Cycle 1 (Water Challenges)
Cycle Content
Week 1
- Writing Academic English:
- Part 2: Writing an Essay, Chapter 5 Chronological Order: Process Essays
- Part 3: Sentence Structure, Chapter 10: Types of Sentences
- Some online resources
Week 2
- New Hello:
- Literature: King Lear Act 1 (5 scenes)
- Some online resources
Week 3
- New Hello:
- Unit 1: Staying healthy
- Unit 2: Eating around the world
- Grammarway 4:
- Unit 5: Modal verbs
- Unit 3: Comparisons
- Some online resources
** All online resources can be found in the cycle file.
Cycle Vocabulary
Week 1
Session 1
Word | Meaning | Meaning in English | Equals | Notes |
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diarrhea | إسهال | |||
provision | توفير | (n. of provide) | ||
contemplate | تفكر / تأمل | |||
flee | هرب / فر | |||
contaminated | ملوث | |||
hurricane | إعصار | |||
dismay | الفزع | |||
demonstration | شرح / برهنة | |||
runoff | جريان المياه | |||
sewage | مياه المجاري | |||
failsafe technology | تقنية آمنة من الفشل | |||
perpetuating | يديم / يخلّد | |||
sterile | معقم - عاقر | |||
desalinate | تحلية |
Session 2
Word | Meaning | Meaning in English | Equals | Notes |
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aquifer | طبقة المياه الجوفية | |||
brine | محلول ملحي | |||
confluence | التقاء نهرين | |||
drizzle | رذاذ / قطرات | |||
effluent | تصريف (المياه) | |||
fluvial | نهري | |||
impermeable | غير منفذة | |||
meander | تعرج / تلوى | |||
precipitation | ترسب | |||
slush | طين - ثلج في مرحلة الذوبان | |||
waterlogged | مشبع بالمياه |
Week 2
Session 1
Word | Meaning | Meaning in English | Equals | Notes |
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erosion | تعرية / تآكل | |||
weathering | التجوية (التعرض لعوامل الجو) | |||
wear away | to gradually disappear or to cause (something) to gradually disappear or become thinner, smaller, etc. | erode | ||
desertification | التصحر | |||
culprit | مجرم / متهم | |||
unsustainable | غير مستدام | |||
industrialization | تصنيع | |||
labor-intensive | صناعة ثقيلة (العمل الذي يتطلب عمالة كثيرة) | |||
affluent | غني - وافر | |||
wash away | to carry (something) away by the movement of water | |||
amplify | يضخم / يوسع / يبالغ | |||
devastating | مدمر / مخرب | |||
deforestation | إزالة الغابات | |||
integrity | نزاهة - كمال | |||
measures | إجراءات - مقاييس |
Session 2
Word | Meaning | Meaning in English | Equals | Notes |
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linguistic | لغوي | |||
pursuing | ملاحقة / مطاردة | |||
make puns | يلعب بالكلام | tell a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings | ||
doodle | رسم عابث | |||
intriguing | مثير للاهتمام |
Week 3
Session 1
Word | Meaning | Meaning in English | Equals | Notes |
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infection | عدوى | |||
perform | يؤدي | |||
react | يتفاعل | |||
technique | تقنية / أسلوب | |||
severe | شديد / حاد | |||
bystander | المتفرغ (متفرج غير متدخل بشىء) | |||
breathlessly | لاهث | in a way that involves gasping for breath, typically due to exertion | ||
plead | الترافع (في محكمة) - تضرع | present and argue - make an emotional appeal | ||
crisis | مصيبة | |||
crises | مصائب | (plural of crisis) | ||
eminent | بارز / مشهور / مرموق | |||
psychosis | هواس | a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality | ||
impend | وشيك | |||
intervene | تدخل | |||
streetwise | able to deal successfully with dangerous or difficult situations in big towns or cities where there is a lot of crime - reflective of modern urban life, especially that of urban youth | |||
impatient | قليل الصبر | |||
inpatient | a patient who stays for one or more nights in a hospital for treatment | |||
psychiatric | نفسية | relating to mental illness or its treatment | ||
agitated | مضطرب / منفعل | |||
empathetic | متعاطف | |||
alley | زقاق / حارة | |||
vicious | وحشي / شرير | |||
stereotype | الصورة النمطية | |||
stereotypical | النمطية | |||
petrify | تحجر - تسمر في مكانه (من الخوف) | |||
assault | يعتدي / يتهجم | |||
rumor | شائعة (إشاعة) | a currently circulating story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth | ||
disproportionately | بشكل غير متناسب | |||
perpetrator | مرتكب الجريمة | a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act | ||
mnemonic | a device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something | |||
hallucination | هلوسة | |||
accreditation | الاعتماد الاكاديمي | |||
triage | (in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties | |||
stigma | a visible sign or characteristic of a disease - a mark of disgrace or dishonor | (plural: stigmas / stigmata) |
Session 2
Word | Meaning | Meaning in English | Equals | Notes |
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get together | يتجمع / يلتقى | |||
amount | كمية | |||
traditional | تقليدي | |||
prepare | يعد / يجهز | |||
serve | يخدم | |||
occasion | مناسبة / فرصة | |||
celebrate | يحتفل | |||
newfound | recently discovered or established | |||
tease | يضايق / يثير | |||
primarily | في المقام الأول | for the most part | mainly | |
disrespectful | عديم الاحترام | |||
unhygienic | غير صحي | not clean or sanitary | ||
cuisine | المطبخ (ليس المكان) | a style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment | ||
every nook and corner [idiom] | every place - every part of | |||
slurp | eat or drink (something) with a loud sloppy sucking noise | |||
immensely | بشكل هائل | |||
culinary | (مطبخيّ) | (of or for cooking) | ||
assemble | جمعية / تجمع | |||
chopstick | each of a pair of small, thin, tapered sticks of wood, ivory, or plastic, held together in one hand and used as eating utensils, especially by the Chinese, the Japanese, and other people in eastern Asia | |||
offend | يسيء | |||
offensive | هجومي / عدواني - مهين | |||
funeral | جنازة | |||
beverage | شراب (غير الماء) | a drink, especially one other than water | ||
saucer | صحن الفنجان | a shallow dish, typically having a circular indentation in the center, on which a cup is placed | ||
stir | يقلّب (يمزج بالتحريك) | |||
drumstick | عصا الطبل | a stick, typically with a shaped or padded head, used for beating a drum | ||
customary | عرفي / معتاد | |||
pepper | فلفل | |||
insult | يسب / يهين |
From Grammarway 4
Unit 5
Unit 3