Football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. It is a game where players bolt down the field hoping to score points for their team. As this is happening the other team is attempting to hold up this process in attempts to gain points for there own team. This can cause violent collisions which can cause players' bodies to buckle. A game of football is a timed event with 4 quarters each lasting for 15 minutes. At the end of the 60 minutes of play the game is finished. But over the course of those 60 min both teams coaches overlook their teams to make sure that there are no oversights that may cause their team to lose that game.American football is much like American language, since they both have contradictions. One example of these contradictions in the game of football is that it not really played with your feet, but more with your hands. This is like the English language because there are many words that also have contradictions in there different meanings. These words are called Contronyms, or words with contradictory meanings. Some of these terms are:
Bolt: To secure, or to flee
Buckle: To connect, or to break or collapse
Finished: Completed, or destroyed
Give out: To provide, or to stop because of a lack of supply
Hold up: To support, or to impede
Overlook: To supervise, or to neglect
Oversight: Monitoring, or failing to oversee
Vocabulary Exercise
Please circle the correct definition as used in the reading for each of the 6 vocabulary terms.
Bolt To secure OR To Flee
Buckle To connect OR To break or collapse
Finished Completed OR destroyed
Give out To Provide OR To stop because of a lack of
supply
Hold up To Support OR To inpede
Overlook To supervise OR To neglect
Oversight Monitoring OR Failing to oversee
Grammer Point
A colon is used at the end of a clause that introduces a list, especially when the following or as follows is used.
There are many different types of marsupials found in Australia: kangaroos, wallabies, numbats, possums and so on.
For all of your new vocabulary please write one sentence showing each of the words meanings.
Vocabulary Exercise
Please circle the correct definition as used in the reading for each of the 6 vocabulary terms.
Bolt To secure OR To Flee
Buckle To connect OR To break or collapse
Finished Completed OR destroyed
Give out To Provide OR To stop because of a lack of
supply
Hold up To Support OR To inpede
Overlook To supervise OR To neglect
Oversight Monitoring OR Failing to oversee
Grammer Point
A colon is used at the end of a clause that introduces a list, especially when the following or as follows is used.
There are many different types of marsupials found in Australia: kangaroos, wallabies, numbats, possums and so on.
For all of your new vocabulary please write one sentence showing each of the words meanings.
Your blog entry is great! I think your topic of contranyms would make a great lesson, so if you want, you may use it as the topic for your lesson.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Idea for a lesson. I think there are a lot of ESL kids with little knowledge of American footbal, and this type of reading may appeal to them if they are motivated to learn about a sport their friends are fans of.
ReplyDeleteThe excersise was great in that it was challenging content but the mthods f circle an answer if low anxiety fr students.