Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 1

This week's theme is: Vacation

Word List 1

1. beverage: A liquid for drinking, usually not water
2. companion: A person that goes along with or accompanies another person
3. navigate: To chart the way to a particular place while in a vehicle
4. bazaar: A group of outdoor shops where many different things are sold.
5. currency: The type of money used in a country for purchasing items.
6. apprehensive: Afraid of the future or what may be coming
7. omniscient: knowing and understanding everything

Monday Activities

1. Make a Summer Vocabulary Notebook. Each week you will write the words in your notebook. Beside each word write the definition given. Write your own synonyms and the definition in your own words beside the word.
2. Practice saying your words to make sure you are pronouncing them correctly. 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.
3. As you read books over the summer, use your vocabulary notebook to write down words you would like to learn more about or words you do not know the meaning of. Make flashcards for these words and include them in your summer vocabulary learning flashcards

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 have a beverage with my meal.
The restaurant had a large selection of beverages.

My companion and I traveled to Australia.
My mom said I was too young to go shopping by myself so she hired a companion to go with me.

While in Australia, I navigated our trip to the museum.
The plane was navigated by the caption.

I found the glass bowl at a bazaar.
At the bazaar, I stopped in the booth that had fruit for sale.

The currency of this country is the rupee.
I had to exchange my money for this country's currency.

I was apprehensive of leaving the United States.
My parents were apprehensive about vacationing in a foreign country.

She got so many answers right, she must be omniscient.
The guide thought he was omniscient, but he wasn't.

 
 

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