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In Search of the First Language
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Classroom Activity
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Objective
To consider the origin of the everyday words.
- copy of "Getting the Word Out" student handout
(PDF or
HTML)
- Access to reference materials
Organize students into teams. Copy and distribute the "Getting the Word Out" student handout to each team. If students become stuck, suggest ways to use available reference materials to arrive at the correct answers.
- vamoose
- Teflon
- gauche
- Ouija
- equivocate
- magazine
- vandal
- sneeze
- ramshackle
- volcano
- scuttlebutt
- October
- curfew
- yoga
- ruminate
- mayday
- Auld lang syne
- utopia
- semester
- sinister
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