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Vocabulary building
Instruction:
1. Read the text (A Brief History of Chocolate) and identify all the cognate words in the
reading, that is, all the words that are similar to the Spanish language. (0.5 points)
a. Chocolate
j. Vanilla.
b. Aspect.
k. Paraphernalia.
t. Version.
c. Bars.
l. Democratization.
u. Responsible.
d. Important.
m. European.
v. Company.
e. Modern.
n. Invented.
w. Production.
f. Europe.
o. Method.
x. Create.
g. Colonies.
p. Public.
y. Inventor.
h. Medicine.
q. popular.
z. Global.
i. Gallons.
r. Liquor.
aa. Billion.
2. Identify the keywords of the text. (0.5 points)
a. Chocolate.
b. Cacao beans.
c. Maya Mesoamerica
d. Aztecs.
e. Chocolate bar.
f. Milk chocolate bar.
g. Easter egg.
3. Read the text and identify five compound words.
a. Without.
Compound Word: Without (prefix + base word)
Prefix: With-
s. Tradition
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Definition of the compound word: not having or doing something or lacking
something.
b. Fashionable.
Compound Word: Fashionable (base word + affix).
Affix: -able
Definition of the compound word: popular at a particular time.
c. Misspelled.
Compound Word: Misspelled (prefix + base word).
Prefix: MissDefinition of the compound word: to spell a word the wrong way.
d. Mass-produced.
Compound Word: Mass-produced (Hyphen)
Definition of the compound word: To produce goods in large quantities.
e. Upper-class.
Compound Word: Upper-class (hyphen).
Definition of the compound word: The group of people who have the highest
position and the most social and economic influence in a society.
4. Identify in the text (five examples) of the words that have been explained, defined, or
exemplified. Use of contextual clues. Follow the example: (1 point)
Sentence: word in context
Contextual
clue
Others think chocolate comes from the Aztec word
‘choqui’, which means warmth.
Function
The use of mean to express
mean
the definition of the word
‘choqui’ in English.
The Aztec word for the bitter drink is ‘xocolatl’
which some think the modern word chocolate
comes from.
The use the verb ‘is’ to
is
define what is the word in
English for xocolatl’.
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Some called this the democratization of chocolate.
called
We have the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica (which
was made up of countries in what we now know as
Central America, and southern Mexico) to thank for
The use of ‘called’ to
introduce a synonym.
The use of parenthesis is
()
for explain further where
Mesoamerica was located.
chocolate.
The use of a dash (-) as a
Chocolate was ‘the’ drink of the European
aristocracies - no upper-class home was complete
without chocolate making and drinking
paraphernalia.
-
way of explaining the
importance of chocolate for
the aristocrats.
5. Create a cluster organizer to map the information of the text. Do not use Word to create
organizer maps; this is a word processor not a maker of graphic organizers. Please use
the program suggested or one similar. (2.0 point)