At home, maybe you have to clean all day- washing the dishes and cleaning the
floor with the vacuum. At your job, maybe you have to do boring, vacuous work
that is too easy and feels meaningless. Maybe you need to evacuate from your
apartment for a while, and take a vacation.
Before you depart on your vacation, you should learn about the locale that
you’re traveling to. Are there vacancies in the hotels and hostels, or are all of
the rooms full? Are the hotel’s lavatories clean? Are the locals good hosts? Will
the local food be ok for you to eat? Make sure the area is safe, too. If there is any
destruction there from a typhoon or flood, structures like hotels and hospitals
might not be safe, and you should relocate.
The most important thing is to have fun on your vacation. Enjoy a concert in an
auditorium. Go shopping in the clothing, sports, and furniture departments in a
department store. Look at the stars in the sky at a planetarium. Or just relax and
enjoy your hotel or resort’s hospitality.
Using context from the reading, what is a "vacuum"?
a) a type of job
b) a type of machine
c) a type of floor
d) a type of person
Using context from the reading, what is something that is “vacuous”?
a) empty
b) full
c) lazy
d) busy
Using context from the reading, what does "evacuate" probably mean?
a) like somewhere
b) not like somewhere
c) move somewhere
d) leave somewhere
Using context from the reading, what does it mean if a hotel has a "vacancy"?
a) it is popular
b) it has fun things to do
c) it has rooms available
d) it has cleaning services
Using context from the reading, what is a “lavatory”?
a) a place to use the bathroom
b) a place to do science experiments
c) a place to borrow books
d) a place to listen to music
What does "local" mean in this sentence?
“Are the locals good hosts?”
a) a place that people live in
b) a person who lives in a place
c) a place to have a good time
d) a person who is a good host
What does “local" mean in this sentence?
“Will the local food be ok for you to eat?”
a) something safe
b) something dangerous
c) something people eat
d) something in a specific area
Using context from the reading, what does "destruction" mean?
a) many broken things
b) many dangerous things
c) many hurt people
d) many dangerous people
Using context from the reading, what is a “structure”?
a) a disaster
b) a building
c) a room
d) an explanation
Using context from the reading, what does "relocate" mean?
a) look again
b) find a place
c) move to a different place
d) read again
Using context from the reading, what is an “auditorium”?
a) music
b) a music group
c) musical instruments
d) a place to listen to music
Using context from the reading, what is a “department”?
a) a section
b) a store
c) shopping
d) service
destruction
education
relocate
re-
-tion
communication
reconsider
convention
revise
rewrite
What part of speech are all of these words?
What meaning do you think this prefix has?
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What are other words that use this suffix?
What are other words that use this prefix?
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destroy
depart
instruction
dedepartment
include
in-
decrease
invite
increase
What meaning do you think this prefix has?
What meaning do you think this prefix has?
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What are other words that use this suffix?
What are other words that use this prefix?
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vacation
vacated
vac
evacuate
vacuum
Which word do you think is a noun for "A person who leaves a place in an emergency”?
a) evacuee
b) vacate
c) vacationer
d) vacuumist
hospitality
hospital
ho/hos/hosp
hostess
hotel
Which word do you think is an adjective for “A person who is friendly to guests”?
a) host
b) hospitality
c) hospitable
d) hospitalist
construct
instruct
stru/stro
destroy
instrument
Which word do you think is a verb for "Build something?"
a) instruct
b) destroy
c) structure
d) construct
particle
apartment
part
compartment
partner
Which word do you think is a verb that means, "Join other people to do something?"
a) depart
b) participate
c) partner
d) separation
museum
gymnasium
tory/torium/eum
dormitory
laboratory
Which word do you think means, “A place to look at fish and other water animals?”
a) crematorium
b) repository
c) observatory
d) aquarium
location
dislocate
loc
localize
local
Which word do you think means, "Find something?"
a) locate
b) location
c) locomotion
d) locally
Use the vocabulary from the word box to fill in the spaces in the questions below.
observatory
compartment
evacuee
dislocated
obstruct
inhospitable
The workers can’t build the house because a tree is ____________________ them.
My shoulder got ________________________ when I was playing baseball. I fell down,
and the bone moved into the wrong place.
There are several ________________________ in a car to put things. You can put your
coffee in this one, your parking pass in this one, and your papers in this one.
With the firefighters’ help, all the ____________________________ were safely away from
the fire in their apartment building.
The workers at this resort were so ___________________________. They didn’t even
smile or say hello to us.
You can see the DMZ and even some of Gaesong in North Korea if you go to the
Dora ____________________.
Discuss the following three questions with your partner or partners. During your
discussion, try to use some words that have Latin roots we have studied.
*Hints are under each discussion question.
1. What activities do you like to take part in?
(participate, partner)
2. Would you rather go to a museum, aquarium, or gymnasium?
3. Have you ever constructed something? Destroyed something?
(construct/construction/destroy/destruction)
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Write a paragraph answering the following question:
If you had to relocate, where would you go?
Write 5-10 sentences. Use relocate and other words with Latin roots, such as
location, locale, local, and locate.
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