Teaching page · Grade 3 · Lesson 11
What is special about academic English? — meet the words
You have met these words and used them. Now you choose between them.
The words
Watch how it is built
1observe means about the same as watch.
We observed the moth for a week.
2select means about the same as pick.
Select the best example.
3complete means about the same as finish.
Complete the chart.
Two ways to say it
✗ We watchd the moth for a week. — this is not wrong, but it is everyday talk.
✓ We observed the moth for a week. — this is how a writer says it.
Ask yourself: “Which of these two is closer to what I mean?”
Remember
School words and home words both belong.
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