• VOCABULARY WORDS    UNIT 1
     
    Lesson 1 - The Class President
    Election: how people vote for someone to serve in an office or approve an idea

     

    Campaign: an organized effort to accomplish a purpose

     

    Represent: to speak or act for someone else

     

    Candidate: person who is seeking an office, job, or position

     

    Confidences: a belief in one’s ability to do something

     

     
    Lesson 2 - Marble Champ

    contest:  a competition

     

    athletic: having skill and strength in sports and other physical activities

     

    match: contest, competition, or race

     

    energy: what makes someone active in work and at play

     

    players: people who take part and play against each other in matches

     

    commotion: noise excitement

     

    Lesson 3 - Juggling

    serve: in volleyball and tennis, a way of putting the ball into play by sending it over the net

     

    juggle: to handle more than one object or activity at one time: perform a clever trick

     

    spare: Left over, remaining, extra

     

    spirit: enthusiasm; loyalty

     

    deliberately; when something is done on purpose or intentionally

     
    Lesson 4 - The Abacus Contest 

    abacus: a tool used to figure math problems by sliding counters

     

    drills: exercises to increase your mental or physical skills

     

    mischievous: full of pranks and teasing fun

     

    collided:  crashed

     

    accuracy: being without mistakes
     
    Lesson 5 - SOR Loser 

    interviewed: asked questions to find out abut a person or what a person thinks

     

    record: a written account of the number of games the team won and lost during the season

     

    prediction: what someone thinks will happen in the future

     

    attitude: how someone acts or behaves to show his or her feelings or thoughts

     

    ashamed: embarrassed; not proud

     

    defeatist: having no confidence to win

     

    Lesson 6 - Children of the Rain Forest
    Equator: the imaginary line that circles Earth’s center: it is perpendicular to Earth’s axis and equally distant from Earth’s Noreth and Sourth Poles.

     

    Biologist: A person who studies pland and animal life specific to certain environments

     

    Enthusiastic: filled with excitement

     

    Preserve: to protect and maintain

     

    Optimistic: Having a positive outlook

     

     

Last Modified on September 16, 2007