PREPOSTIONS OF TIME
Have your student complete the sentences with prepositions of time: at; in; on; from…to.
1. I wake up ___ seven o’clock.
2. He was born ___1987.
3. We don’t have class ___Sunday.
4. I do my homework ___night.
5. She works ___ 9:00 A.M. ___ 3:00 P.M.
6. Their class starts ___ 8:30 A.M.
7. We have an appointment ___ 1:00 o’clock.
As usual, this lesson can easily adapted to your student’s level and needs.
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FILLING IN THE BLANKS
Missing words: conference; definition; finance; indifferently; possess; presidency; referee; refine; resident; subside; transfer; unfinished.
1. Glenn was short of money, so he decided to _____ the new car.
2. Sam attended a two-day educational _____ about naval history.
3. His father’s excellent promotion allowed Jim to ____ to the University of Michigan.
4. Alice learned that the term of the ____ of the society would last two years.
5. Bonnie had been a _____ of Philadelphia for ten years.
6. Harry returned to his office on Saturday to complete the ____ paperwork for the project.
7. Since Maura did not feel hungry, she looked at her dinner plate rather ____.
8. Can you guess how many books the school’s library will _____ at the end of the year?
9. Paul needed to___ his speech and shorten its length for the presentation.
10. Puzzled by the new word, Dan had to look up the ____ in the dictionary.
11. Every Sunday afternoon, Nora’s dad volunteers as a _____ for her soccer games.
12. The weather channel predicted that high winds would ____ about midnight.
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MORE VOCABULARY EXPANDERS
Match the word in Column A with the definition in Column B and the antonym in Column C.
Column A |
Column B |
Column C |
| concise adj. |
cautious, suspicious |
liking, inclination |
| flimsy adj. |
calm, still, quiet |
reckless, careless |
| lull v. |
fear, aversion, anxiety |
sturdy, solid |
| phobia n. |
short, to the point |
excite, arouse |
| wary adj. |
shabby, feeble, weak |
wordy, rambling |
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SPELLING CHALLENGE
Each sentence has one mispelled word, including this one.
- Jenny was able to learn any musical insturment in months.
- The antique chair came into Henry’s posession as a gift from his grandmother.
- Jack could not tell the diffrence between a Windsor desk and a harpsichord.
- Sara’s chief ocupation was quilting using ornate cotton fabrics.
- Every successfull writer has a painstaking editor.
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RHYMING
This exercise will help your student grasp the concept of rhyming – if he/she doesn’t already understand it. This poem, one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s, is a simple one that illustrates rhyming very nicely. “Learning” poems was a large part of my early education; do they still make students memorize and recite poetry today?
BED IN SUMMER
In winter I get up at _____.
And dress by yellow ________
In summer, quite the other _____,
I have to go to bed by _____.
Choose the rhyming words from this list:
evening time; morning time; candle-light; way; day; night, noontime.
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT…
As a change of pace, here are some literacy-related books.
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynn Truss
(Thanks to Diana Grubbs for this one.)
Some thoughts on the importance of punctuation.
- Grammar is a Gentle Sweet Song, Erik Orsenna
Some thoughts on the lives of words.
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
(plus four additional books in a series)
These last five books are excellent for reading to your student or for having your student read to you.
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