saw cared culminated
relied suffer deeply fond
doubted assumes described
disagree