Wednesday 11/30

 Today we finished going through our reading, discussing vocabulary and related subjects as we went. I also handed out the vocabulary list today.

This is the homework for tonight:

Wednesday 星期三	□ 1. Vocabulary worksheet □ 2. _______________________________________________ □ 3. _______________________________________________ □ 4. _______________________________________________

Here is the vocabulary list:

1.     barren – bleak and lifeless

2.     deafening – (of a noise) so loud as to make it impossible to hear anything else

3.     lurched – staggered, moved in an abrupt, unsteady series

4.     previous – existing or occurring before

5.     prying – excessively interested in someone’s affairs

6.     surveying -  looking over/examining something carefully

7.      they’re – they are

8.      they’ve – they have

9.      could’ve – could have

10.  who’ve – who have

11.  you’ve – you have

12.  mustn’t – must not

13. would’ve – would have

14.  shouldn’t – should not

15.  weren’t – were not

16. what’ll – what will

17.  should’ve – should have

18.  who’d – who would

19.  needn’t – need not

20.  doesn’t – does not

21.  might’ve – might have

22.  this’ll – this will

23.  there’d – there would

24.  hadn’t – had not

25.  wouldn’t – would not

26.  couldn’t – could not

Here is the worksheet for tonight:

                                                         Vocabulary                  Name: _______________

barren              deafening              lurched                   previous                  prying                surveying

 

Fill in the blanks with a word from the box

1.       Please stop _______________ into other people’s business.

2.       The surface of Mars is empty and _______________.  I don’t want to live there.

3.       The _______________ reading was about baseball.  This one is about building railroads.

4.       When the train _______________ forward, my drink spilled all over my pants!

5.       We should start _______________ the land to see where it’s flat before we build a house.

6.       I can’t sleep because of the _______________ sound of my neighbor replacing his floor.

 

Write the correct contraction for each two words:

that is		must not
you are		what will
does not		had not
they are		could have
you have		would have
were not		should have
need not		might have
there had		who have
they have		who had
this will