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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 2—Past Time

1. Reading: Giant Pandas

2. Vocabulary practice


4. Reading: The Wolong Nature Reserve


6. Which word belongs?

7. Analogies

8. Opposites

9. Word search game

Answer Key

Word List

Vocabulary Worksheets Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3

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Chapter 2: Past Time

Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Permission granted to reproduce or adapt for classroom use.

Worksheet 1. Reading: Giant Pandas

Read the passage about the pandas in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Then

answer the questions.

Giant Pandas

Tian Tian and Mei Xiang are the National Zoo's

second pair of giant pandas. Both were born in

China, and they came to the National Zoo in

2000. That’s Tian Tian on the left, and Mei Xiang

on the right. It is hard to tell the adult giant

pandas apart, but they have a few differences:

Tian Tian, the male, was born in August, 1997. His name means "more and

more." Tian Tian has black "knee socks." The black band across his shoulders

narrows in the middle. His eye patches have the shape of kidney beans, and

he has two black dots across the bridge of his nose. In spring 2007, he

weighed about 275 pounds.

Mei Xiang, the female, was born in July, 1998. Her name means "beautiful

fragrance." She has black hip-high "stockings" extending up her hind legs,

and the black band across her shoulders is wider in the middle than Tian's. Her

eye patches are oval, and a pale black band runs across the bridge of her nose.

In spring 2007, she weighed about 230 pounds.

The first offspring of the two pandas was born early in the

morning on July 9, 2005. His name is Tai Shan, and it means

“peaceful mountain.” At his first physical examination by the

zoo veterinarians, he weighed 1.82 pounds and had a body

length of 12 inches. In late April 2007, he weighed 125 pounds.

This photo on the left is of little Tai Shan and his mother.


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Worksheet 1 (page 2)

Circle T if the statement is true. Circle F if the statement is false.

1. T / F Tian Tian and Mei Xiang are pandas.

2. T / F They were born at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

3. T / F Tian Tian is older than Mei Xiang.

4. T / F Tian Tian has a black band across the bridge of his nose.

5. T / F Mei Xiang has black “socks” on her front legs.

6. T / F Mei Xiang has oval eye patches.

7. T / F A new baby panda was born at the National Zoo in 2005.

8. T / F In the spring of 2007, the baby panda weighed 225 pounds.


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Worksheet 2. Vocabulary practice

Complete the sentences. Write the correct word from the word pool in the blank space.

beans live

differences pandas

dots shoulders

eyes weigh

knees widens

1. Tian Tian and Tai Shan are ___________________________ from China.

2. To tell them apart means to see ____________________________

between them.

3. He was born means that he began to ____________________________.

4. He has black knee socks means that his legs are black from his feet to his

___________________________.

5. Your _________________________ are the parts at the top of your arms.

6. Narrows is the opposite of ____________________________.

7. A patch is a small area of something, different from the area around it.

Tian Tian has black patches around his ____________________.

8. People normally have two kidneys. They look like this:

There is a vegetable with the shape of a kidney. These are

called kidney _______________________________.

9. Some round marks are __________________________. Tian has two

black ones across the bridge of his nose.

10. Adult pandas __________________________ more than 200 pounds.


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Choose the correct completions.

sock stocking hip

1. The name Mei Xiang means a beautiful (view / fragrance). This word means

that something smells good.

2. People have two hips. Mei Xiang has black (socks /stockings) that go from her

feet to her hips.

3. Hind legs are the legs in the (front / back) of an animal’s body.

4. Oval objects have a shape like (wheels / eggs).

5. A black band is a black (dot / line).

6. Pyramids are (wider / taller) at the bottom than at the top.

7. The imaginary line that goes around the (middle / end) of the earth is the

equator.

8. Offspring means a (child / parent).

9. A pale color is a (light / dark) color.

10. England is (across / behind) the English Channel from France.

11. Veterinarians give physical examinations to (people / animals).

12. The Mississippi River is 2,300 miles (2,552 kilometers) in (size / shape).


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Worksheet 4, page 1. Reading: The Wolong Nature Reserve

Read the article about the Wolong Nature Reserve. Then answer the questions.

The Wolong Nature Reserve

In the mid-twentieth century, the pandas of the world were in danger of

becoming extinct. When the Chinese government recognized this sad fact, it

created a special place to protect the pandas: the Wolong Nature Reserve. This

is a large area in the south of China. It is in the area where all the pandas of the

world now live, except for those in zoos in a few large cities. Pandas used to live

throughout East Asia, but now they live only in this part of China.

Their natural habitat is smaller than it used to be and the panda’s main food –

bamboo – is not as plentiful as it used to be.

The panda’s habitat shrank because people were cutting down the forests

where the pandas lived, and using the trees for wood. People were also changing

the forests into land for farms.

The forests used to cover a vast area, but a lot of the land was no longer forest.

The pandas were living in patches of forests, between farms and areas where

people were cutting down all the trees.

Now on the Wolong reserve -- and other reserves like it -- the

government protects the forests. And here, scientists

encourage the breeding of pandas, and take excellent care of

newborn pandas. When the famous Wolong reserve started in

1963, pandas were nearly extinct. Today, the population of

pandas living in the wild is about 1,600.

Wolong is the birthplace of Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, the two pandas that made a

new home at Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo.

shrank = the past tense of shrink


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Worksheet 4, page 2

Choose the correct answers.

1. What is this passage about?

a. Protecting pandas.

b. Capturing pandas.

2. What happened to the panda population in the 20th century?

a. The panda population grew.

b. The panda population shrank.

3. Which sentence is true?

a. All pandas in their natural habitat are in China now.

b. All pandas in their natural habitat are in several Asian countries now.

4. Why did the pandas’ habitat get smaller?

a. People were cutting down the bamboo forests.

b. People were eating more and more bamboo.

5. What does “The government encouraged the breeding of pandas” mean?

a. The government fed the pandas bread and vegetables because bamboo was

not plentiful.

b. The government helped the pandas to be healthy and to have baby pandas.

6. Which sentence is true about the Wolong Nature Reserve?

a. Only a few pandas used to live in the reserve, but now there are many.

b. The panda population at the Wolong Nature Reserve is shrinking.


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Choose the word or phrase that means the same as the word or phrase

in bold.

1. Dinosaurs used to roam the earth, but now they are extinct.

a. don’t exist any longer b. are living today c. are sick

2. Television began to be popular in the mid-twentieth

century.

a. around 1930 b. around 1950 c. around 2000

3. The government created several new libraries, parks, and roads.

a. bought b. destroyed c. made

4. Jan didn’t recognize her sister’s serious problem.

a. like b. understand c. care about

5. An umbrella protects us from the rain.

a. keeps us safe b. hides c. warms

6. The store is open every day except Sunday.

a. including b. sometimes c. but not

7. People throughout the world use the Internet.

a. in special places b. all over c. in space

8. The ocean is the natural habitat of whales.

a. home b. water c. land

9. My jeans shrank because I washed them in hot water!

a. became white b. became bigger c. became

smaller

10. The forests in many parts of the world are becoming smaller.

a. areas with many trees b. farms c. distances

11. Antarctica has vast areas of ice.

a. cold b. white c. very large

12. Sue is no longer a child. Now she is eighteen years old.

a. not anymore b. not small now c. not tall now


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Worksheet 6. Which word belongs?

Write the word from the word pool that belongs in each group.

dot forest habitat nose offspring shoulder smell stocking

1. farm, garden, _________forest_____________.

2. sock, shoe, ____________________________.

3. hip, knee, ____________________________.

4. band, patch, ____________________________.

5. perfume, fragrance, _____________________.

6. eye, mouth, ____________________________.

7. son, daughter, ____________________________.

8. place, home, ____________________________.


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Worksheet 7. Analogies

Complete the analogies with words from the word pool.

a. dot

b. forest

c. hip

d. length

e. pair

f. second

g. narrow

h. wood

1. A flower grows in a garden like bamboo grows in a ___b____.

2. An artist works with paint like a carpenter works with _______.

3. At the top of your arm you have your shoulder, just like at the top of

your leg you have your _______.

4. An oval shape is like an egg, and a round shape is like a _______.

5. The opposite of long is short, and the opposite of wide is _______.

6. One of something is a single, and two of something is a _______.

7. One in a series is the first, and two in a series is the _______.

8. The newborn baby is eight and a half pounds in weight and 19 inches in

_______.


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Worksheet 8. Opposites

Complete the sentences in Column A with the letter of the correct word or phrase

from Column B.

Column A Column B

1. The opposite of sad is __i__.

a. including

2. The opposite of vast is ____.

b. get bigger

3. The opposite of female is ____.

c. right

4. The opposite of except is ____.

d. small

5. The opposite of shrink is ____.

e. dark

6. The opposite of create is ____.

f. die

7. The opposite of danger is ____.

g. safety

8. The opposite of be born is ____.

h. destroy

9. The opposite of left is ____.

i. happy

10. The opposite of pale is ____.

j. male


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Worksheet 9. Word search game

This puzzle contains 7 words from Chapter 2. A word can be horizontal (across), vertical

(up and down), or diagonal (on a slope). Find the words and circle them. The clues under

the puzzle will help you. The gray shading shows the first letter of a word.

1. Very big

2. Pandas’ food

3. The natural home of a species

4. Animals have front legs and _______ legs.

5. A black and white animal similar to a bear

6. More than enough

7. Become smaller

T S A V D B L T P

D V M Z Q V A A L

H I N D G T M D E

Q B D L I W S N N

X Q A B W H Z A T

K X A M R B K P I

J H P I B L N L F

W X N F W O R L U

V K L K B F O K L


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Answer Key

Worksheet 1 1. T

2. F

3. T

4. F

5. F

6. T

7. T

8. F

Worksheet 2 1. pandas

2. differences

3. live

4. knees

5. shoulders

6. widens

7. eyes

8. beans

9. dots

10. weigh

Worksheet 3 1. fragrance

2. stockings

3. back

4. eggs

5. line

6. wider

7. middle

8. child

9. light

10. across

11. animals

12. size


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Worksheet 4 1. a. Protecting pandas

2. b. The panda population shrank.

3. a. All pandas are in their natural habitat

in China now.

4. a. people were cutting down the

bamboo forests.

5. b. The government helped the pandas

to be healthy and to have baby

pandas.

6. a. Only a few pandas used to live in the

reserve, but now there are many.

Worksheet 5 1. a. don’t exist any longer

2. b. around 1950

3. c. made

4. b. understand

5. a. keeps us safe

6. c. but not

7. b. all over

8. a. home

9. c. became smaller

10. a. areas with many trees

11. c. very large

12. a. not anymore

Worksheet 6

1. forest

2. stocking

3. shoulder

4. dot

5. smell

6. nose

7. offspring

8. habitat


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T S A V D B L T P

D V M Z Q V A A L

H I N D G T M D E

Q B D L I W S N N

X Q A B W H Z A T

K X A M R B K P I

J H P I B L N L F

W X N F W O R L U

V K L K B F O K L

Worksheet 7 1. b. forest

2. h. wood

3. c. hip

4. a. dot

5. g. narrow

6. e. pair

7. f. second

8. d. length

Worksheet 8

1. i. happy

2. d. small

3. j. male

4. a. including

5. b. get bigger

6. h. destroy

7. g. safety

8. f. die

9. c. right

10. e. dark

Worksheet 9 1. vast

2. bamboo

3. habitat

4. hind

5. panda

6. plentiful

7. shrink


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Word List

across

all over

animal

area

around

back

bamboo

bean

become

child

cut (down)

dark

destroy

die

difference

dot

egg

exist

eye

forest

fragrance

front

government

habitat

happy

healthy

hind

hip

home

including

keep

knee

leg

length

light

line

live

male

middle

narrow

natural

not any more

offspring

pair

people

plentiful

population

protect

reserve

safety

second

shoulder

shrink

size

small

smell

stocking

understand

vast

weigh

widen

wood

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