BOSTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

NIT 900.258.868-9. RESOLUCIÓN 04613 DE 2010 COD: B.I.S – ACAD:V.L

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Weekly activities
1. Weekly dictations: They will be graded in the kids’ notebook as extra points,
parents should sign the results. Words will be dictated, students will write
them and also create a sentence with each one, in another occasion they will
be given the definition of the word for them to write the correct word.
2. Weekly Bulletin board: It will be updated every Monday to show the words
of the week.
3. Dialogues: students will act out dialogues using the words or phrases
4. Blogs: All the information will be posted in the blog of the grade.
5. Play games with the vocabulary at:

https://www.spellingcity.com/users/MrYairHerreraF

Instructions: look up the definitions and a synonym, write them in your notebook
afterwards
Link for idioms: https://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-idioms/

Week 1

1. ambitious adjective

2. arrogant adjective

3. determined adjective

4. give sth up verb

5. have a go at phrase

6. inspiring adjective

7. keep it up phrase

8. keep to sth verb

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9. loyal adjective

10. make an phrase

effort

11. manage verb

12. motivated adjective

13. naive adjective

14. optimistic adjective

15. passionate adjective

16. respected adjective

Week 2

1. self-confident adjective

2. sensitive adjective

3. stubborn adjective

4. successfully adverb

5. try sth out verb

6. work out verb

7. at risk phrase

8. attack verb

9. boot noun

10. can't get over sth phrase

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11. creature noun

12. endangered adj

13. environment noun

14. extinct adjective

15. forest noun

16. get a bit carried away phrase

Week 3

1. get away verb

2. get hold of sth phrase

3. get into trouble phrase

4. get involved phrase

5. get on sb's nerves phrase

6. get over sth verb

7. get rid of sb phrase

8. get sb down verb

9. get sb's attention phrase

10. get sth across to sb verb

11. get straight to the phrase

point

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12. get swept away phrase

13. get the feeling phrase

14. get through sth verb

15. get to do sth verb

16. habitat noun

Week 4

1. hunt verb

2. hut noun

3. kill verb
4. mattress noun

5. natural adjective

6. not get phrase

anywhere
7. protected adjective

8. rare adjective

9. shoot verb

10. species noun

11. tiger noun

12. wound verb

13. ability noun

14. able adjective

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15. athlete noun

16. athletic adjective

Week 5

1. athletics noun

2. award verb

3. brilliance noun
4. brilliant adjective

5. champion noun

6. championship noun

7. cheer verb

8. compete verb

9. competition noun

10. competitive adjective

11. competitor noun

12. exceptional adjective

13. lead verb

14. outstanding adjective

15. perform verb

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16. performance noun

Week 6

1. performer noun

2. pitch noun

3. potential noun

4. profession noun

5. professional adjective

6. referee noun

7. represent verb

8. skilled adjective

9. spectator noun

10. successful adjective

11. talent noun

12. talented adjective

13. train verb

14. trainer noun

15. training noun

16. victor noun

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Week 7 (IELTS C1 preparation kit – prepare the pronunciation

at www.wordreference.com and present it to class)
1. Cantankerous is disagreeable to deal with.
2. Cardiopulmonary pertaining to the heart and lungs.
3. Carnivorous means flesh-eating.
4. Catastrophe is a sudden and widespread disaster.
5. Celerity is swiftness, speed.
6. Censer a container in which incense is burned.
7. Changeable is liable to change or to be changed.
8. Chaparral is a dense growth of shrubs or trees (southwest).
9. Extemporaneous is done without special preparation.
10. Facsimile is an exact copy.
11. Fallacious means logically unsound.
12. Fascinate is to attract and hold attentively.
13. Fauna are the animals of a region considered as a whole.
14. Flocculent is like a clump of wool.
15. Foliage is the leaves of a plant.
16. Forage is food for cattle or horses.

Week 8 (IELTS C1 preparation kit – prepare the pronunciation

at www.wordreference.com and present it to class)
1. Surrogate is a person appointed to act for another; a deputy.
2. Surveillance is a watch kept over a person or group.
3. Swerve is to turn aside abruptly.
4. Symposium is a meeting to discuss some subject.
5. Synod is an assembly of church delegates.
6. Synonym is a word having nearly the same meaning as another.
7. Syntax is the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical
sentences in a language.
8. Tabernacle is a place or house of worship.
9. Tableau is a picture of a scene.
10. Tabular means arranged into a table.
11. Tachometer is a machine to measure velocity or speed.
12. Tacky is not tasteful or fashionable.
13. Tact is a sense of what to say without raising offense.
14. Taffy is a chewy candy.
15. Tail is the hindmost part of an animal.

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