Use these word in a sentence for each word

Junior year, English class, terrible teacher. The kind that makes test questions with multiple correct answers, the kind that grades your essays on whether she agrees with you or not.

Prelude 1: Write a short story using the vocabulary words. I did, and she said it «wasn’t creative enough.» WTF, lady? It’s a vocabulary exercise. You are literally determining the content of the story for me.

Prelude 2: Write an essay about what we learned from Insert Class Project Here. You know the kind — where 1 person does the work and everyone else gets the grade. So I wrote in the essay that I learned that other people are unreliable and I should cover my own ass. Got an F — apparently I wasn’t supposed to learn that.

The Main Event: Another vocabulary assignment, this one is the ever useless «Use these words in a sentence» assignment. I was tired of this teacher and her habit of giving meaningless assignments and then holding you accountable when you failed to meet her unstated pre-conceptions of what it was. You know where this is going.

I took the assignment literally, and used all 10 words in a sentence. A sentence. As in, one sentence. It was a grand sentence, grammatically correct to the best of my ability. Naturally, I no longer remember it, but it involved many commas, several parentheticals, and at least one semicolon. It wasn’t pretty, but it was in fact grammatically correct. Well mostly. It was certainly a bit of a run-on. I turn it in. Hahaha.

«What is this? This isn’t what I asked for.» Actually it literally is. You’d think an English teacher would understand English. «This is stupid and insulting. Do it again, but use a separate sentence for each word this time.»

Let the games begin. Class wasn’t over, but almost, so whatever I did, it had to be fast. I decided to make it as simple as possible: I would use each word in it’s own separate sentence, but each one would the simplest sentence possible that both used the vocabulary word, and was about a boat.

It was beautiful. If the word was an adjective, it describes the boat. «The boat was vainglorious.» If it was a noun, it was in the boat. «The decanter was in the boat.» If it was a verb, the boat was doing it. «The boat was levitating.» If it was an adverb? Again with the boat. «The boat was floating vicariously.»

Turned it in at the last possible minute. Made it to the door before I hear the outburst «You can’t be serious!» Got a 0 on the assignment, was reassigned as homework. Never did do it. Not long after that, I got my GED, but my parents wanted me to finish the school year. I set to work failing the class — and by failing, I mean getting an absolute 0. Even the worst student will, by random chance, occasionally get questions right. Getting an absolute 0 means knowing the correct answer and deliberately never giving it. You want to know what insulting is, teacher? Insulting is knowing that your student could be getting a perfect grade, but is choosing not to.

Obviously I got an «F» in that class. Of my high school career, it’s the grade I’m most proud of. Went on an started at college the next year. They accepted my GED and never even asked to see my old grades.

Популярное на сайте:

Как быстро выучить стихотворение наизусть? Запоминание стихов является стандартным заданием во многих школах. 

Как научится читать по диагонали? Скорость чтения зависит от скорости восприятия каждого отдельного слова в тексте. 

Как быстро и эффективно исправить почерк?  Люди часто предполагают, что каллиграфия и почерк являются синонимами, но это не так.

Как научится говорить грамотно и правильно? Общение на хорошем, уверенном и естественном русском языке является достижимой целью. 

long
nails bad skin

big
feet thin legs

lovely
complexion long legs

1.
Are these your shoes? You’ve got really ________, haven’t you?
2. You’ve got such _______.Would you like to move the seat back a
bit? 3. I’ve never seen you in shorts before. You’ve got such
_______. You should go running and try to build them up a bit! 4.
You’ve got such lovely ______. Are they real? 5. Keith’s new
girlfriend must spend a fortune on face cream to have such a
_______. 6. Poor Tim. He’s had really _______ ever since he was
13.

VI. Complete the sentences in a suitable way. (More than one answer may be possible.)

1.
She’s got blonde______ . 2. He’s got very pale______ . 3.
They’ve both got curly ______ .

4.
I’m medium ______ . 5. Her brother has got very broad ______ . 6.
He’s got a ruddy _____ . 7. She’s very good- _______ . 8. All
of them have got dark ______ . 9. She had an oriental ______ . 10.
His wife is a lovely woman in her ______ . 11. She is olive- _______
.

VII. Match the sentences on the right with those on the left.

1.
She is not so slender a) Her cheeks
are ruddy and fair

as she used to be. in colour.

2.
His hair is not so thick as b) She looked
pale and thin.

it was in his youth.

3.
My mother doesn’t look c) She put it in a
bun.

her age.

4.
She is not so beautiful as d) His hair is
thinning.

she was as a young girl.

5.
There is little hair left on e) She has put
on weight.

his head.

6.
She looks the very picture f) She looks much
younger.

of health.

7.
I could hardly recognise g) He is getting
bald.

Jane when I ran into her

in the street.

8
She didn’t wear her hair h) She looks
quite plain now.

loose any more.

EYES

big/large/small

kind/warm

blue/grey/green

brown/hazel

close-set/deep-set

bulging/almond/oriental

cross-eyed

long/
thick/curving eyelashes

thin/thick/bushy/arched
eyebrows

Vocabulary notes

warm adj kind
and friendly in a way that makes other people feel comfortable, e.g.
warm eyes/ a warm voice/ a warm smile. Ant.
cold

hazel adj
greenish-brown in colour

close-set
adj near to each other, e.g. close-set eyes/ close-set teeth

deep-set eyes
seem to be a long way back into your
face

bulging
adj sticking out in a round shape, e.g. His eyes were bulging wide
with fear.

almond
eyes are brown in colour and shaped like almonds (= flat pale nuts
with brown skin that taste sweet)

oriental
eyes are the kind of eyes that people from the eastern part of the
world have, especially people from China or Japan

cross-eyed
adj ( used of a person) having eyes that look towards each other

eyelash
n [ C usually plural] one of the hairs along the upper and lower
edges of your eyes, e.g. She was wearing false eyelashes.

curving adj
bending like part of a circle, e.g. She had beautiful long curving
eyelashes. Ant.straight

eyebrow
n [C] the line of hairs above your eye, e.g. She raised her eyebrows
in surprise.

bushy
adj bushy hair or fur grows thickly, e.g. bushy eyebrows/ a bushy
beard/ a bushy tail

arched
adj forming a curved shape, e.g. an arched window/ arched eyebrows

TEETH

large/small

even/uneven

close-set/sparse

false

Соседние файлы в предмете [НЕСОРТИРОВАННОЕ]

• #
• #
• #
• #
• #
• #
• #
• #
• #
• #
• #