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Lesson 4 Word Knowledge

busy

• Note that busy comes in different forms: busy, busier, busiest

• Explain that busy has different usages. It can mean…

doing something active: “Mary is busy cleaning her room.”

full of activity: “Today was a busy day.”

in use: “The phone line was busy, so I will call him later.”

not available: “I can’t help you, I’m busy.”

•Discuss that people can be busy (i.e. doing many things at once) or places can be busy

(traffic along a road, a shopping mall packed with shoppers, airports, train stations, etc.)

• Make a list of the students’ ideas of busy. Ask them what situations could be busy.

•List and discuss things that can keep someone busy: cleaning, writing, building something,

playing with a friend, drawing, watching TV, riding your bike, thinking. Remember that these

answers are subjective because busy can be anything that has you actively doing something.

• Expressions: busy body, busy work

to grow impatient

•Discuss the difference between being patient and being impatient.

• Emphasize that to grow (in this phrase) means the same as to become. It refers to a gradual

change. Explain that growing impatient is one of those things that get worse over time. The

more you have to wait or be patient for something the more dramatic your reaction is.

•Discuss the following phrases and what they mean: to grow angry, to grow bored.

•Work on pragmatic skills. Discuss situations where you need to be patient (waiting in line at

the grocery store, waiting for your turn on the playground). Discuss why it is important to

have patience and to be patient at times. Have students role-play a situation where one is

growing impatient and the other students guess what he/she is growing impatient about.

Some examples could be waiting in line, waiting for a turn in a game.

furious

• Similar to angry and mad but to a more intense degree: very angry!

•Make a continuum to show the various degrees of being mad:

upset – mad – angry – enraged — furious.

•Discuss and list on a chart situations that would make you angry vs. those that would make

you furious.

•Have students role-play the situations on the chart and make sure they use the sentence,

“I am furious because_________ ” or “I am furious about______”

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