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Week 31
Review A Word a Day

pity • reduce • jealous • hoarse

Write on the board the four words studied this week. Read the words with the class and

briefly review their meanings. Then conduct the oral activities below.

1 Tell students that you are going to give 3 Read each sentence and ask students
them a clue about one of the four words to tell which word is wrong. Then have
for the week. They are to find the word them provide the correct word from
that answers the clue. the week’s list.

• We should do this to the amount of • My voice is strong from yelling and
t
water we waste. (reduce it) screaming on the roller coaster.
(strong/hoarse)
g
g
• You might feel this way if your friend
won a trophy and you didn’t. (jealous) • Wash your hands often to increase the
chance of getting sick. (increase/reduce)
• This kind of voice can be hard to
understand. (hoarse) • Tess pouted because she was happy that
Elena won the prize and she did not.
• You might have this feeling when you (happy/jealous)
y
y
see a person with a broken leg. (pity)
• My aunt felt silly when she saw the
2 Read each sentence and ask students crying child looking for his mother, so
to supply the correct word to complete she helped him search. (silly/pity)
the sentence.
4 Read each sentence and ask students to
• Mom gave me medicine to my
fever. (reduce) decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
is false, instruct students to explain why.
• Trevor felt when his friend Omar
(
got his very own computer. (jealous) • You might feel pity for a hurt dog. (true)
• A hoarse voice is strong and clear. (false;
• Heather felt for the homeless cat,
y
so she took it to a shelter. (pity) a hoarse voice is weak and rough)
y
• When people reduce their spending,
• Jacob’s sore throat made his voice sound
. (hoarse) they spend more money. (false; to
reduce spending means to spend less)

• Jealous people feel merry. (false; you
don’t feel happy when you’re jealous)

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