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Vocabulary Worksheets
by Rachel Spack Koch
Intermediate level
Azar Grammar Series: Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3rd edition
Vocabulary Worksheets help students learn new vocabulary in the context of the
grammar covered in the tables of contents of the Azar textbooks or any comparable
syllabus. An Answer Key and Word List for target vocabulary are provided for
each chapter. You may download, reproduce and adapt the material to suit your
classroom needs. Vocabulary Worksheets are available as Word documents or PDF
files.
Chapter 11—Count / Noncount Nouns and Articles
1. Reading: Lara’s Blog
2. Vocabulary practice: Lara’s Blog
3. Hurricane Katrina: Lara’s Blog
4. Vocabulary practice
5. Reading: After the Hurricane
6. Vocabulary practice
7. Recipe for Beignets
8. Vocabulary practice
9. Which word belongs?
10. Crossword
Answer Key
Word List
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Worksheet 1. Reading: Lara’s Blog
This reading comes from a blog on the internet.
BY LARA WESSEL
I returned to New Orleans on a hot, humid Wednesday night in late 1
August from a summer job. I had been teaching drama at a camp 2
in Switzerland. By Friday night the weather news was all about an 3
approaching hurricane. 4
The mayor came on TV and urged everybody to evacuate the 5
city! Nobody wanted to leave, but we were scared. My family and I 6
decided to heed the warnings and escape the danger. On Sunday 7
morning we got into my father’s car and headed out of the city, to 8
Houston. It’s normally a five-hour drive to Houston, but the roads were so 9
crowded that it took us 12 hours. Traffic moved at a snail’s pace. We 10
traveled at less than 5 miles an hour for a long time. 11
We had made a hotel reservation in Houston, and finally arrived there in the 12
middle of the night. On Monday morning, we saw the news reports of the 13
terrible devastation of our beautiful city from the hurricane that had hit 14
during the night. We were hearing that people were lost, and there was no 15
means of communication because even the cell phones didn’t work. It was 16
horrible. We didn’t know yet that the worst was yet to come that day: the 17
levees broke, and the Mississippi River flooded most of New Orleans. 18
The city had no electricity, no refrigeration, no water. People ran out of 19
supplies. Stores could not open. Some hospital facilities didn’t work, and 20
patients and staff had to be evacuated. Some people who had not left the 21
city were rescued by boats and helicopters, but thousands of people were 22
stranded for days at the Superdome (the huge sports center) with little 23
help. 24
Those like us who had left the city could not get back in. Nothing would be 25
functioning “until further notice.” Schools were going to be closed for the 26
fall semester, and maybe longer. I was supposed to start a new job teaching 27
drama at a city high school. Now I was not able to return to my beloved city, 28
but I didn’t have a job there anyway. 29
Our friends were scattered all over in many different places. Nobody knew 30
what they were going to do next. I decided I would go to Florida to stay with 31
my brother who lived there, in Miami. Miraculously, I got a job teaching in 32
a high school right away. 33
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Worksheet 1, page 2
My parents were able to move back into their home after a few weeks. They 34
were lucky. They had roof damage, but not much damage from flooding. I 35
did not go back to visit during that first year. Now I am not sure what I am 36
going to do in the future, or where I am going to live. I do know more than 37
ever how much I love my city and its people. 38
It’s like the song by Louis Armstrong, “Do you Know What It Means to Miss 39
New Orleans?” 40
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
And miss it each night and day
I know I’m not wrong -- this feeling's gettin' stronger
The longer I stay away.
(Photo from Wikipedia)
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Worksheet 1, page 3. Vocabulary practice: Lara’s Blog
Circle the letter of the word or phrase with the same meaning as the bolded words.
The line number refers to the lines in Lara’s Blog.
1. In line 1, humid means _____.
a. dry b. damp
2. In line 4, approaching means _____.
a. coming near b. very strong
3. In line 5, urged means _____.
a. made a strong suggestion b. made a weak suggestion
4. In line 5, evacuate means that everybody _____.
a. leaves a place to be safer b. stays inside their homes
5. In line 6, scared means _____.
a. very tired b. afraid
6. In line 7, heed means _____.
a. leave in a hurry b. pay attention to advice
7. In line 7, warnings means _____.
a. fears about a danger b. notices about a danger
8. In line 10, the phrase moved at a snail’s pace means ___.
a. moved very slowly b. moved without being comfortable
9. In line 17, the phrase the worst was yet to come means _____.
a. the worst thing happened b. the worst thing was about to happen
10. In line 22, rescued means _______.
a. injured b. saved
11. In line 23, stranded means _____.
a. stuck b. taken care of
12. In line 26, until further notice means _____.
a. forever b. when you learn something new
13. In line 30, scattered means _____.
a. spread out b. stuck
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14. In line 32, miraculously means _____.
a. as expected b. very surprisingly
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Worksheet 2. Hurricane Katrina: Lara’s Blog
Choose the correct answer according to the information in Lara’s Blog.
In Item 6, circle all the correct answers.
1. This passage is _______.
a. a blog on the Internet
b. a letter to a friend
2. The passage is about _____.
a. the causes of the hurricane
b. the effects of the hurricane
3. Which statement is true?
a. Lara and her family stayed in New Orleans during the hurricane.
b. Lara and her family left New Orleans before the hurricane.
4. How does Lara know about the events in New Orleans?
a. Her friends called her on their cell phones.
b. She saw and heard about it on the news.
5. Which was worse for New Orleans?
a. The floods that followed the hurricane
b. The hurricane itself
6. Which of these statements is / are true about New Orleans after the storm
and the floods?
a. Most people didn’t have electricity.
b. Most people didn’t have refrigeration.
c. Most people didn’t have water.
d. The stores were open.
e. Hospitals were a good place to find food, water, and shelter.
f. Many people were evacuated from the city.
g. Many people were stranded, stuck, in the city.
h. Most people who had left New Orleans returned the next day.
7. What did Lara do after the hurricane?
a. She returned to New Orleans to teach drama at a high school.
b. She got a teaching job in Miami, Florida.
8. What is Lara’s feeling toward New Orleans now?
a. She misses New Orleans very much.
b. She doesn’t miss New Orleans at all because the experience of the
storm was so bad.
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Worksheet 3. Vocabulary practice
Complete the sentences with the correct word from the word pool.
approach camp devastation escape evacuate
hurricane mayor rescue warning
1. A place where children and teenagers go and take part in various or
special activities is a _______________________________.
2. Over the Pacific Ocean, this powerful storm is called a typhoon. Over the
Atlantic Ocean, it is known as a _______________________________.
3. If you are in an area near a strange dog, don’t _____________________
it. Although it might be friendly, it could bite you.
4. The leader of a city is its _______________________________.
5. In a theater, you can see a sign over some doors that says Exit. This sign
means that in case of emergency, you can ________________________
through this door.
6. We flew over the area where the hurricane had hit. We could see the
awful _______________________________ all over the city.
7. A water pipe broke in the office building and water began flooding the
building. The police helped the people ____________________________
the building as fast as possible.
8. The fire fighters broke down the door with an ax. They were able to
_______________________________ an old man in his wheelchair.
9. This sign to the right is a _________________________. It
means you must not enter this road.
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Worksheet 4. Reading: After the Hurricane
Read the blog entry from a worker who served in New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina. Answer the questions that follow it.
After the Hurricane
About a month after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, I went down there with my unit of the Northernmost States Electric and Power Company to help restore the electric power. When we arrived, most of the stores and shops were closed, including the famous Cafe Du Monde. But, the city was coming back to life, little by little, and I was there when the café reopened. What a sensual experience! There was a heavy aroma of chicory coffee in the air, mixed with a sweet fragrance that came from freshly-made beignets.
During the next weeks, I looked forward to the routine of having beignets and coffee at the café at 6:00 A.M. every morning. I was sorry to leave New Orleans when my work ended after two months. I have wonderful memories of the beignets and the Cafe Du Monde, not only of that great breakfast treat, but also of the spirit of hope and renewal that this New Orleans icon represents.
Circle T if the statement is true or F if the statement is false.
T / F This blog was written by an employee of a power company. T / F The writer helped to bring back the electricity to New Orleans. T / F The Café Du Monde was open when he arrived in the city. T / F The writer describes the smells of the café. T / F He did not like these smells. T / F The writer went to the café early every morning. T / F The writer stayed in New Orleans for two months. T / F The writer had beignets every morning. T / F He says that the beignets were a special treat. T / F He thinks the Café Du Monde is a symbol of hope and renewal.
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Worksheet 5. Vocabulary practice
Complete the sentences in Column A with the letter of the correct definition from
Column B.
Column A Column B
1. A unit is ____.
a. a pleasant smell
2. Restore means ____.
b. a special food that tastes good, especially
one that you do not eat very often
3. Sensual means ____.
c. a group of people working together as
part of a larger group
4. A routine is ____.
d. when an activity, situation, or process
begins again after a period when it had
stopped
5. A treat is ____.
e. relating to the feelings of your body
rather than your mind
6. Spirit means ____.
f. a symbol of a person or thing that
represents the person or thing
7. Renewal means ____.
g. in the direction toward the south
8. An icon is ____.
h. courage, energy, and determination
9. “I went down there”
means that I went
____.
i. make something return to its former
state or condition
10. Aroma and fragrance
both mean ____.
j. the usual order in which you do things, or
the things you regularly do
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Worksheet 6. Reading: Recipe for Beignets
New Orleans Beignets
Ingredients
• 1 stick of butter
• 2 tbsp. of sugar
• 1 tsp. of salt
• 1 package of yeast
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2 cup of boiling water
• About 6 cups of flour
Cooking procedure
• Melt the butter, and add the sugar and the salt to it.
• Add the butter mixture to the yeast to dissolve it. Mix in the egg and the
water.
• Add the flour gradually by kneading it until you form a nice dough.
• Put the dough aside for at least half an hour while it rises.
• Put some flour on the surface of your board and spread the dough over it.
• Roll the dough out so that it is about two inches thick.
• Cut the dough into squares, about 2 inches X 2 inches.
• Drop the squares gently into hot oil. The squares will fry very quickly.
• Now they are beignets! Take them out of the pan and place them on
absorbent paper to get rid of the excess grease.
• Sprinkle powdered sugar on top. Serve while they are nice and hot.
yeast = a type of fungus used to make bread rise
dough = a mixture of flour and water ready to be baked into bread
knead = to press a mixture of flour and water many times with your hands
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Worksheet 6, page 2
Choose the correct word in parentheses to complete each sentence.
1. Beignets are like (round / square) little cakes.
2. Tbsp is the abbreviation for tablespoon. There are
two tablespoons of (salt / sugar) in this recipe.
3. Tsp is the abbreviation for teaspoon. There is one
teaspoon of (salt / sugar) in this recipe. (3 tsps.= 1 tbsp.)
4. When you melt the butter, the butter becomes (solid / liquid).
5. Dough is a (mixture / liquid) of flour, water, and some other ingredients.
6. When you (add / dissolve) a solid, you mix it with a liquid and it
becomes part of the liquid.
7. A product of wheat is (flour / sugar). Bread is made from it.
8. If you place something nearby and you are going to use it soon, you put
it (away / aside).
9. The top of something is its (board / surface).
10. Bread that is not baked yet is in the form of (squares / dough).
11. When you throw away something or destroy it because you don’t want it
any more, you (get rid of / look forward to) it.
12. A raincoat isn’t (humid / absorbent), but paper towels are.
13. Excess means (too much / not enough)
14. (Sprinkle / Knead) a little salt on the tomatoes. They taste good with
just a little salt.
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Worksheet 7. Vocabulary practice
Complete the sentences with the correct word from the word pool.
aside beat boil dissolve flour gradually
grease mix rid roll spread sprinkle
1. You can ___________________________ peanut butter
and jelly on two pieces of bread to make a nice sandwich.
2. The children didn’t like their new teacher right away, but
_______________________________ they learned to love her.
3. A ball will _______________________________ when you kick it, but a
large rock will not.
4. When you _______________________________ yellow paint with blue
paint, you get green paint.
5. Put some sugar in your hot coffee. The sugar will __________________.
6. A fire can start in a kitchen if hot _____________________________ drops
on the stove.
7. Water will _______________________________ at 212 degrees Fahrenheit
(100 degrees Celsius).
8. Let’s get _________________________ of all the junk in the garage. We’ll
clean it out on Saturday.
9. Take a little rest. Put your work ______________________________
and finish it later.
10. Those flowers need a little water every day. You can
________________________________ them with
water from a watering can.
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Worksheet 8. Vocabulary practice
One word in each item is incorrect. Cross out the incorrect word and replace it with
a logical word from the word pool.
boiled
devastation
evacuated
grease
heed
powdered
renewal
rescued
routine
scared
sprinkle
unit
1. As a result of the hurricane, there was a lot of dough devastation. It was
terrible.
2. People were being dissolved from the buildings.
3. You’d better escape the warning: stay in your house.
4. Roll a little sugar on top of the strawberries.
5. The spirit of money in several European countries is the euro.
6. Spring is the time of excess for flowers, plants, and trees. They begin to
grow again.
7. After the sailors had been stranded on the island for a week, they were
restored by a Navy helicopter.
8. The cat was melted by the loud thunder and hid under the bed.
9. Astronauts take scattered eggs in aluminum bags with them on long
flights. Even after several weeks, they can add water to the package and eat
the mixture.
10. We often take beaten eggs with us on picnics. I eat the
whites, and Sam eats the yolks.
egg white
egg yolk
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Worksheet 9. Which word belongs?
Complete each group with a word or phrase from the word pool that has a similar
meaning to the other words in the group.
beat
boil
devastation
fragrance
grease
humid
icon
leave
little by little
scared
small cake
wheat
1. damp, wet, _________________________________________
2. evacuate, escape, _________________________________________
3. afraid, frightened, _________________________________________
4. oil, fat, _________________________________________
5. smell, aroma, _________________________________________
6. sign, symbol, _________________________________________
7. donut, beignet, _________________________________________
8. heat, fry, _________________________________________
9. ruin, destruction, _________________________________________
10. gradually, slowly, ________________________________________________
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Worksheet 10. Crossword
Complete the crossword puzzle. Use the clues to figure out the words. All the words
are from Chapter 11. Write the correct words across and down. Write one letter in
each space.
ACROSS
3 The _____ is yet to come: more bad things will happen.
5 Get ______ of it; throw it away.
6 Put that ______ until later.
7 Directions for cooking something.
DOWN
1 Until further _________; until you receive new information.
2 Little by little.
4 At a snail’s pace ____; to go very slowly
8 Symbol
1 2
3
4
5 6
7 8
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Answer Key Worksheet 1 1. b. damp
2. a. coming near
3. a. made a strong suggestion
4. a. leaves a place to be safer
5. b. afraid
6. b. pay attention to advice
7. b. notices about a danger
8. a. moved very slowly
9. b. the worst thing was about to happen
10. b. saved
11. a. stuck
12. b. when you learn something new
13. a. spread out
14. b. very surprisingly
Worksheet 2 1. a. a blog on the Internet
2. b. the effects of the hurricane
3. b. Lara and her family left New Orleans before the hurricane.
4. b. She saw and heard about it on the news.
5. a. The floods that followed the hurricane
6. a. Most people didn’t have electricity.
b. Most people didn’t have refrigeration.
c. Most people didn’t have water.
f. Many people were evacuated from the city.
g. Many people were stranded, stuck, in the city.
7. b. She got a teaching job in Miami, Florida.
8. a. She misses New Orleans very much.
Worksheet 3 1. camp
2. hurricane
3. approach
4. mayor
5. escape
6. devastation
7. evacuate
8. rescue
9. warning
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Worksheet 4 1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. T
8. T
9. T
10. T
Worksheet 5 1. c
2. i
3. e
4. j
5. b
6. h
7. d
8. f
9. g
10. a
Worksheet 6 1. square
2. sugar
3. salt
4. liquid
5. mixture
6. dissolve
7. flour
8. aside
9. surface
10. dough
1. get rid of
2. absorbent
3. too much
4. Sprinkle
Worksheet 7 1. spread
2. gradually
3. roll
4. mix
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N G
W O R S T R
T P A
R I D A S I D E
C C U
R E C I P E A
C L
O L
N Y
5. dissolve
6. grease
7. boil
8. rid
9. aside
10. sprinkle
Worksheet 8 1. dough devastation
2. dissolved evacuated
3. escape heed
4. Roll sprinkle
5. spirit unit
6. excess renewal
7. restored rescued
8. melted scared
9. scattered powdered
10. beaten boiled
Worksheet 9 1. humid
2. leave
3. scared
4. grease
5. fragrance
6. icon
7. small cake
8. boil
9. devastation
10. little by little
Worksheet 10
Across:
3. worst
5. rid
6. aside
7. recipe
Down:
1. notice
2. gradually
4. pace
8. icon
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Word List absorbent
advice
afraid
approach
aside
beaten
blog
boil
camp
damp
danger
devastation
dissolve
dough
effect
electricity
escape
evacuate
excess
flood
flour
followed
get rid of
gradually
grease
happen
heed
hurricane
icon
leave
liquid
mayor
melted
misses
mix
mixture
move
near
news
notice
pace
powdered
recipe
refrigeration
renewal
rescue
restored
rid
roll
safe
salt
save
scared
scattered
spirit
spread
sprinkle
square
stranded
stuck
sugar
suggestion
surface
surprisingly
teaching
unit
warning
water
worst