instructions:
• look carefully at the forty words below. look up the meaning of any words you don’t know.
• make a list of five words
• mentally make up a story using the words you chose. (in other words no pens or paper!)
• tell your story to your partner (or in a group of three) and explain why you chose the words you chose.
anorexic
ashamed
bug
camp
cheek
chubby
cousin
depression
desire
diet
disgusting
energetic
fool
gain
goal
hallucination
hip
honeymoon
overdraw
mental
naked
nutritionist
obsessed
operation
perfect
pill
powerful
primary
privilege
pronounce
psychologist
reality
reporter
shy
solve
strict
successful
symptom
tease
vomit
- the idea for this exercise was found in Vocabulary,John Morgan & Mario Rinvolucri, Oxford University Press, 1986