Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 5

This week's theme is: At the Theater

Word List 5

1. improvises: to make up on the spur of the moment.
2. optimist: one who expects a good outcome
3. blunder: to make a foolish mistake
4. dialogue: the passages of talking in a play or movie
5. pursue: to continue with a plan
6. mimic: to copy
7. cope: to deal with problems

Friday Activities

1. Click Flashcards - Time for Kids Create your own flash cards. When you're done you can copy the web address and use the flash cards again. Your flash cards will expire after two weeks.
2. Log into the Read the Words website
3. Type in sentences or a story using your vocabulary words, and then listen to the avatar read it back to you. We suggest that you create a free user account and save these files to playback at a later time.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

When she forgets her lines, she improvises.
Once given a scene, the girls must improvise their play.

Although the cast is not ready, the director is optimistic.
After being rejected for the role, she still remains optimistic.

The actress blundered her lines
The stage hand blundered the spot light placement.

The actor must memorize the dialog of his character.
For the audition, he read the dialogue in advance so he would be familiar with it.

The young girl wants to pursue her dream as a star.
After being rejected 5 times, she decided to pursue another career.

"Mimic my moves," the dancer said to the girl.
She had to mimic the dialect of a person from India.

Actors must cope with being rejected.
The director must cope with the personalities of the stars.

 
 

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