Week 15
Week 15 (8th December - 12th December)
Reminder:
💓Please sign the communication book every day
💗Please sign the quiz or test every Monday. I usually deliver the quiz or test paper on Monday.
💗 Quiz on Friday (12th December)
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Weekly Sentences 1.
Inside the cramped submarine, all I could hear was the
steady pinging of the sonar and the regular breathing of the pilot and
engineer. 2.
Like a ghost from the ancient past, the bow of the Royal
Mail Steamer Titanic, the greatest
shipwreck of all time, materialized out my viewport. 3.
It was here that First Officer William Murdoch, desperate to
avoid the mountain of ice that lay in the Titanic’s
path, shouted to the helmsman, “Hard a-starboard!” 4.
Thirty minutes later, after learning how quickly water was
pouring into the ship, he knew that the “unsinkable” Titanic was doomed. 5. In my mind’s eye I could see the
deck surging with passengers as the crew tried to keep order during the
loading of the lifeboats. |
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Word |
POS |
Definition |
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1. |
cramped |
adj. |
shut into a small
space |
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2. |
debris |
n. |
scattered fragments |
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3. |
interior |
adj. |
inner surface or
part |
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4. |
ooze |
n. |
a soft mud or slime,
especially at the bottom of a pond or river or on the ocean bottom |
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5. |
robotic |
adj. |
of or for a machine
with moving parts and sensing devices controlled by a computer |
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6. |
sediment |
n. |
material that
settles to the bottom of a liquid |
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7. |
sonar |
n. |
device for finding
the depth of water or for detecting and locating underwater objects |
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8. |
music |
n. |
vocal or
instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of
form, harmony, and expression of emotion |
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9. |
musician |
n. |
a person who plays a
musical instrument, especially as a profession, or is musically talented |
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10. |
select |
v. |
carefully choose as
being the best or most suitable |
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11. |
selection |
n. |
the action or fact
of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most suitable |
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12. |
sign |
n. |
a gesture, action or
object used to convey information or an instruction |
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13. |
signal |
n. |
indicator |
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14. |
part |
n. |
some but not all of
something |
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15. |
partial |
adj. |
incomplete |
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16. |
haste |
n. |
excessive speed or
urgency of movement or action; hurry |
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17. |
hasten |
v. |
be quick to do
something |
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18. |
protect |
v. |
keep safe from harm or injury |
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19. |
protection |
n. |
security |
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20. |
magic |
n. |
the power of apparently influencing events by using
mysterious or supernatural forces |
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21. |
magician |
n. |
a person with magical powers |
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22. |
resign |
v. |
voluntarily leave a job or office |
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23. |
resignation |
n. |
the acceptance of something undesirable but
inevitable |
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24. |
electric |
adj |
of, worked by, charged with, or producing
electricity |
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25. |
electrician |
n. |
a person who installs and maintains electrical
equipment |
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26. |
condemn |
v. |
express complete disapproval of; censure, denounce |
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27. |
condemnation |
n. |
the action of condemning someone to a punishment;
sentencing |
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28. |
recommendation |
n. |
a suggestion or proposal as to the best course of action,
especially one put forward by an authoritative body |
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29. |
compressed |
adj. |
flattened by pressure; squeezed or pressed together |
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30. |
harm |
v. |
physically injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted. |
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