Welcome to a new week
1. Get out your goal sheet, review and record how you did last week. Create
a new goal and have it do with your vocabulary note cards.
2. Label a new sheet of paper “Warm Ups Unit #2”
3. Complete the following exercises:
Review for Unit #1
Word Association – Choose the words that best describe each phrase.
1. Which of the following is something many people would probably abhor?
a. ice cream
b. music
c. sunshine
d. snakebites
2. Who would be least likely to abdicate something?
a. a king
b. a president
c. a homeless bum
d. a dictator
3. Which of the following would be closely connected with addiction?
a. nicotine gum
b. newspapers
c. pencil sharpeners
d. bottled water
4. Which of the following would not be considered abject?
a. a liar
b. a pretty girl
c. a thief
c. a bully
5.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of these people would absolve someone?
a janitor
a lawyer
a ditch digger
a Burger King manager
Vocabulary #2, Exercise #1
In each of the following groups, select the item that best expresses the meaning
of the italicized word in the introductory phrase.
1. adjourned the meeting promptly at three o’clock
a. planned
b. opened
c. suspended
d. attended
2. very agile for her age
a. ignorant
c. popular
d. spry
c. supported
d. ignored
b. clumsy
3. advocated changes in the tax laws
a. considered
b. rejected
4. came from a very affluent family
a. obscure
b. poverty-stricken c. brilliant
d. wealthy
5. the aggregate opinion of the jury
a. collective
b. informed
d. mistaken
c. far-reaching
Grammar Exercise #4
Each of the following sentences contains words of the kind specified before the
sentence. Fine these words and write them on your paper.
1. pronouns You can prove to yourselves how blind we can be to our
surroundings.
2. verbs A typical center contains acres of parking spaces and scores of stores
where one can buy almost anything.
Vocabulary #2, Exercise #2
Complete each of the following sentences by selecting the most appropriate word
from the group of words below.
aesthetic
advocate
agenda
affectation
adverse
affable
1. We are determined to succeed in spite of all the ______________ conditions
affecting this project.
2. The first item on the _____________ at the convention was the selection of a
temporary chairman.
3. Our personnel manager is a very _____________ woman, whose friendly,
informal manner immediately puts a person at ease.
4. While the Romans were essentially practical in their approach to building
design, the Greeks were deeply concerned with beauty for its own sake and
worked hard to produce structures of high ___________ appeal.
5. Throwing obscure French expressions into the middle of an English sentence
just to show that you’ve been to Paris is an __________ that really irritates me.
Grammar Exercise #5
Each of the following sentences contains words of the kind specified before the
sentence. Fine these words and write them on your paper.
1. adverbs The students were instructed to work quietly after the exam.
2. prepositions Last week, we traveled over the river, through the woods and
between two mountains to our cabin in the woods.
Vocabulary #2, Exercise #3
Match each word in Column A with its synonym in Column B. Be sure to
include the vocabulary word that matches the synonym.
Column A
Column B
1. adjourn
a. amiable
2. agile
b. consolidate
3. affluent
c. pretense
4. affectation
d. conclude
5. aggregate
e. luxurious
6. affable
f. spry
Grammar #6
Read the following passage and determine the part of speech for each italicized
word.
There are various ways we can look at the grammar of a language. One
analogy might be the rules of such a game as chess. The basic rules of chess
are quite simple. There are only six kinds of pieces, and each of which has the
privilege of moving in a particular way.