Here is a worksheet on the verb forbid when used with an object and an infinitive.
The teacher forbid the students to smoke in class.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the idiom. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. As I have come to expect from the editors of The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, this is at once a short, cogent, and thorough explanation of the concept of the idiom and its uses.
Parenthetically, I have served many learners of English as a new language (though I have no academic credentials to do so) over the years. Idioms always caused these students a lot of problems because, as the reading for this worksheet observes, an idiom “…does not seem to make sense.” Because idioms, in their way, are excellent specimens of abstraction in language, they require interpretation. I’ve often wondered why they aren’t taught explicitly as such. Such a strategy, it seems to me, would cover a lot of pedagogical and cognitive bases, and prepare students for the kind of advanced thinking we theoretically want them to do.
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This week’s Text, for the final Friday of the first month of 2025, is this lesson plan on the Latin word roots carn and carni. They mean, which you know if you’ve ever enjoyed a non-vegetarian bowl of chili con carne, “flesh” and “meat.” This is a vigorous root in English, growing such words (all included on the worksheet below) as carnage, incarnate, reincarnation, and carnivore.
This lesson opens, should you be inclined to use it, with this context clues worksheet on the noun game. In this context, the word doesn’t define things you play at, but rather wild animals served as a meal–that is, game birds like pheasants, large mammals like deer (i.e. venison) and the like. This, I hope, points the way toward the meaning of these word roots.
Finally, this scaffolded worksheet is the principal work of this lesson. It includes all of the words listed above, as well as cognates from the Romance languages.
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Here is a worksheet on the verb expect when used with an object and an infinitive.
The student expected the professor to teach a cogent lesson on contract law.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Huguenots. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and three comprehension question.
And unless I miss my guess, most secondary educational institutions don’t take a deep enough dive into European history to spend too much time on the travails of French Protestants. I became interested in them when I learned that New Rochelle, New York, through which I have traveled frequently by train, was founded by Huguenots. Not only that, but as I researched this post, I discovered that New Paltz, New York (which I have never visited but heard good things about), was also founded by Huguenots.
So I wrote this, I suppose, mostly useless worksheet.
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This week’s Text is this second lesson plan on boxing weight divisions along with its attendant list as reading with comprehension questions. The first lesson in this series is available in the Weekly Text for 13 December 2024. This lesson joins a growing assortment of materials on boxing on this blog, which experience has shown me is of high interest to certain students. Hence, I have tagged this as high interest material.
This lesson, as in all lessons carrying the title The Order of Things, were suggested by and therefore adapted from Barbara Ann Kipfer’s book of the same name, which I highly recommend.
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Here is a worksheet on the verb encourage when used with an object and an infinitive.
The teacher encouraged the principal to learn the spelling of the noun matinee.
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“Corollary (noun): An assertion or proposition that follows implicitly, with little or no proof, from a given statement; an immediate deduction or inference; natural consequence, parallel, or accompaniment. Adjective: corollary
‘If this book doesn’t make you angry, it wasn’t worth writing.’ As any logician can tell you, the corollary of the above quotation is not necessarily true, that is, if the book does make you angry, it does not necessarily follow that it was worth writing. Laurence Urdang, Verbatim“
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “hit below the belt.” This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading (the first of one is a mildly unwieldy compound which might require revision for some readers) and three comprehension questions.
As you know, this idiom denotes issues of fair play. It arrives in the vernacular from boxing, in which hitting below the belt is illegal. This worksheet might be useful with other materials on boxing available on this blog. Since boxing, in my experience, tends to be of high interest, especially to boys and young men, I have tagged this post as such.
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The Weekly Text for 17 January 2025 from Mark’s Text Terminal is this reading on Sears Roebuck along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
Why? Because I have it, for one thing. But for people of a certain age in the country (that is, my age or older) remember that Sears, along with JC Penney, were in the retail firmament the rough equivalent of Amazon today. There was no Internet, so that comparison breaks down; but both retailers issued mail-order catalogues that arrived, at least in my household, fairly regularly throughout the year. The Sears Catalog, which began offering full lines of hard goods, began publication in 1893. By 1908, Sears actually offered home kits in its catalog–among the sewing machines, sporting goods, musical instruments, saddles, firearms, buggies, bicycles, baby carriages, and some clothing (all introduced in 1894), and Edison’s Graphophone (introduced in 1908). Growing up, all my school clothes came from Sears (there was a store at the corner of Ingersoll Street and East Washington Avenue, if memory serves, in my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, where the city, last I knew, has its bus barn). The company’s Craftsman tool line (now owned by Stanley Black & Decker) was among the best available–and guaranteed for life. I owned quite a few of them, as did my uncle, who owned an auto parts store and was a freelance small aircraft designer and builder.
Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 15 October 2019. According to the Wikipedia page on the retailer, as of April 2024 there are 11 Sears stores–ten in the continental United States and one in Puerto Rico–remaining. Near where I now live, in Flatbush, Brooklyn, there is a remnant store–an art deco beauty–at the corner of Beverly Road and Flatbush Avenue; the building is empty, but New York City landmarked it in 2012, so it is protected.
So you can see that Sears Roebuck was an important part of the American retail landscape for a long time.
There is something to be learned about business cycles, branding, management, retail trends–and potentially a whole host of other topics in business education. There has been no small amount of ink spilled on what led to Sears’ downfall; just search “Why Sears went out of business.”
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