Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 13

This week's theme is: Earthquake effects

Word List 13

1. refuge: A place that provides safety and shelter.
2. salvage: Saving damaged materials
3. predicament: A situation that is hard to fix.
4. terrain: An area of land or region.
5. deteriorate: To become worth less value, to destruct.
6. retrieve: To get back, to find and bring back.
7. contaminate: To make unclean.

Friday Activities

1. Have some fun with your brain. Use this site to play games, but you can also create your own matching games. Click on the FAQ at the top and read how to create your own games to share with others!
2. Create your own crossword puzzle. Click on this link and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your words and your clues (definition), then click "Create Crossword Now." A new web page will appear. You can put a title on your puzzle if you wish, then click "Create Crossword." Print this out and complete the puzzle. Insert the completed work in your vocabulary notebook.
3. Use this site, Vocaroo to help you practice pronouncing your words. Just click on the button that says Click to Record and start talking! When you finish, click the stop button. Click on Listen to hear what you recorded.

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:

With her house destroyed, she took refuge with her aunt and uncle.
During the earthquake, Clara's only refuge was in the streets away from the building.

The only thing to do was to salvage the furniture as much as possible.
She did not want to go inside but she had to salvage her belongings.

What a horrible predicament to be in.
She must now face this predicament that could prove to be very dangerous.

They had to pick their way carefully through the icy river and frozen terrain.
I walked cautiously to my house, with its uneven terrain and various hazards.

Things are going to further deteriorate before things start to stabilize.
As the aftershock hit, we watched the situation deteriorate.

She reached down to retrieve the flashlight in her belt before going inside.
She wanted to return to her home to retrieve her belongings.

Bacteria can can easily contaminate the food left out.
These living conditions could could contaminate the lake.

 
 

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