Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________

Year: _____________________

Vocabulary Exercise
wise foolish out of trouble to fish tricked

passing travellers wailed rest annoyed

tied howled price catch from a distance

pleaded approached insulted release bears

settle down kept surprised strange

1. After a few nights, he should learn how to _________________ by himself.

2. He was a brave soldier and a _________________ teacher.
3. Curious about the great animal, Yully _________________ the fence.
4. And I _________________ you by being so rude.
5. You had to pay the _________________ for it, and so did I.
6. He _________________ his grades up and _________________, and for that John wanted
to reward him.
7. Within three years the plants will begin to spread and _________________ fruit.
8. She seemed distressed and softly _________________, "Please?"
9. After he spent years in prison, he was _________________ last summer, in
California.
10. Somewhere a few blocks away, an ambulance _________________.
11. The _________________ now resumed their walk toward the cottage, which they
presently reached.
 Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
Match the word to its meaning
wise foolish out of trouble to fish tricked

passing travellers wailed rest annoyed

tied howled price catch from a distance

pleaded approached insulted release bears

settle down kept surprised strange

1. showing pain or grief by long, loud cries - _________________

2. to beg earnestly - _________________
3. a cry of pain, anger, grief - _________________
4. to treat or speak to someone with great disrespect; hurting another person's
feelings - _________________
5. to produce or to come with something - _________________
6. silly; unwise - _________________
7. an action designed to outsmart or deceive someone - _________________
8. people who travel, especially to distant places. - _________________
9. to be set free, to be let loose - _________________
10. to establish a settled lifestyle - _________________
11. amazed by an event - _________________
Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
Take home practice (Dictation for next lesson)
 Name: _____________________ Today's date: ___________________
Year: _____________________
as although from on which

about before if out who

across for in to whom

Let me share with you. I have a friend, named Bruce, (1) _________________
must be the sweetest, shyest person in the world. He is (2)
_________________ forty years old, rather short and skinny, has a thin
moustache and even thinner hair on his head. (3) _________________ his
vision is not perfect, he wears poorly prescribed glasses which are too
big for his face. In order not to inconvenience anyone, he always walks
sideways. Instead of saying 'Excuse me', he prefers to glide by one side.
If the gap is so narrow that it will now allow him to pass, Bruce waits
patiently (4) _________________ the obstruction, be it animate or inanimate,
rational or irrational, to move by itself. Stray dogs and cats panic him,
and in order to avoid them, he constantly crosses from one side of a
road (5) _________________ the other.

He speaks (6) _________________ a very thin, subtle voice, so inaudible that

it is hard to tell if he is speaking at all. He has never interrupted anybody.
(7) _________________ the other hand, he can never manage more than two
words without somebody interrupting him. This does not seem to irritate
him; in fact, he actually appears to be happy to have been able to utter
just those two words.

Bruce is the oldest and the least important employee of a dismal

company that imports cloth. It operates (8) _________________ of a very
dark building with black-stained wooden floors situated in Alsina Street.
He goes to work dressed all in black, wearing a very old suit that shines
(9) _________________ age. He only owns one shirt (10) _________________ is the
one he wore for the first time on the day of his marriage. He also only
owns one tie so frayed and greasy that it looks more like a shoelace.