instructions:
• look carefully at the forty words below. look up the meaning of any words you don’t know.
• make a list of seven 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.
abroad
adopt
advertisement
amateur
appeal
athletic
atmosphere
cataracts
challenge
charity
community
competition
contentment
conversation
courage
enthusiastic
hiss
image
impact
inheritance
insincere
jog
lap
meditation
motto
outskirts
pack
partition
premature
preserve
publicity
remind
restrict
scratch
sect
spacious
steady
stroke
tumour
vegetarian
- the idea for this exercise was found in Vocabulary,John Morgan & Mario Rinvolucri, Oxford University Press, 1986