Online Class Notes (Nick)

Vocabulary

Scooby-Doo – a mystery cartoon for kids with four friends

Paddle / Row – to move a boat through the water using a long stick with a flat end (called a paddle or an oar)
Paddle – a long flat stick that you hold off the side of a boat to make it move
Oar – basically the same as a paddle, but attached to the side of the boat

Run aground – for a boat to go into water that is too shallow and to get stuck
e.g. Daisy, if you don’t come farther out, you’ll run aground and get stuck!

Nightmare – a dream that is scary or stresful
e.g. Daisy doesn’t want to study anymore, but sometimes she still has nightmares about being unprepared for an exam.

Multiple choice – you get a question and have (usually) four choices, abcd

Directing Traffic – when a police office stands in the middle of the road and tells cars which to go

Wristband – usually flat and to indicate some status (ability to swim, that you have paid to enter a concert, that you are over 21 and can buy alcoholic beverages)
Bracelet – something you wear on your wrist for purposes of decoration/fashion

Wading – walking in water when you can still stand on the bottom

Breathalyzer – a machine that you can blow into to measure the alcohol in your blood to determine whether you are within the legal limit

It cuts both ways – something can be used as evidence for arguments on both sides of an issue
e.g. My friend kept a breathalyzer in his car, which is both responsible, and sort of worrying if he needed to check his blood alcohol often enough to own one… I guess that cuts both ways!

DUI – driving under the influence (of drugs)
DWI – driving while intoxicated

Grammar

I try to make my kayak as close to the shore as possible – I tried to keep my kayak

How far can you go to the water – How far out can you go into the water