BOSTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

NIT 900.258.868-9. RESOLUCIÓN 04613 DE 2010 COD: B.I.S – ACAD:V.L

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Weekly activities
1. Weekly dictations: They will be graded in the kids’ notebook as extra points,
parents should sign the results. Words will be dictated, students will write
them and also create a sentence with each one, in another occasion they will
be given the definition of the word for them to write the correct word.
2. Weekly Bulletin board: It will be updated every Monday to show the words
of the week.
3. Dialogues: students will act out dialogues using the words or phrases
4. Blogs: All the information will be posted in the blog of the grade.
5. Play games with the vocabulary at:

https://www.spellingcity.com/users/MrYairHerreraF

 Link for proverbs:

http://www.manythings.org/proverbs/?_ga=2.193938094.228441946.153910
0822-1016633192.1539100822
 http://www.manythings.org/o/proverbs.html
 https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html

Extra list
1. Tattletale
2. In a blink of an eye
3. By the skin of one’s teeth
4. Barking up the wrong tree
5. What is it to you?
6. Beat around the bush
7. Sell someone short
8. Window shopping
9. Best thing since sliced bread
10. What’s the catch?
11. Drive bananas
12. Can't judge a book by its cover
13. Costs an arm and a leg
14. Cross that bridge when you come to it
15. Feasible
16. Blessing in disguise

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Week 1

1. a rapid rise phrase

2. a steady shift phrase

3. acquire a language phrase

4. acquisition noun

5. attain a level / degree of competence phrase

6. barely perceptible phrase

7. be on the way out phrase

8. brush up (one’s French / German, etc) verb

9. capability noun

10. competence noun

11. dedication noun

12. discipline noun

13. distraction noun

14. entirely unnoticed phrase

15. exposure noun

16. get accustomed to sth phrase

Week 2

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1. get to grips with sth phrase

2. gradually give way to sth phrase

3. grasp verb

4. grow substantially phrase

5. have an ear for sth phrase

6. hold a conversation phrase

7. hugely significant phrase

8. immerse oneself in sth phrase

9. insight noun

10. interaction noun

11. interference noun

12. keep at it phrase

13. lasting adj

14. limitation noun

15. literacy noun

16. mentality noun

Week 3

1. motivation noun

2. necessity noun

3. on the increase phrase

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4. ongoing adj

5. pick up (a new language, phrases, etc) verb

6. prestige noun
7. put sth into practice phrase

8. reluctance noun

9. rusty adj

10. struggle (with sth) verb

11. subtle adj

12. take hold phrase

13. bombard sb with sth verb

14. bring out sth (in sb) verb

15. come across (to sb) verb

16. crawl verb

Week 4
1. creep verb

2. cut oneself off verb

3. drift verb

4. fit in verb

5. go on about sth verb

6. hold oneself back verb

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7. hurtle verb

8. leap verb

9. limp verb

10. march verb

11. plunge verb

12. relate to sb verb

13. roll verb

14. run sb down verb

15. rush verb

16. slide verb

Week 5

1. slip out verb

2. soar verb

3. stagger verb

4. stroll verb

5. whirl verb

6. whizz verb

7. whoosh verb

8. zoom verb

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9. a tropical paradise phrase

10. affluent adj

11. arid desert phrase

12. bog noun

13. calm turquoise waters phrase

14. dark pools of stagnant water phrase

15. dense adj

16. deprived adj

Week 6

1. destitute adj

2. disposable income phrase

3. empty moorland phrase

4. foothills plural
noun
5. forest canopy phrase

6. hardship noun

7. huge sand dunes phrase

8. impoverished adj

9. jungle noun

10. live within one's means phrase

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11. make ends meet phrase

12. marsh noun

13. mosquito-infested swamp phrase

14. pristine beaches phrase

15. prosperity noun

16. rainforest noun

Week 7
1. remote adj

2. rich green meadow phrase

3. rocky ground phrase

4. rugged coastline phrase

5. sheer cliffs phrase

6. the heart of (the rainforest, phrase

capital, jungle, etc)

7. the mouth of a cave phrase

8. tropical adj

9. undergrowth noun

10. untouched adj

11. vegetation noun

12. well-off adj

13. wilderness noun

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14. wooded slopes phrase

Week 8 (IELTS C1 preparation kit – prepare the pronunciation at www.wordreference.com

and present it to class)

1. Stationery is writing paper.

2. Stimulus is something that incites to action or exertion.
3. Strait is a narrow passage of water between 2 larger bodies of water.
4. Straitjacket is a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms.
5. Stroganoff is a dish of meet sauteed with onions and cooked in a sauce of sour
cream.
6. Suave is smoothly agreeable or polite.
7. Subpoena is the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses.
8. Subtle is thin, tenuous or delicate in meaning.
9. Succinct means expressed in few words, concise, terse.
10. Sufficiency is adequacy.
11. Suite is a number of things forming a set.
12. Supersede is to replace in power, or acceptance.
13. Supposition is something that is supposed; assumption.
14. Surety is security against loss or damage.
15. Surrey is a light carriage for four persons.

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