Vocabulary
Workshop 1
New Americans
Vocabulary
Workshop 2
When Disaster Strikes
Potpourri
100
To share information.
What is communicate?
100
Some one Irene Rodriguez left behind.
Who is her grandmother?
100
Very bad or serious.
What is severe?
100
Justin Norris survived this after an electrical storm.
What is struck by lightening?
100
abandon, evacuate, leave
What are synonyms?
200
Immigrant
What is a person who moves from one country to another?
200
Irene's father's words words made her want to learn English fast.
What is to motivate.
200
Major.
What is very large or important?
200
A metallic tent.
Where did the firefighters hide from the fire?
200
then, next, before long
What are sequence words?
300
Policy.
What is a rule?
300
His mother wanted Freddy to do this before he became a professional soccer player.
What is get his education.
300
To pay close attention.
What is focus?
300
A sequence of events that repeats itself.
What is a cycle?
300
hurricanes, ice storms, forest fires, avalanches
What are natural disasters?
400
The present time.
What is currently?
400
Where most new immigrants to the United State now come from.
What is Asia and Latin America.
400
Degree.
What is a unit of measurement.
400
This major storm reached U.S. shores in September, 1999
What was Hurricane Floyd?
400
included, isolated
What are antonyms?
500
Income.
What is money you get from a job?
500
What all immigrants struggle with when they first come to America.
What is fitting in?
500
To leave behind.
What is abandon.?
500
Many people were urged to do this before Hurricane Floyd struck their city.
What is evacuate?
500
bang, splash, buzz, sizzle
What is onomatopoeia? (words that sound like the thing it stands for)