Grade: 8

English
Unit 1: A
World Website Project:
Assign: to Vocabular give a task or out someone in particular
group y
Appropriate: suitable for a particular
situation
Access: to get information, especially from a computer
Thoroughly: completely, carefully and in detail
Supervisor: a person who is in charge of an activity, a place or a group of people
Monitor: to regularly check something
Co-ordinate: to organize an activity so everyone works together
Conference: a meeting where people have discussions.
Essential: necessary or very important
Request: to answer or reply
Confusion: distraction
Deadline: a time limit
Zone: region or area
Encounter: to meet someone or find something unexpectedly
Maintenance: actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning
Available: obtainable
Back up: to copy data so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost
Go off: leave

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Promptly: soon and quickly
Launch: to start, release or bring into operation
Contact: communication
Perspective: point of view
Respond: reply
Words with suffixes –tion and –sion:
Emigration: the act of leaving your country to live somewhere else
Discussion: a conversation about something important
Composition: another word for an essay
Station: where you would go to catch a train
Possession: something that you own
Expressions:
Make the most of it: to use a good situation to get the best
Stick with it: to continue to use or do something
Do your own thing: do something that involves only yourself
Unit 2: We Love New York:
Fascinating: attractive and having attractive qualities
Prehistory: history before written records
Exhibits: public showings
Floor plan: a diagram showing the layout of a building
Billboards: large outdoor signs generally used for advertising
Vivid: clear
Sightseeing: the activity of going out looking at things (tourism)
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Create: to make, design or bring into existence
Convinced: believing, especially from evidence
Investigate: to use a book or a computer to find information
Make sure: to be certain that something is real
First in line: before anyone else
Predecessor: ancestor
Prerequisite: precondition or necessary
Prejudge: to judge someone or something in advance
Words with oi/oy
Moisture: very small drops or another liquid in the air, on the surface of
something or in a substance
Decoy: a person or thing is used for trapping or tricking someone into going
somewhere or doing something
Alloy: a metal made by combining two or more other metals
Coy: pretending to be shy
Envoy: an official who represents their government in another country

Phrasal verbs with ‘come’

Come from: to have as one’s place of birth or nationality/ to originate
Come across: to find something by chance or by accident
Come apart: separate into pieces
Come up: to appear unexpectedly
Come by: to manage to get