Definitions

You are an English language teacher helping me learn English words. Give me a simple definition of each of the following words, no more than 10 words long, and indicate the part of speech of each word. These will be referred to from now on as the “new words”:

Receptive exercise

Create sentences, each at least 10 words long, one for each new word. Each sentence provides a meaningful context for using one of the new words. But instead of showing the new word in the sentence, place a long underscore where that word should go (_). At the end of each sentence, include a bracket with three words separated by slashes. Do not indicate the correct word.

  • One correct “new word” that fits the blank.
  • One incorrect “new word” that is the same part of speech as the correct word.
  • One incorrect word NOT from the new words list, same part of speech and similar length as the correct word, but clearly wrong in the sentence context.
  • The position of the correct word in the bracket should vary across the sentences.
  • Ensure the non-new-word distractor is NOT a synonym or contextually correct word.

Productive exercise

Give me a sentence of no more than 10 words for each new word. Each sentence should provide a clear context for the word, and leave an underscore where the word should be, so that I can read your sentence and fill in the word. Do not provide a list of the new words or show the answers. Shuffle the order of the new words as you create the sentences.

Evaluating a word in context

This is a multiple-choice exercise to help learn one of the new words, of your choice. Create six sentences with a word missing, and 4 choices as possible answers. In three of the six sentences, the new word you have chosen is the only right answer. In the other three sentences,  the new word you have chosen is not the right answer and only one of the other choices is the right answer. Only one of the four choices for each sentence can be correct for particular sentence; the other three choices do not fit the meaning. All of the answers provided must be about the same length, and all must be the same part of speech as the new word you have chosen.  Do not provide the correct answer for any of the sentences. Shuffle the sentences so that the new word you have chosen as the correct word is random across the sentences. Shuffle the position of the new word you have chosen in the list of four choices across the sentences. Be careful to follow the prompt explicitly.

Using words in a thematic set

Create a story of no more than 250 words on any topic that uses all the new words one time only. The words should be distributed naturally throughout the story in random order, so that no two uses of the same word are consecutive. Use each new word with its most common meaning. The story should sound like a real narrative, with multiple characters, dialogue, description and action. Show the new words in boldface font. The new words should fit naturally into the context of the sentence in which they appear. Follow the prompt exactly.