Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________

Year: _____________________

Vocabulary Exercise
wise foolish out of trouble to fish tricked

passing travellers wailed rest annoyed

tied howled price catch from a distance

pleaded approached insulted released bear

settle down kept surprised strange

settle down by himself.

1. After a few nights, he should learn how to _________________
wise
2. He was a brave soldier and a _________________ teacher.
approached the fence.
3. Curious about the great animal, Yully _________________
insulted
4. And I _________________ you by being so rude.
price
5. You had to pay the _________________ for it, and so did I.
kept
6. He _________________ out of trouble and for that John
his grades up and stayed _________________,
wanted to reward him.
bear
7. Within three years the plants will begin to spread and _________________ fruit.
pleaded
8. She seemed distressed and softly _________________, "Please?"
released
9. After he spent years in prison, he was _________________ last summer, in
California.
wailed
10. Somewhere a few blocks away, an ambulance _________________.
travellers now resumed their walk toward the cottage, which they
11. The _________________
presently reached.

Vocab exercise x 2, Read passage, do

comprehension, Summarize passage (writing) /
Grammar exercise
 Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________

Vocabulary Exercise
wise foolish out of trouble to fish tricked

passing travellers wailed rest annoyed

tied howled price catch from a distance

pleaded approached insulted released bear

settle down kept surprised strange

1. After a few nights, he should learn how to _________________ by himself.

2. He was a brave soldier and a _________________ teacher.
3. Curious about the great animal, Yully _________________ the fence.
4. And I _________________ you by being so rude.
5. You had to pay the _________________ for it, and so did I.
6. He _________________ his grades up and stayed _________________, and for that John
wanted to reward him.
7. Within three years the plants will begin to spread and _________________ fruit.
8. She seemed distressed and softly _________________, "Please?"
9. After he spent years in prison, he was _________________ last summer, in
California.
10. Somewhere a few blocks away, an ambulance _________________.
11. The _________________ now resumed their walk toward the cottage, which they
presently reached.
 Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
Match the word to its meaning
wise foolish out of trouble fish trick

pass travellers wail rest annoy

tied howl price catch from a distance

plead approach insult release bear

settle down keep surprise strange

1. showing pain or grief by long, loud cries - _________________

2. to beg earnestly - _________________
3. a cry of pain, anger, grief - _________________
4. to treat or speak to someone with great disrespect; hurting another person's
feelings - _________________
5. to produce or to come with something - _________________
6. silly; unwise - _________________
7. an action designed to outsmart or deceive someone - _________________
8. people who travel, especially to distant places. - _________________
9. to be set free, to be let loose - _________________
10. to establish a settled lifestyle - _________________
11. amazed by an event - _________________
 Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
Match the word to its meaning
wise foolish out of trouble fish trick

pass travellers wail rest annoy

tied howl price catch from a distance

plead approach insult release bear

settle down keep surprised strange

wail
1. showing pain or grief by long, loud cries - _________________
plead
2. to beg earnestly - _________________
howl
3. a cry of pain, anger, grief - _________________
4. to treat or speak to someone with great disrespect; hurting another person's
insult
feelings - _________________
bear
5. to produce or to come with something - _________________
foolish
6. silly; unwise - _________________
trick
7. an action designed to outsmart or deceive someone - _________________
travellers
8. people who travel, especially to distant places. - _________________
release
9. to be set free, to be let loose - _________________
settle down
10. to establish a settled lifestyle - _________________
surprised
11. amazed by an event - _________________
Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
Take home practice (Dictation for next lesson)
 Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
as although from on which

about before if out who

across for in to whom

Let me share with you. I have a friend, named Bruce, (1) _________________
must be the sweetest, shyest person in the world. He is (2)
_________________ forty years old, rather short and skinny, has a thin
moustache and even thinner hair on his head. (3) _________________ his
vision is not perfect, he wears poorly prescribed glasses which are too
big for his face. In order not to inconvenience anyone, he always walks
sideways. Instead of saying 'Excuse me', he prefers to glide by one side.
If the gap is so narrow that it will now allow him to pass, Bruce waits
patiently (4) _________________ the obstruction, be it animate or inanimate,
rational or irrational, to move by itself. Stray dogs and cats panic him,
and in order to avoid them, he constantly crosses from one side of a
road (5) _________________ the other.

He speaks (6) _________________ a very thin, subtle voice, so inaudible that

it is hard to tell if he is speaking at all. He has never interrupted anybody.
(7) _________________ the other hand, he can never manage more than two
words without somebody interrupting him. This does not seem to irritate
him; in fact, he actually appears to be happy to have been able to utter
just those two words.

Bruce is the oldest and the least important employee of a dismal

company that imports cloth. It operates (8) _________________ of a very
dark building with black-stained wooden floors situated in Alsina Street.
He goes to work dressed all in black, wearing a very old suit that shines
(9) _________________ age. He only owns one shirt (10) _________________ is the
one he wore for the first time on the day of his marriage. He also only
owns one tie so frayed and greasy that it looks more like a shoelace.
 Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
sweetest shyest moustache prescribed

glide obstruction animate rational

interrupted inaudible stray panic

1. containing the most sugar / used to describe a very
nice person - _________________
2. something that prevents someone from making
progress or moving forward - _________________
3. to move away from the place where you should be,
without purposefully intending to - _________________
4. based of reason or logic than emotions -
_________________
5. to say or do something that makes somebody stop
what they are saying or doing - _________________
6. that you cannot hear - _________________
7. a sudden feeling of great fear that cannot be
controlled and prevents you from thinking clearly -
_________________
8. to tell somebody to take a particular medicine or
have a particular treatment - _________________
9. a line of hair that a man allows to grow on his upper
lip - _________________
10. to make something more lively or full of energy -
_________________