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Week 11
Review A Word a Day

jabber • damp • task • dismiss

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

• This word describes a towel that is just • Cleaning my room is not my favorite
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a little wet. (damp) game. (game/task)
• Teachers do this to their students at the • My best friend and I like to be silent on
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end of the school day. (dismiss them) the phone. (be silent/jabber)
• You might do this if you were talking in • Dad put a load of dry clothes into the
a very excited. (jabber) dryer. (dry/damp)

• This word describes a chore such as • Each day, our teacher welcomes us at
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dusting the furniture. (a task) two o’clock in the afternoon.
(welcomes/dismisses)
2 Read each sentence and ask students
to supply the correct word to complete 4 Read each sentence and ask students to
the sentence. decide if it is true or false. If the sentence
is false, instruct students to explain why.
• Our teacher will us when we have
all finished the test. (dismiss) • Jabber means about the same as chatter.
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(true)
• My in school is to empty the pencil
sharpener. (task) • Drops of water fall from a damp towel.
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(false; a damp towel is not wet enough
• Little children often when they are
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learning how to talk. (jabber) to drip)
• Sleeping and breathing are tasks. (false;
• My brother uses a rag to clean the
mud off his soccer shoes. (damp) they are not jobs or chores; your body
does them to stay alive)

• To dismiss means to send away. (true)

Answers for page 47: 1. B, 2. J, 3. A, 4. H

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