Listen to the audio. Repeat the sentences below to practice your pronunciation and speaking skills.

1. Stonehenge is an ancient place.

2. Her father created a new bicycle.

3. Jimmy defeated Rick in the game.

4. Are you a professional writer?

5. Ken originally lived in Columbia.

The suffix –ship at the end of a noun shows that a group of people share something in common.

Try to finish the chart finding the correct form of the word.

After you finished the chart above, try to fill in the blanks with the correct words.

Each sentence will take both forms of the noun.

1. An American citizen has citizenship, so he or she gets an American passport.
2. ___________ of the club get a(n) ___________ card.
3. The ___________ won the ___________.
4. The ___________ is between Tom and his ___________. They work together to make more money.
5. My best ___________ and I have a very good ___________. People think we are sisters.

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Answer the True or False questions. Do not look back at the reading!

Look at the two articles and compare them.

What things are similar in the lives of the two people? What is different?

Fill in the blanks with the new words.

The words below are in the passages about Oscar de la Hoya and Michelle Kwan.

• Scan through the passages “Oscar de la Hoya” and “Michelle Kwon” to find out what part of speech (P.S.) the words and phrases are. • Write the part of speech on the line beside the new vocabulary word. • Read just the part of the passage and use the context clues in the passage to match the word with the correct definition. Do not use your dictionary!

Questions:

What sport is it?

1. This sport is on a court. Two or four people use racquets to hit a ball.
2. This sport is on a field. People kick a black & white ball with their feet.
3. This sport is on a court. Players use their hands and an orange ball.
4. This sport is in a pool. People use their bodies to try to go very fast.
5. This sport is on a diamond. People use bats to hit a little white ball.
6. This sport is in the ocean. People try to stand on boards.
7. This sport is on ice. People hit a black disk into a net with a stick.
8. This sport is in a ring. People hit each other until one person falls down.

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Fill in the blanks with the new words. Use each word only one time.