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Week 36
Review A Word a Day
method • object • thrill • cooperative
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.
• A helicopter ride might do this to you. • Since I don’t like purple, I agree to
(thrill you) painting the house that color.
(agree/object)
• Your parents do this when they do not
want you to do something. (object to it) • Sasha was selfish and helped everyone in
her group. (selfish/cooperative)
• This is a way to do something.
(a method) • The skateboarders bore me when they
speed down the ramps and then turn
• This word describes people who work upside down. (bore/thrill)
nicely together. (cooperative)
4 Read each sentence and ask students to
2 Read each sentence and ask students
decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
to supply the correct word to complete
the sentence. is false, instruct students to explain why.
• Something that thrills you is very
• It will me to see a whale when we’re
out on the ocean. (thrill) exciting. (true)
• It is hard to work with a cooperative
• The group members listened
carefully and worked well together. person. (false; a cooperative person
(cooperative) works well with others)
• One method for cooking chicken is to
• Lisa’s for washing her dog is to put
the dog in the shower. (method) bake it. (true)
• You object when you do not agree with
• I know that my dad will if I ask to
t
see a movie on a school night. (object) something. (true)
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Answers for page 147: 1. C, 2. G, 3. A, 4. J
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