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Four Ways to Use the “Cloze” Tests for Easy English NEWSPrintoutthetestsandmakecopiesforeverystudent.Choosethemostappropriatewaytousethetests:
1.Afterreadingthearticle,havestudentsworkinpairstofindthecorrectwordfromthewordbanktowriteintheblanks.Theymaychecktheiranswersusingthenewspaper.
2.Afterreadingthearticle,havestudentsworkalonetowritethecorrectwordsfromthewordbankintheblanks.
3.TearofftheWordBankatthebottomofthepagebeforehandingoutthepagetostudents.Afterreadingthearticleandhavingcopiedandstudiedthespellingsintheparagraph,havestudentswriteinthecorrectwordsasyoudictatetheparagraph.HandbacktheWordBanksostudentscanchecktheirspelling.
4.Beforereadingthearticle,andbeforehandingoutthetestpagetostudents,tearofftheWordBankatthebottomofthepage.Havestudentsworkinpairsorgroupsofthreetocomeupwithwordsthatwouldmakegoodsentences.(Theremaybemanycorrectanswersinfact,sochecktheirpapersforcorrectgrammar.)Thenhavestudentsreadthearticleandredothetest.
Three ways to use “Which Word Does Not Belong?”
Printoutthetestandmakecopiesforeachstudent.
1.Discussionactivity:Havestudentsworkinpairsanddiscusseachsetoffourwordsfollowingeachnumber.Havethemtalkaboutreasonswhythreeofthewordsgotogetherandonedoesnot.Theyeachcircletheiranswerontheirpaper.
2.Wordcomprehension/speakingactivity:Havestudentsworkaloneandcirclethewordthatdoesnotbe-longwiththerest.Later,gooverthetestorally,andaskstudentstogivereasonsfortheiranswers.Example: Florida, Puerto Rico and New Mexico were all part of Spain. But Spain was the mother county.Or,iftheymightsay,People in Florida, Puerto Rico, and New Mexico are citizens of the United States, but the people in Spain are not.Ortheymightsay,Florida, Puerto Rico and New Mexico are in or near North America, but Spain is in Europe. Ortheymightsay,Florida, New Mexico, and Spain are not islands, but Puerto Rico is an island.Iftheirreasoningisvalid,theiransweriscorrect.Theremaybemorethanonecorrectanswertoaquestion.
3.Havestudentscirclethewordthatdoesnotbelongwiththeothersandwriteouttheirreasons.
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Name___________________________________________________ Date ___________________
The 112th Congress
Americanvoters_____________________anewCongress* November2,2010.It’sthe112th
Congress____________________thefirstU.S.Congressin1789.The_________________________
andrepresentatives*willtake office*on______________________3,2011.
Therearemanynew_______________________ofCongress.Ninety-three
representativesinthe________________________ofRepresentativesarenew.(The
totalnumberofrepresentativesis435.)Ofthe100senators,16arenew.
The_______________________________haveamajority*intheHouseof
Representatives(242to192).(Oneseatwasnotdecidedasofpresstime.)The
__________________________havethe_____________________intheSenate:
(51to47)withtwoindependents*.____________________________Obamaisa
Democrat.
WORD BANK
Democrats Republicans majority elected since
January President senators members House
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Name_________________________________________________ Date _____________________
“You’re Under Arrest!”
Minor______________________areusuallycalledmisdemeanors. The
______________________ foramisdemeanorisafineor less thanone
_______________injail.
Majorcrimesarecalled____________________. Thepunishmentsaremore
__________________________.
Foramisdemeanor,the ________________________ willgivethepersona
summons.Thepersonisreleased*.Thesummonsgivesa___________________ when
thepersonmustgoto_____________________.
Ifapersondoesnotappearincourtasordered,thecourtwillissuea
________________________ fortheperson’s_________________________.
WORD BANK
crimes arrest warrant felonies serious
police penalty year date court
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Name_______________________________________ Date ________________
The Solar Calendar
The__________________________Egyptianshadacalendarbasedonthesolar
_____________________.Ithad12months,eachwith30days.Eachmonthhadthree
____________________often________________________.Attheendoftheyear,therewerefive
_____________________________daysforholidays.
In45BCE*,JuliusCaesaraskedan_____________________________ tofixthesolarcalendar.
Theastronomerdecidedthat______________________________yearswouldhave365days,and
then________________________yearwouldhave366days.Theyearwith366dayswascalleda
“____________________________year.”TheJuliancalendarwasusedallovertheRoman
____________________________________.
WORD BANK
astronomer ancient Empire year extra
three leap weeks days one
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Name_______________________________________ Date ________________
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Oneday,in1955,ablack__________________________,RosaParks,wasridinghomefrom
work,inMontgomery,Alabama.Thebus________________________askedRosaParkstomove
fartherbackandgiveherseattoa___________________________person.RosaParkswouldnotget
up.Thebusdrivercalledthepolice.They_____________________________her.
The__________________________ofRosaParks’arrestspreadfast.That
night,_____________________peopleinMontgomeryhadameetingatalarge
___________________.Theydecidedthattheywouldboycott the___________________
companyuntiltheruleswerechanged.
MartinLutherKing,Jr.,a__________________________ ofthechurch,ledthe
boycott.Blackpeoplewalkedtowork.Thosewhohadalongdistancetogoshared
ridesincarsor________________________.
WORD BANK
bus taxis church arrested driver
minister black white woman news
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Name_______________________________________ Date ________________
The Strange Case of the English Language
Englishisthemostwidely-spokenlanguageinthehistoryofour_____________________.One
outof_________________peopleintheworldcanspeakEnglishatsomelevel.
Englishisthefirstlanguagein20_____________________countries.Itisan
__________________________ languagein87countries.
_____________________oftheworld’sbooksarewritteninEnglish.Themajority
of____________________________telephonecallsaremadeinEnglish.Sixty
_______________________oftheworld’sradioprogramsarebroadcastinEnglish.Eightypercentof
allemailsareinEnglish.
Englishhasthelargest_______________________________ofalltheworld’slanguages.Noone
knowstheexactnumberforsure,butitiscertainlymorethana_________________________words.
WORD BANK
official five million planet Most
international percent vocabulary different
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Name_______________________________________ Date ________________
Water, a Great Medicine
The__________________bodyislikeapond.Whenthereisnorainforalong____________,
thewaterinthepondgoesdownandall_____________________inthepondsuffers.Manylifeforms
_______________________.Chronicdehydrationdoesthesametohumantissuesandcells.
________________________isoneofthesimplest,safest,cheapest,andmost
effectivewaystohelp___________________heal,andtokeepthemworkingwell.
MostAmericanstodayareoften________________________.Manypeopleareon
medicationsthat______________________outtheircellsevenmore.
Watergeneratesenergy,but__________________andsugardrinksactually
_________________________energyinthelongrun.
WORD BANK
time caffeine drain human life
die water cells dry dehydrated
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Name_______________________________________ Date ________________
January: Which Word Does Not belong?
Threewordsineachrowgotogether.Oneworddoesnotbelongwiththem.Drawacirclearoundthewordthatdoesnotbelong.Bereadytoexplainyourreasons.
A B C D
1. senator representative police Congress
2. president vicepresident majority speakeroftheHouse
3. stopsmoking vote exercise loseweight
4. mummer minister police senator
5. kin family parents kind
6. cells minerals glands muscles
7. ElCapitan HalfDome monolith glacier
8. sing-alongs rockclimbing horsebackriding backpacking
9. TomSawyer HuckleberryFinn Halley’sComet MartinLutherKing,Jr.
10. foot yard deep fathom
11. attorney trial judge defendant
12. court penalty fine punishment
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