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B Answer the questions below. Discuss your answers with a partner.

What's your favorite play, movie, or dance? Who created it?

2 Do you lift weights for exercise? Why?

3 Are you a graceful person?

4 Do you like to go to modern art performances?

A Read the two sentences below aloud. What part of speech (noun, verb, Vocabulary Skill
adjective, adverb) is the word live? Homographs
live (this word rhymes with give): I live in Tokyo.
live (this words rhymes with dive): I love to go to performances and see Homographs are words
that are spelled the
artists live.
same but pronounced
differently. They
B · Read each pair of sentences. For each word in blue, write the part of also have different
speech. Then match the sentence with the correct definition.
meanings.
1 ( close: a near b the opposite of open )

The door is open. Please close it.
part of speech definition ___ _

I live very close to school.
part of speech ___ _ definition ___ _

)
2 ( wind: a turn b air moving

There is a strong wind today.
part of speech definition ___ _

For this clock to work, you must wind it.
part of speech definition ___ _

)
3 ( present: a gift bgive

I gave Tim a present for his birthday.
part of speech definition ___ _
Tomorrow, I must present my paper to the teacher.
part of speech definition ___ _

C Ask your teacher how the words in B are pronounced. Then read the
sentences aloud with a partner.
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