ESL Vocabulary

Choose one or more of these to practice as a warm up!

Visual Vocabulary:
Picture Word Quiz!

General Level:
Vocabulary

Advanced Level:
Test your Language Skills!

ASSIGNMENT!

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Look at the Top 10 List, and create a top 10 list of your own using 10 words with definitions!

Harrison Bergeron English 10 Task

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1. Create a new Glog.

2. Refer to the short story. Your task is to create a web page for the Handicapper General.

3. Include the following using texts, images, and videos: a profile of the Handicapper General, the rules of society (give examples of some handicaps given in the story), the role of the H-G Men in society, the announcement (p. 61) of the dangerous criminal - Harrison Bergeron, the title of the story and author.

4. You may also include the short story trailer featured in the Videos of the Day!

SAT Vocab 3

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SAT Vocab 3

Match the correct word with the definition.
Name:

WORD LIST:
a. exodus b. renegade c. retribution d. scourge e. taciturn f. hurtle
g. agnostic h. caustic i. terse j. uncanny

1. A person or thing that causes great trouble or misfortune
   
2. to move or to fling swiftly and with great force
3. not fond of talking; usually silent
4. weird; strange; so keen or acute as to seem bizarre
5. one who deserts one side in favor of another; traitor; outlaw
6. biting; stingingly sharp or sarcastic
7. brief and to the point
8. something justly deserved, especially a punishment
9. one who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven
10. mass departure or emigration

The Comparative Essay

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Prepositions in the Room!

Write a letter to your friend and describe your favorite room!

1. Pick a room!

2. Letter Generator!

3. Prepositions List!

Vocab and Writing Assignment AP 10

http://quizlet.com/3962772/power-plus-for-the-new-sat-book-2-unit-3-flash-cards/

AP 10 - SAT Vocab 2

connive	v. to cooperate secretly in a wrongdoing
chutzpah	n. nerve; audacity
liege	n. a lord, master, or sovereign
odium	n. hatred
crass	adj. coarse; tasteless
hypercritical	adj. overcritical; too severe in judgment
fallacy	n. a mistaken notion; a misconception
befuddle complacent	v. to confuse; to perplex adj. self-satisfied, smug

pandemonium parsimonious	n. a wild disorder, noise, or confusion adj. excessively thrifty; stingy
verbose	adj. using more words than are needed; wordy
laudable	worthy of praise; commendable
indiscreet	adj. not wise or judicious; imprudent, as in speech or action
pique	v. to cause resentment; to provoke
linguistics	n. the scientific study of the structure, sounds, and meaning of language
plebeian	n. a commoner; one from the lower class
precocious	adj. showing early development, especially mental
predatory	adj. inclined to prey on others
prowess	adj. superior skill or ability
pugnacious	adj. eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome

Writer's Notes:
ww - wrong word - choose a different word
awk - awkward phrasing - change order of words
sp - spelling error
col - avoid colloqialisms (use of slang)
ro - run-on sentence (too long)
cs - comma splice (too many commas to connect ideas)
single underline - spelling
triple underline - capitalization error
slash - erase
frag - fragmented sentence or idea (incomplete)
^ - insert word
circled punctuation is wrong

AP Textbook resource

http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_guth_disclit_new/