flesl.net paired stories: vocab handout: Joshua Fleuelling

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• Below, in Box 1, are fifteen words taken from the story, “Joshua Fleuelling”
• In Box 2, draw an elephant. Put each of the fifteen words on what seems to you the best spot on the elephant. Be ready to explain why you put the words where you put them.

Box 1: The Words

announce

attack

beat

collapse

controversy

critical

emergency

lack

patient

reduction

respiratory

ride

suburb

support

trip

Box 2: The Elephant

• Now explain to your partner(s) why you put the words where you put them.

• I discovered this type of exercise in Vocabulary, by John Morgan & Mario Rinvolucri, Oxford University Press, 1986, (fl)