Vocabulary and grammar

Vocabulary 1

100

Vocabulary:

This spelling word means "having an offensive smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition"

What is rancid?

200

This spelling word means "to die from being unable to breathe."

What is suffocate?

300

Vocabulary:

the bones that cover the organs in the chest

What are the ribs?

400

This spelling word means "a modified revival of a Panhellenic festival originating in Athens in 1896, held once every four years, and consisting of international athletic contests" 

What are the Olympics?

500

This spelling word means "a person whose job is to prepare and serve coffee or similar drinks (such as espresso)"

What is a barista?

Grammar 1

100

Grammar:

My new bike was hard to ride at first, but I was/ got /get used to it quite quickly.

got

200

Grammar:

While I had played / played / was playing videogames, I heard a big crack of thunder.

was playing

300

Grammar:

I’ll have / am having a lemonade and a chicken wrap, please.

have

400

Grammar:

I suddenly noticed that everyone_________ (look) at me.

was looking

500

Grammar:

The boy (walk, walked, walking, was walking) in the park with his dog.

What "was walking?"

Vocabulary 2

100

This spelling word means "intense, turbulent, or furious action, force, or feeling; often destructive"

What is violent?

200

This spelling word means "produced by humans and intended to imitate something in nature: simulated"

What is artificial?

300

This spelling word means "one duly authorized to treat disease: a doctor of medicine"

What is physician?

400

This spelling word means "persons held in custody for political reasons"

What are detainees?

500

This spelling word means "one who manipulates small-scale figures of humans or other living beings" 

What is a puppeteer? 

Grammar 2

100

Grammar:

 We ______________ (come) to live in New York!

are coming

200

Grammar:

My Dutch isn’t great, but I_________ (learn) a lot of new words.

have learnt / have learned

300

Grammar:

How are you? I_________ (be) here in Holland for three weeks now.

have been 

400

Grammar:

The party______________next Friday at eight.

is 

500

Grammar:

We can’t wait until tomorrow. The tickets________out by then. (sell out)

will have sold

Surprise

100

This shape has six sides. 

What is a hexagon?

200

This season comes after winter. 

What is spring? 

300

This is the male of a chicken.

What is a rooster?

400

This continent contains Uganda, Cameroon, and Ivory Coast.

What is Africa?

500

The Union was fighting against them during the Civil War.

What is the Confederacy?