PRACTICE YOUR SKILLS
Test your knowledge about the previous lesson!
Now... Let's practice!
For the following sentences think of a synonym for each underlined word as it is used in context.
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1. His lucid lectures, along with his clearly presented explanations, made him a popular professor.
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2. Their vociferous chatter made me wish I had ear plugs.
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3. He was so impudent to his mother that I would have punished him if he talked to me that way.
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4. The Russians are skillful at sending cryptic messages, open to many interpretations. Our State Department spends days puzzling over their meanings.
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5. The Great Flood of Noah’s day was caused by incessant rain that fell for 40 days and nights.
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6. The students who arrived late told the teacher an implausible story about stopping to watch a UFO.
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7. After spending three weeks in the hospital, I had a surfeit of daytime TV programming.
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8. The prisoners liberated from the Nazi death camp were so emaciated that they looked like skeletons.
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9. Bob decided to be prudent and call ahead for reservations, instead of just showing up.
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10. The ambiguity of Joe’s directions made it almost impossible to find his house.
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11. The job candidate’s background was impeccable – good references and many years of experience, but the company did not give her the job.
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12. The tranquilized grizzly bear was lethargic enough for the scientists to safely examine his teeth and tattoo his ears.
FURTHER PRACTICE + CLASS ACTIVITY
Now choose two of the sentences and in a PIKTOCHART explain the motives of your synonym choice. Develop your explanation using the thinking routine: “What makes you say that”. Send your piktocharts to your teacher’s e-mail ngonzalez@pinares.edu.co and prepare to share them with your classmates.
