Lesson #3
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· VOCABULARY Enrichment: For five or six minutes, discuss the five vocabulary words below with others in your class. (Are they all familiar to each of you? Have any of you “experienced” any of the words in context? Are any of the words unfamiliar to any of you?) Then working on your own, write each of the words next to their correct definitions, and then use them each correctly in the sentences below. Dictionary help is allowed!
allure 1.______a person with an extreme interest in something
avid 2.______to refresh or invigorate or inspire
exhilarate 3. ______to rejoice greatly
exult 4. ______very enthusiastic or committed to something
fanatic 5. ______a strong fascination, pull, or attraction
6. Ron could not resist the ______of the sea, so he joined the Navy.
7. Jodie was a Red Sox ______and never missed one of the team’s games.
8. An ______reader may finish as many as three books a week.
9. I guarantee you that a swim in the lake after a long day’s work will ______you.
10. If the team wins tonight, we’ll ______loudly all the way out of the stadium.
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· LANGUAGE/EDITING Skills: On the line below, rewrite the following sentence correctly.
dr. a. r. wilson, jr. of west sussex, england owned the oldest goldfish, fred, which was reported in
the guiness book of world records as being 41 years old.
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· WRITING Practice: On the back of this paper, use at least one of the above vocabulary words (circle it in your writing) in a 15-minute free-write, based on the writing prompt below. ( Yes, that means you need to be writing for at least 15 full minutes! )
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