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Week 6
Review A Word a Day

gloomy • prefer • clever • screech

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 words for to tell which word is wrong. Then have
the week. They are to find the word that them provide the correct word from
answers the clue. the week’s list.

• You could use this word to describe • Max felt cheery after his birthday party
a person who is very good at math. was cancelled. (cheery/gloomy)
(clever)
• The foolish woman made a beautiful
• You might use this word if you said that blanket from small scraps of cloth.
you like the color green better than red. (foolish/clever)
(prefer)
• I heard the monkey make silence as it
• This word describes someone who is demanded their food. (silence/screech)
y
y
very sad. (gloomy)
• I dislike carrots more than celery, so I eat
• An owl or a parrot might make one. carrots every day. (dislike/prefer)
(a screech)
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 is false, instruct students to explain why.
the sentence.
• When an airplane lands on a runway its
• I fresh tomatoes to canned ones. brakes make a screech. (true)
(prefer)
• When you prefer a certain toy, you like
• Mary felt because she was too sick it better than other toys. (true)
to go to the zoo. (gloomy)
y
y
• A clever person makes wrong choices.
• The parrot made a loud of fear (false; a clever person makes smart
when it saw a leopard. (screech) choices)
• The baker made a cake that looked • Winning first place in a contest would
like a castle. (clever) make most people feel gloomy. (false;
most people would be happy to win
a contest)

Answers for page 27: 1. C, 2. H, 3. A, 4. F

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