Grade 1-2: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 12

This week's theme is: Soccer

Word List 12

1. team: A group of players working together, forming one of the sides in a sporting contest
2. award: Something given for victory or being the best in a contest or competition.
3. bounce: To hit a solid surface and spring back.
4. career: A job that you chose to do for a long time for which you are trained.

Monday Activities

1. Write the words and definitions in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Create your own sentence using each word and write this in your vocabulary notebook. We have provided samples below to get you started.
3. Use this site, How do you say to help you pronounce words you do not know. Just type the word into the white space and click on Submit. Soon you will hear the word.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

I hope our team wins.
The red team has very good players.

The red team won an award for making the most points.
The winners received an award trophy.

We need more air in the ball to make it bounce higher.
He bounced the soccer ball off his head and into the goal.

His chosen career was playing soccer.
Since hurting his knee, he knew a career in soccer was not possible.

 
 

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