Chapter 14—Noun Clauses.pdf

Vocabulary Worksheets

by Rachel Spack Koch

Intermediate level

Azar Grammar Series : Fundamentals of English Grammar , 3rd edition

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Chapter 14—Noun Clauses

1. Reading: Home on the Range

2. Reading: No Home on the Range

3. Vocabulary practice

4. Vocabulary practice

5. Reading: Chief Seattle

6. Chief Seattle: Definitions

7. Vocabulary practice

8. Vocabulary practice

9. Which word belongs?

10. Vocabulary review

11. Word search game

Answer Key

Word List

Vocabulary Worksheets

Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3 rd Third Edition

Chapter 14: Nouns Clauses

Worksheet 1. Reading: Home on the Range

Did you know that cowboys write poetry? They do.

During all the time that cowboys have lived, they have

told stories as they sit around the campfire . Some of

these stories about the huge, wild American West have

turned into songs and poetry. Here are the words of one

old song and one new poem about the West.

Read the words of the song. Answer the questions that follow.

Home on the Range

(author unknown)

This verse of a traditional American song speaks about the glorious old West.

This song is known by almost every person in the United States:

Oh, give me a home

Where the buffalo roam

And the deer and the antelope play

Where seldom is heard

A discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day .

Home, home on the range

Where the deer and the antelope play…

The buffalo, the deer, and the antelope are three animals that live in the

West. (All three have the same forms in the singular and the plural.)

The song idealizes life on the prairies in days gone by.

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Circle T if the statement is true according to the song. Circle F if it is false.

1. T / F The words describe a home someone wants.

2. T / F The singer wants to live in a city.

3. T/ F Roam means to walk around , to wander .

4. T/ F The weather on the range is usually cloudy.

5. T/ F The singer doesn’t often hear discouraging words on the range.

6. T/ F A range is a large, grassy area where animals live.

7. T / F A prairie is a wide open area of fairly flat land in North America.

Vocabulary Worksheets

Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3 rd Third Edition

Chapter 14: Nouns Clauses

Vocabulary Worksheets

Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3 rd Third Edition

Chapter 14: Nouns Clauses

Worksheet 2. Reading: No Home on the Range

Cowboy poets often write beautiful words about their land, but some don’t.

This modern poet remembers what her world used to be like, and how it has

changed. She has put her thoughts into words.

Read the poem. See a picture of LaVonne, and answer the questions on the next

page.

No Home on the Range by LaVonne Houlton

Well, I spent the whole day Sunday

Out a-lookin' for the range ,

But I couldn't seem to find it,

For there's been a lot of change.

Where we used to pen the cattle

There's a string of new motels,

And just a bit beyond them

Stands a forest of oil wells .

Where I used to ride through sagebrush

From lunch time up to dark,

Now there's fenced-off land with signposts

Saying “Recreation Park.”

There's a freeway near the river

Where the cattle used to graze ,

And the blue sky of the prairie

Has been dimmed by smog and haze .

And I couldn't help but marvel

At this thing we call "progress,"

That can change a land of beauty

To a populated mess !

Definitions

a-lookin’

- a country way of saying looking.

beyond

- further away, past

dimmed

- became less bright

for

- a poetic way to say because

freeway

- large highways

graze

- eat grass as it is growing, used to talk about animals

haze

- a vapor, like fog

marve l

- be amazed by something

pen the cattle

- use a fence to keep the animals in one place

sagebrush

- a low plant that grows in the West

signposts

- posts along roads that have signs on them

Vocabulary Worksheets

Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3 rd Third Edition

Chapter 14: Nouns Clauses

Worksheet 2, page 2

Cowboy poet LaVonne Houlton has

lived in the West since childhood,

and has always loved the country

and horses. She spent much of her

youth in the Badlands of the

Dakotas, where she heard many

colorful stories of the West.

Complete the sentences with the correct word or phrase.

Is there intelligent life out there?

1. The author was looking for an old _____.

a. range

b. deer

2. She couldn’t find it because _____.

a. she got lost

b. there had been many changes

3. She found motels where _____.

a. the oil wells used to be b. the animals used to be fenced in

4. She used to ride through sagebrush, but now _____.

a. it is dark

b. it is a park

5. The cattle used to graze near _____.

a. the range

b. the river

6. But now, just beyond the place where the cattle used to graze, there are

_____.

a. oil wells

b. blue skies

7. The air is not clear anymore because there is a lot of _____.

a. fire

b. smog and haze

8. The author is unhappy because the land used to be _____, but it isn’t any

more.

a. beautiful

b. dim

A string of motels

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