Essential vocabulary in context athematic approach to enrich students’ knowlecge of words 1

Essential vocabulary in context athematic approach to enrich students’ knowlecge of words 1 Essential vocabulary in context athematic approach to enrich students’ knowlecge of words 1 Essential vocabulary in context athematic approach to enrich students’ knowlecge of words 1

A thematic approach to enrich

students’ knowledge of words

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Preface

What size is it?

Moving your body

Where are you going? Moving things

Where is i†?

Getting dressed

Fiow you feel

Friends and relatives YOur faœe

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Being hurt

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Vocabulary in Context is a set of six workbooks intended to help students learn

and use the vocabulary related to a particular subject or situation, such as ‘Friends

and relatives’ or ‘Where are you going?’ Each book contains 15-20 units, based

on different themes The units are self-contained (that is, none of them depends on

vocabulary learnt in an earlier unit), so that they can be used in any order However,

similar themes are grouped together

At the beginning of each unit there is a list of key vocabulary, with simple definitions of

the words or phrases as they are used in the context of the theme These are chiefly

primary words, but occasionally secondary words are included to assist understanding

It is intended that the students should read and absorb this information before

proceeding to the four sets of exercises that follow, rather than simply using it to help

them answer the questions

in Book 1 and Book 2 the first exercise contains ten multiple-choice questions with

pictures to help the students select the correct answers The second exercise contains

five multiple-choice questions without picture clues The third and fourth exercises

are cloze passages with five blanks each For Exercise 3 the five missing words are

given, in random order, at the beginning; for Exercise 4 the students must provide the

answers themselves

The cloze passages are usually short narratives connected with the theme Some

of them also provide additional information about the subject, thereby enhancing the

learning experience

There is an answer key for all the exercises, so that they can be easily marked

by the teacher Note that the answers for the open cloze passage (Exercise 4)

are suggestions only individual students may come up with equally appropriate

alternatives, which must be deemed correct

high big from top to bottom

long big from end to end

a straight piece of plastic,

metal or wood that you use to

draw or measure things

shallow the opposite of deep

short small from end to end

shrank, shrunk)

to become smaller

size how big or small something is

small the opposite of big

tall (said of a person, tree or building)

big from top to bottom

Look at each picture and put a tick (⁄ ) in the correct box

The mouse hasa_ tai big

large long wide

James is than Sally

shorter thinner lower lighter

The stream was _ enough for

them to walk across

low

wide deep

shallow

Anna has hair

long small short thin

larger

width height

off the loaf

big heavy :

thick wide

Choose the correct answer for each blank and write its number

(1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided

2 Measure the line with a

3 Feathers are so

(1) light (2) heavy (3) small (4) thin

They float in the air

4 How

(1) tall (2) high (3) long (4) wide

, it might break

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There is a fish pond in our garden It is oblong in shape, about

not very 3)————, but we are not allowed

to play in it because of the fish There are six fish, two big ones

and four (4)_ _ - - ones

Around the edge of the

wall that we can sit on to watch them swimming around

Sometimes, when the weather is hot, we dip our feet in the

water to cool off The fish do not like this: they swim away and hide among the plants at the other end of the pond

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Fill each blank with the word(s) you think best

Uncle Tom is very

lift me up so that | could touch

it with the tips of my fingers He is my mother’s younger brother;

she is two years older than him, but much shorter She says they

fourteen and he was twelve, but then he

his feet, and his shirts and trousers looked as if they had

whole new set of clothes

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bend ' (bends, bending, bent, bent)

to move part of your body so that it is no longer straight, or

to lower your head

clap

to bring your hands together

with a loud noise

got up) to move from sitting or lying to standing

2 to make a sudden quick

movement of your body because you are scared

kneel (kneels, kneeling, knelt, knelt)

to bend your legs so that your knees touch the ground

to move along with quick steps

shake (shakes, shaking, shook, shaken)

4 to move your head from side

to side as a way of saying ‘No’

2 to take hold of someone's

hand and move it up and down when you meet them,

especially for the first time

to rest with your bottom on a chair or on the floor a

to move along by hopping on™

one foot'then on the other foot:

stand (stands, standing, stood, stood) ©

- to be on your feet.with your legs and body straight

it down in another place

2 to take a step or steps in ©

order to move along, up, down or over something

to raise your hand or arm and

move it from side to side or

backwards and forwards as a way of saying ‘Goodbye’ or to | make someone notice you |

Look at each picture and put a tick (/) in the correct box

Mrs Woods said ‘Hello’ and my father’s hand

shook

clapped held

waved

| down to polish the floor

stooped knelt bent crouched

Jack stretched bent turned nodded

Everyone danced

jumped

skipped hopped

We _—

-our parents

stood knelt crouched sat

his head in shame

to ithe disco music

behind the sofa, hiding from

The audience their hands at the end of the show

raised

shook

waved clapped

Anna lost her left shoe so she had to

along on her right foot

skip walk

jump

hop

Choose the correct answer for each blank and write its number (1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided

1 At our school the children _ when the principal

comes into their classroom

not get his shoes wet

(1) jumped (2) skipped (3) stepped (4) hopped

Tom was leaning forward with his elbows on the table, so his mother told him to

(1) sit down (2) sit up (3) stand up

My brother does not talk very much One day when | came

home from school he was watching TV ‘Lam going to have

a drink of cola,’ | said

‘Shall | get you one too?’

| fetched the drinks and

sat down beside him on

the sofa ‘What are you

watching?’ | asked He

(2)

his shoulders Whatever it was, it did not interest

‘| am going to the park Do you want to come?’ He (4)

his head ‘OK, | will go on my own, then,’ | said He (5)

goodbye

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early, but she began

The bus was very full, and Kate took the last empty seat

When an old man with a walking stick got on at the next

very much It is good to see that there are still some polite and

kind children in this town.’

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the way you are moving or

facing, or the way you have to

go to get to a particular place

into from the outside

off away or down from something

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out straight ahead

from the inside to the outside in the direction that you are

over

from one side to the other of

something that is in the way —

past

going in a straight line towards

something or someone and

in the direction that you are up

reading these words to a higher place

The bus turned

lights

left round along

right

Mr Lee walked passed

through into

past

Look at each picture and put a tick (/) in the correct box

the tree

the lake

— at the traffic

—— te shop

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The horse jumped the fence

across off over through

Jane climbed the ladder to

reach the cupboard

up over

down

on

The car drove _ the cliff

from into off down

across

up

Choose the correct answer for each blank and write its number

(1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided

1 Sam fell the stairs

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(1) straight ahead (2) backwards

(3) away

(4) forwards The swing moved

(1) on and off (2) up and down (3) to and fro

(4) in and out

We flew Singapore to Australia

(1) from (2) out of (3) across (4) past You are annoying me Please go

(1) away (2) back

(3) off

Yesterday my father and | went for a walk in the countryside

side My father looked at

the map to decide which

way to go next There

were two paths: one

the forest and

the shady path among the trees When we came (5)

the other side of the forest we were a long way from home, so

we stopped to rest for a while before going back

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Fill each blank with the word(s) you think best

Mrs Lee was lost, so she looked for someone who might be able to help:

her ‘Can you tell me _ the way to the station,

please?’ she asked a

reach the crossroads,’ he replied ‘Turn right and walk

keep following it until you come to a row of shops At the end

Station Road As you might guess, this leads to the station

Do you think you can remember all that?’ ‘I'll hope so!’ said

Mrs Lee

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bring

(brings, bringing, brought,

brought) to carry something

with you when you come here

to let go of something so that it

falls to the ground

(lays, laying, laid, laid)

to put something flat, such as

to make something go from

one place to another

(puts, putting, put, put)

to move something to a place

and leave it there

put down

to move something downwards

to a surface and let go of it

to move something from

side to side or backwards

roll

to make something round move

by turning over and over

shake (shakes, shaking, shook, shaken)

to move something from side

to side or up and down with short quick movements

stand

(stands, standing, stood, stood)

to put something tall, such as a lamp, on a surface

swing (swings, swinging, swung, swung) to make something move in a curve

take

_ (takes, taking, took, taken)

1 to carry something with you

when you go somewhere else

2 to move something from the place where it is

Look at each picture and put a tick (/) in the correct box

A crane is used to —_ heavy things

push

lift drop pull

swung pushed

rocked

The children _

put down carried

lifted

picked up

the blanket on the ground

the baby’s cradle

Kate broke it

the bowl on the floor and

dropped

put stood laid

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| was anything inside it

picked up shook

lifted

rocked

The phone rang while | was eating my dinner, so |

my chopsticks and went to answer it

When you skip, you

head and under your feet

the rope over your

all their strength they could

But there were some short

branches sticking out of the log, so they were only able to

(4)

it from side to side ‘I have a better idea,’ said one

of Jack’s friends ‘Instead of moving the log, we can (5)

our bikes and climb over it’ That was what they did

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Fill each blank with the word(s) you think best

‘Tomorrow is the last

day of term,’ said our teacher, ‘so you can

bedroom, trying to decide what to (2)

My favourite toy is a train set, but that was too big and heavy

to (3) | _ | also have a game of skittles

You stand them up at one end of the room and

them ail down In the end | chose my puppet You

(5) the strings attached to his arms and

legs to make him walk and dance

the opposite of after:

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near in a lower place

not far away

The dog is_ —

outside near below inside

A picture hung

above under

on upon

Joe hid

beside

by

behind after

Look at each picture and put a tick (“) in the correct box

her mother

the curtain

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beside

the table

They sheltered from the sun

a beach umbrella

among underneath beside around

Choose the correct answer for each blank and write its number

(1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided

1 Sam opened the box to find out what was

S comes (1) after (2) near

(3) behind

(4) before

T in the alphabet

(1) on

(2) upon

(3) after (4) at

Choose the correct word(s) from the box and write its letter in each blank

(A) inside (B) among (C) there

(D) here (E) under

CN ns ne SEES si etc ate emcee cori mat Sears rt erento te seer psa sem cetera tro

Billy was upset because he had lost his story book It should

have been (1) the other books in his bedroom, but it

not there either He went downstairs and looked

(4) | his schoolbag, but he could

not find the missing book

Billy’s mother was in the

dining room, laying the table for

dinner ‘Have you seen my story

book?’ he asked her She opened

the drawer where the table mats were kept and took out a

book ‘(5) it is,’ she said ‘You left it on the table after

breakfast, so | put it in the drawer with the other things.’

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