Deck 1: Foundational Flashcards
Tricksters: Desert and Dessert:
That little extra ’s’ gets you out of the hot desert to that ice cream dessert you have been dreaming about.
Can you bear to study more Tricksters?
‘Bear’ and ‘Bare’.
— The bear broke into our car at Yellowstone National Park to get our food bag.
NEXT: Here is a more complicated one ‘Bear and Bare’
Bear
— The bear broke into our car at Yellowstone National Park to get our food bag.
— She could bear the suspense no longer.
— The queen was able to bear four children. Three girls and finally a boy who would be king.
Bare
— How often have I told you not to leave the house at night in your bare feet?
— He was barely alive after being lost in the wilderness for ten days.
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a Which Sound Better to You — BEAR OR STAND?
You canbear (or stand) to listen to your great aunt tell the same story for the umpteenth time if you have a kind soul.
Desert~Dessert~Bear~Bare
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“You are an intelligent, capable learner.”*
“I Respect Your Ability To Learn.”
“And that is all I have to say about that.” … Mr.Gerry channeling Forest Gump!
Welcome Deck 1 Foundational Sample
This is a selection of 20 cards from our Foundation Series. However, the layouts, commenting procedures, and learner expectations are the same as for our Intermediate and Advanced Cards.
In general, who can benefit from this work?
— Those who need more challenge than their school is offering
— Non-Native speakers who need a boost in their English proficiency.
— And those that, through no fault of their own, have grown up in a vocabulary desert and need some sustained watering.
What is a vocabulary desert?
a English Proficiency Is Attained By Being An Active Learner
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a Rhinoceros
rahy-nos-er-us
Any of several large African or Asian mammals having short legs, thick tough skin, and one or two upright horns on the snout.
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Plan
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Annoy & Annoys
— My cat annoys me constantly by pushing the water bowl around and spilling it. I am sure she does it to annoy me.
— “People who chew with their mouths open really annoy me.”
— The children’s screaming annoyed the neighbors.
Annoy & Annoys
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Miserable
— Winter would be less miserable if the house was warm?
— He was making my life miserable.
— They lived in a miserable little run-down house just on the other side of the railroad tracks.
— The government put them into barely liveable housing and then gave them a miserable pittance to try and feed and clothe themselves
Note: Miserable goes beyond being sad — it means wretched. Someone miserable feels absolutely awful.
a How words are said is a big part of the meaning they convey.
— I’ve been miserable without you.
Miserable
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Attention: a noun
—- Class, can I have you
—- Read the article carefully and pay attention to the details.
—The speaker held the listeners’ attention for more than an hour.
— “Do you think his attentions are sincere?”r attention the assignment for tomorrow is to study for the spelling test.
Also Means: The posture taken by a soldier, with the body erect, eyes to the front, arms at the sides, and heels together as they are standing at attention.
But you as an active learner have already guessed that. ;)
Attention
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Clash/Clashed/Clashing
Tenses:
They clashed. (Past tense plural)
— We will be clashing. (Future tense plural) — He clashes with everyone ! (present tense singular)
— The cymbals in the orchestra clashed loudly.
— That shirt clashes with your pants.
— The two countries clashed repeatedly over a border dispute.
Clash/Clashed/Clashing
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Mumble / Mumbling: verb
To mumble is to talk quietly and indistinctly.
— When you mumble I can’t understand you.
— Mumbling is a way of speaking that’s like whispering but harder to understand.
— You were mumbling in your sleep and then started laughing.
a Do you remember if there was a character in one of the Bat Men movies named, ‘Mumbles’. Good nick name. Be thinking of a nick name for youself as you will use it when you start commenting soon.
Mumble: verb
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Problem: noun & adjective
As a noun:
—I have a problem with your attitude.
— In Problem two according to the Order of Operations, we had to first do the additon and then the multiplication.
As an adjective:
— He was always a problem child.,
Listen to how a word is said:
“Do you have a problem with this.”
“That child is a problem.” It will convery the feeling the speaker has about.
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Problem: noun & adjective
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Surprise – A very versatile word
— To her own surprise a new power of life emerged in her. (as a noun)
— The surprise attack by the Russians caused the Ukrainians to be unprepared. (as an adjective):
— The low price of the antique really surprised me. (verb)
— The surprise was mutual; we both were surpised by their gracious offer. (noun & verb again)
— Cynthia offered the dessert but, surprisingly, Fred declined. (an adverb)
Be an active learner: Can you guess what versatile means in referring to this word? Ask your phone for a defintion to see if you were about right.
Surprise
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Sprint: noun & verb
— All the sprinters go on the first school bus.
— Shasha is a sprinter for the track team.
Next as a verb:
— In the third race, the relay team sprinted to victory in the 400 hundred-yard relay.
— He sprints quite fast for such a large man.
— Asprint is racing at your top speed for a short distance.
— She sprints faster than all of the boys. What an athlete!
a Aerobic vs. Anaerobic
er-ˈō-bik — a-nə-ˈrō-bik —
Sprinting is anaerobic while Jogging is aerobic.
Recall someone saying, “I need to do my aerobics.”
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Sprint / Anaerobic / Aerobis
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Repeat, Repeated, Repeats & Repeating:
Within the context of most sentences, the tense of a word is usually obvious, so we seldom list or discuss it. But here we do.
— Please repeat the question. (Action happening, so it is a verb)
— I repeated the poem I had memorized (Verb past tense)
— He’s always repeating himself. (a verb form)
And now as an adjective as in:
— He is a repeat offender;
— This TV program is arepeat
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Repeat & Its Tenses
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a Cloth Clothes (nouns)
Clothe (a verb)
. . . CLOTH - - - CLOTHES - - CLOTHE
. . . ˈklȯth ~ - - ~ ˈklōz ~ - - ~ ˈklōt͟h
As nouns — Put on some nice clothes; you can’t go to the wedding dressed like that.– “Hand me the red cloth.”
— In these times of high inflation, it isn’t easy to afford to feed and clothe a family.
As verbs — They can use good clothes to sell in their thrift shop and to help clothe the needy.
— Poeticly: The trees were clothed in their fall colors.
— In these times of high inflation, it isn’t easy to afford to feed and clothe a family.
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Clothes & Cloth & Clothe
ˈklōz /ˈklȯth /ˈklōt͟h
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Feast: noun & verb
Feast as a noun:
— Most Americans have a feast on Thanksgiving, complete with 20 lbs of turkey.
— The feast was held in the grandest room of the palace.
— The Mexican Festival of the Day of the Dead is fun and scary.
Feast as a verb.
– Feast your eyes on that beautiful landscape!ave a great feast centered on a baked turkey at Thanksgiving
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Feast(s) / Feasted
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Combine verb & noun
As a verb
—That movie combines an interesting story and with a moral. — We combine water, gravel, and cement to make concrete.
As a noun
— What is the combination on your lock?
— She loved the combination of his passion and gentle strength.
Notice: ‘Combine’ + ‘ation’ makes the noun combination.
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Combine / Combined / Combination
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Focus: noun & verb
As a noun
— The image is blurry when the binoculars are out of focus.
— The senator was the focus of attention at the meeting.
— The focus point of the earthquake was 20 miles south of Los Angeles.”
As a verb
— He focused on the chart his boss helped up in the light.
— This study focuses on the negative aspects of automobile pollution in the big cities.
— Her eyes focused on him when he entered the room. You decide if you need to review a card.
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Focus noun/verb
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Synonyms: Frighten, scare, alarm, terrify, panic
All these verbs mean to cause fear in a person or thing.
Frighten is the most general: —It’s hard to believe that elephants are frightened of mice.
Scare is also general, but less formal: —Don’t let the amount of homework scare you.
Alarm means to frighten suddenly: —The appearance of a rash on her arm alarmed her.
Terrify means to overwhelm with fear: — We were terrified that the footbridge would collapse as we walked on it.
Panic means to alarm a person to the point of losing self-control: — False reports of an invasion panicked the citizens.
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Question: Which Sounds Better?
The fire broke out quickly and spread rapidly (alarming or panicking) the concertgoers who wildly ran for the exits. What word works better at more precisely describing the situation? No comment is necessary.
Synonyms: Frighten, scare, alarm, terrify, panic
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a Comet noun
Definition: An object in the solar system consisting of a dense nucleus of frozen gases and dust, developing a luminous halo and tail near the sun.
Usage:
– Comets travel around the sun in an immense elongated orbit with a tail made up of dust and ice.
– The astronomer, Meech, called it a Manx comet, after a breed of cat without a tail.
– Saturn’s rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids, or moons.
– She came to the Hollywood scene qucikly and rose to stardom like a comet
Query: Have you heard of Halley’s Comet? It is significant because it is only available every 76 years. Mr. Gerry saw it back in 1986. It next comes back in 2061. How old will you be when it comes? Photo is of Halley back in 1986.
Make a comment telling us your age when it comes back.
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Comet noun
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Discipline
dis·ci·pline — ˈdi-sə-plən
When you have discipline, you have self-control. When you discipline children, you are either teaching them to be well-behaved, or punishing and correcting them.
As a noun:
— He quickly learned the discipline of prison routine.
— He had a mother that cared, he had discipline, he had nice clothes, a decent place to live.
As a verb:
— Parents must discipline their children.
— I do try to be disciplined in the way that I eat but my sweet tooth often derails my plI do try to be disciplined about my eating, but my sweet tooth often derails my plan.
Also as an adjective:
— A disciplined runner who’s training for a marathon has a regular, daily exercise routine.
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—Discipline / Disciplined—
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Morgue
A place where the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified or claimed. After a person dies, that person’s body is often placed in a morgue until it can be transported to a funeral home, church, or temple for a memorial service or funeral.
— Most hospitals have an area called a morgue, where dead bodies are stored until they are buried or cremated.
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Morgue
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