Gerunds/ Infinitives
Key Words
Academic Words
From An Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
The Marble Champ
100
Ted was surprised _____________ (see) his computer acting strangely.
What is "to see"?
100
Related to a particular society and its way of life (arts, language, etc.).
What is cultural?
100
Light and easy to carry.
What is portable?
100
Naomi Shihab Nye attended high school here.
What is Jerusalem?
100
Person who has won a competition.
What is champion?
200
Ted was angry ___________________ (find) virus-like activity on his computer.
What is "to find"?
200
Continue doing an activity or trying to achieve something.
What is persist?
200
Made of many people from different countries, races, etc.
What is multicultural?
200
This is Naomi Shihab Nye´s number one piece of advice to young writers.
What is read?
200
Fascinating.
What is hypnotic?
300
Ted was upset ___________________________ (watch) the destruction of all his work files.
What is "to watch"?
300
It means saying something again and again.
What is repeat?
300
Someone who writes essays about a particular subject.
What is essayist?
300
This is the age when Naomi Shihab Nye published her first poem.
What is seven years old?
300
Correct or exact.
What is accurate?
400
Ted was relieved _________________________ (discover) some of his work backed-up and saved on another drive.
What is "to discover"?
400
Clearly making a person or thing as different from others.
What is distinguish?
400
Way of seeing something.
What is perspective?
400
These are the three places where Naomi Shihab Nye lived.
What are St. Louis, Missouri; Jerusalem; and San Antonio, Texas?
400
Complained angrily.
What is fumed?
500
Ted was delighted __________(spend) the weekend relaxing while his computer was in the repair shop.
What is "to spend"?
500
A group of lines in a poem.
What is stanza?
500
Things that have an effect on people or things.
What is influences?
500
These were three things Naomi Shihab Nye wrote about when she was a child.
What were animals, friends, and family?
500
Searched for something by moving things around.
What is rummaged?
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