Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 13

This week's theme is: American Idol

Word List 13

1. ability: Being able to do something, an acquired or natural skill.
2. ambition: Having a strong longing to succeed.
3. struggle: A hard effort to give the best you can.
4. fierce: A strong effort to win.
5. perform: To present a song or a play for an audience.

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:

Being nervous could affect your ability to do your best.
He was confident in his ability to sing.

She has the ambition to go far with her talent.
Seeing others succeed makes his ambition stronger.

Sometimes you must struggle to learn the new skill.
Even though she has taken dance for years, she still struggles to learn difficult steps.

There is always fierce competition.
She has the fierce determination to win.

She knew she would have to perform her best to win.
Sometimes he is nervous when he performs.

 
 

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