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There are six words in the English
language with the letter combination "uu:
muumuu
vacuum
continuum
duumvirate
duumvir
residuum
Sentences to ponder...
Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.
A backward poet writes inverse.
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired.
What's the definition of a will? It's a dead giveaway.
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
You will be stuck with your debt if you don't budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted - It taint yours and it taint mine.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium
at large. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed
in the end.
Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
The two longest one-syllable words
in the English language are "screeched" and" strengths."
The word "queueing" is the only English
word with five consecutive vowels.
http://www.how-to-study.com/Building%20Vocabulary.htm
When authors write, they often include context
clues to the meaning of words they use. The context clue is
usually presented in the sentence or paragraph in which the word
occurs. There are six types of context clues.
1. Definition context clue.
The author includes a definition to help the reader understand the
meaning of a word.
2. Synonym context clue.
The author includes a synonym to help the reader understand the
meaning of a word.
3. Antonym context clue.
The author includes an antonym to help the reader understand the
meaning of a word.
4. Description context clue.
The author includes one or more descriptions to help the reader
understand the meaning of a word.
5. Summary context clue.
The author makes a number of statements that help the reader understand
the meaning of a word.
6. Visual context clue.
The author includes a picture, drawing, chart, graph, or other type
of visual to help the reader understand the meaning of a word.
Change
Word Meanings
plurals
comparatives
suffixes
verb endings
possessives
prefixes
Words
with multiple meanings
homophones
homographs
Words with same or different meanings
antonyms
synonyms
Shortened
words
contractions
abbreviations
Capitalization
Dictionary
Skills
Context
Clues
Origins
and derivations of words
Content
area words
Figurative
language
Animal
beaver
cat
chicken
cow
deer
dog
eagle
eel
elephant
fox
giraffe
goat
goose
hawk
horse
Offspring
kit
kitten
chick
calf
fawn
pup
puppy
eaglet
elver
calf
cub
kit
kid
gosling
eyas
foal
Animal
kangaroo lion otter oyster pig rabbit rhinoceros seal sheep' swan
tiger turkey whale wolf
Offspring
Joey cub whelp spat piglet,farrow,shoat bunny calf pup lamb cygnet
cub poult calf cub,whelp
Animal
badgers bears beavers bees buffalo cats chickens chicks cows dogs
ducks elephants elks fish foxes geese
Group Name
cete sloth colony swarm' gang clowder flock clutch herd pack brae,flock
herd gang school skulk flock,gaggle usually when grouped together
on water
Animal
goats hawks hogs horses kangaroos lions mallards monkeys patridges
peacocks pheasants pigs quails rabbits seals sheep turkeys whales
wolves
Group Name
flock cast drift herd troop,mob pride sord troop covey muster nide
drove,litter bevy colony pod drove,flock rafter gam,pod pack,rout
Cues That indicate a Change in
Ideas
Conversley
still
although
except
on the other hand
except
consequently
nevertheless
in spite of
yet
Cues that Identify Relationships
Time Relationships
first
then
last
after
finally
before
previously
finally
to begin with
later
at the same time
since
until now
next
before
meanwhile
soon
so far
Cues that indicate Space Relationships
here
far
above
across
there
near
beneath
close
away
under
Cues that signal Relationships between Ideas
Cues That indicate Intergrating Ideas
(transitional)
and
futhermore
moreover
after
similarly
another
however
thus
also
plus
besides
after that
likewise
for example
instead
when
in additon
otherwise
too
not only
at the same time
for instance
therefore
yet
Cues that indicate a final or a Concluding Idea
consequently
finally
by now
therefore
then
inconclusion
for this reason
If you can read this poem through, without pause,
then your grasp of English pronunciation is good indeed. To anyone
for whom English is a second language, I offer this poem along with
my sincerest sympathies.
--- James Beale
ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will
teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's
written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque
and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but
bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show,
poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter,
and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes,
and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude,
German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not
rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and
would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to
reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and
live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand,
and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer,
ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage,
foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost,
lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer
does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint,
pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic,
Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library,
heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches,
breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable,
unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait,
surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas,
alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine,
marine.
Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with
ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever,
fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm,
phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and
tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace,
gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough -- Though, through, plough, or
dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to
give up!!!
-- Author Unknown
Increase Vocabulary
Each synonym has a slight difference of meaning. Have students
write a sentence for each showing meaning.
Walk
amble ambulate lumber meander pace plod prance ramble saunter shuffle
stagger step stride stroll strut swagger totter trek trudge
Laugh cackle chortle chuckle crow giggle grin guffaw hoot how roar
smile snicker titter
Cry
bawl blubber howl moan sniffle snivel sob wail weep whimper whine
Sad
cheerless cresfallen dejected depressed despondent disheartened
dismal dispirited downcast downhearted forlorn joyless melancholy
miserable mournful pitiable sorrowful sorry unhappy woebegone woeful
wretched
Happy
blissful blithe cheerful delighted ecstatic elated exultant gay
glad gleeful jolly jovial joyful jubilant lighthearted mirthful
overjoyed sunny thrilled tickled
Games and Activities
http://www.proteacher.com/
Parts of Speech
Start the day with the following parts of speech recognition
activity: Write several sentences on sentence strips, one for each
table or group. Cut each sentence into separate words and have them
ready in a pile for each group before your kids come to class. Have
directions on the board for your students to form the words into
a sentence and then to separate words according to parts of speech
(i.e. noun, adjective, verb, etc.). You may want to have them put
a different color mark on the cards corresponding to the part of
speech.
Unscramble the Words
Make copies of this Word Jumble for your kids. They must unscramble
the letters to get the words and then place the numbered letters
in the boxes to form the final answer.
MadLibs
Give your students the chance to have fun while practicing parts
of speech. Using a Madlib book, retype the text of one of the excerpts
for best results, or just make copies of it. List the parts of speech
on an overhead transparency that correlate to those needed to complete
the Madlib. Have your students come up with the parts of speech.
When thay are finished they can get a copy of the story and fill
it in. Your kids will have a great time sharing these with each
other.
Words in a Word
Using this reproducible, write a long word that you have been studying
in the line provided. Make enough copies of these for your class.
Have your students find as many words as they can within that word.
You can make a rule that the words have to be atleast 3 letters
long for more practised students.
What's In a Name?
Have your kids find as many words as they can within their own first,
middle, and last names.
Rhyming Words
Have your students think of as many words as possible that rhyme
with "at." Or, choose any word you prefer.
Word Jumble
Bring in the Daily Jumble from your local newspaper as a quick way
to get the day started. This is also a good way to build vocabulary
skills.
What's in Millennium?
How many words can you make out of the word MILLENNIUM?
Opposites Attract
Create several 6x6 grids on paper. Write antonyms on the cards.
You'll need 16 sets of words. Cut these out and your students can
play an opposite matching game.
Verb Hunt
Have your students make a list of as many verbs that they can find
around the classroom. This is a great activity when students are
just beginning to learn about verbs and other parts of sentences.
You could also have them separate the different type of verbs (helping,
action, past, present, etc).
Cloze Procedure
Find an interesting short story from a magazine, or type up
the content of a short children's book. Form into a transparency.
Cover several of the words, and have students guess what the words
are. They may not get the exact words, but they should be able to
pick words that make sense. This is called the Cloze procedure.
It can test your students ability to use syntactic, semantic(meaning),
or schematic clues depending on the words you choose.
Context Clues
Have a few sentences written on the board that contain new vocabulary
words of which your students must deduce the meaning using context
clues. Here are some examples:
My friend John missed the bus the other day, so I told him I'd give
him a ride home on my handlebars. But Mrs. Smith, our teacher, said
that it was a precarious situation and it would be better if we
both walked home.
Rachel's parents wanted her to join the GATE program at school,
but she wasn't very zealous about the idea because she wanted to
stay with all of her friends at school.
Being one of the most expensive and gallant ships ever built, the
Titanic set out for its maiden voyage to the United States in splendor.
Boggle
Make a 5x5 grid on the chalkboard using either using a Boggle game
set or by simply generating letters yourself. Have the following
directions listed next to the game board so students can start as
soon as they enter the room: Make as many words as you can using
the game board. Start with any letter on the board to make your
word. Letters in the word must touch each other. You may not use
the same letter space twice in the same word. Each word must have
a minimum of three letters. Have fun!
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