Mr. Bradshaw, Xinmin: G4 A1 Additional Resources

Week 17 Vocab Definitions – Talking Walls: Art for the People

1. encourage (v.): to give hope, help or support to someone

2. native (adj.): relating to a person’s country of birth

3. settle (v.): to go and live in a place

4. social (adj.): relating to society and living together

5. local (adj.): having to do with a particular place

6. expression (n.): the act of saying or showing what you think

7. support (n.): to agree or encourage someone

8. essay (n.): a short piece of writing about a topic

9. factual (adj.): true, using facts

10. selection (n.): something that has been chosen

11. immigrant (n.): a person who moves to another country from his or her home country

12. promise (n.): saying that you will certainly do something

13. include (v.): to have as a part of something

14. speak your mind (phr.v.): to say what a person thinks

15. canvas (n.): a type of heavy and strong cloth

16. community (n.): a place where a group of people live

17. celebration (n.): a special social event when you celebrate something

18. depict (v.): to show or describe something in a painting or story

19. democracy (n.): a government in which power is held by the people

20. neighborhood (n.): an area of a town that is around a person’s home

21. provide (v.): to give what is needed

22. seamstress (n.): a woman whose job is sewing and making clothes

23. El Salvador (pro. n.): a country in Central America

24. create (v.): to make something new

25. interpret (v.): to explain the meaning of something

Talking Walls: Art for the People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w22bZVnoweE

final syllables-tion-ion-ture-ive-ize

combining sentences

dictionaries

alphabetical order

Mr. Bradshaw, Xinmin