AlHoda International School Pre-IG English Department

Cambridge Lower Secondary English 8 Year 8 (………) T2 2023/2024

Name: …………………….…………………………….. Book: Hodder / Language Skill : Writing
Date: ……………………... No.……… Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Science-Fiction Lesson: Vocabulary
L.O: To use vocabulary related to opinion article, in paragraph level context.

Chapter 1: Bring it to Life! Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Science-Fiction

Vocabulary List (13) SB
Extract: The Time Machine
 SB Pages 12-13 Online Dictionary Online Your Own Creation
thesaurus
Contextual sentence Focused word / Definition / Synonyms / Meaningful sentence
Word Class Meaning Antonyms
1. Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder over there, at a In instance
yonder table, with its may legs moving (adjective) distance Can you believe a bear
yonder hunt this rabbit ?
slowly and uncertainly, its big claws
swaying it long antennae?
2. Can you imagine a crab as large as Noun long whips used by Did you that the carter’s
yonder table, with its may legs moving people who drive whip is a long whips used
carts by people who drive carts
slowly and uncertainly, its big claws
swaying it long antennae, like carter’s
whip?
3. Its stalked eyes gleaming at you on Verb moved slowly and Creep I stalked to steel a pen for
either side of its metallic front? quietly in my sister
pursuit of
something
4. Its back was corrugated and ornamented Adjective having wavy ridges  corrugated cardbo
with ungainly bosses, and a greenish or ard
folds
incrustation blotched it here and there.

5. Its back was corrugated and ornamented Adjective raised areas (can Marry is your boss here
with ungainly bosses, and a greenish refer to on this project
leaders or
incrustation blotched it here and there.
prominent figures)

6. Its back was corrugated and ornamented Noun a hard layer The earth is made of
with ungainly bosses, and a greenish formed on incrustation were every
a surface by a layer have a different
incrustation blotched it here and there.
deposit function to do

7. Its back was corrugated and ornamented Adjective having irregular- This dog is blotched in
with ungainly bosses, and a greenish shaped black and white
marks or stains
incrustation blotched it here and there.

8. I could see the many palps of its Noun finger-like palps

complicated mouth flickering and feeling appendages on an
animal
as it moved.
9. As I stared at this sinister apparition Noun suggesting evil or This boy is sinister as he
crawling towards me. harm will kidnap you