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Study guide — quiz 2

Grade 1 · Writing · 24 words · the quiz is after lesson 21
For the grown-up at home. This is a short vocabulary quiz. Your child does not need to write anything tonight if they are tired — five minutes of talking is enough, and talking is better than copying. You do not need to read English well to help: ask your child to tell YOU what each word means, in any language. If they can explain it, they know it.

The words

qualify — make less absolute / be eligible
resolve — settle / decide firmly
appreciate — understand / value
observe — watch / remark
sound — noise / reliable
marked — graded / clear
novel — a book / new
capital — money / a city / a letter
plant — factory / growing thing
volume — a book / loudness / space
current — flow / present
abstract — a summary / not concrete
a paradigm shift — a complete change of view
common ground — what both agree on
a watershed moment — a turning point
the crux of the matter — the central point
weather the storm — survive difficulty
a slippery slope — one step leading to worse
level the playing field — make it fair
a knock-on effect — a chain of results
take root — become established
a blanket statement — a claim about all
hold water — stand up to testing
in the final analyzis — when all is considered

Three things to do, five minutes

  1. Cover and say. Cover the right-hand side. Your child says what each word means.
  2. Use it. Pick three words. Your child says a whole sentence with each one — out loud, not written.
  3. Find the hard one. Ask which word is hardest. Do that one twice more. That is the whole homework.
What is on the quiz. Matching each word to what it means · putting the right word in a gap · writing 2 sentences of their own. There is also one bonus word we have NOT taught — it does not count toward the score, so nobody should worry about it.