VOCABULARY ACTIVITY: QUOTES TASK CARDS

Help your students learn new vocabulary with this fun and engaging activity. In this activity, students will circulate the room to find task cards with famous quotes that contain challenging vocabulary. They will record what they think the new term means based on the context on their sheet! In the end, everyone comes together to go over the task cards and learn the real meaning of the words. You can either choose to provide the definitions or have students look up the words.

INCLUDED IN YOUR PURCHASE 

• Teacher instructions for how to set up and organize the activity 

• 28 Task cards that include a quote from a famous person that includes a bolded challenging vocabulary words. The cards also provide important information on who the famous person is and what they are known for. 

• A student recording sheet with the famous people's names, the new vocabulary word, a space for them to guess the meaning, and a place to write the correct definition. 

• A detailed teacher answer key with definitions for each vocabulary word

VOCABULARY TERMS COVERED

→ Superstition

→ Vain

→ Hoax

→ Threshold

→ Lamentation

→ Feeble

→ Appallingly

→ Compromise

→ Inordinate

→ Cognizant

→ Immensely

→ Perspiration

→ Vibrantly

→ Affirmations

→ Conviction

→ Tenacity

→ Irreversibly

→ Implicitly

→ Triumphant

→ Indomitable

→ Vulgarity

→ Intolerable

→ Endure

→ Incivility

→ Immorality

→ Adversity

→ Vocation

→ Embark

→ Vice 

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