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What a Story!

The following is a summary of terms (Key Vocabulary and Expressions) taught in this unit. Puzzles use these words as answers. (See Puzzle Corner in Resources.)
 
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KEY VOCABULARY

Nouns
Events
coincidence
disaster
emergency
lucky break
misfortune
mystery
predicament
triumph

Other
achievement
alien
ambulance
(job) applicant
bank
boat
bus
card
chimney
coast
copy
couple
crew
destruction
diver
(revolving) door
doorbell
driver
elevator
eye
(pet) fair
foot
flight
floor
freeway
gas
girlfriend
gold (bar)
help
highway
illusion
key
letter
(driver's) license
light
locker
mailbox
man
million
motorist
pain
passenger
pilot
pizza
plane
police
(coral) reef
robbery
shipwreck
shock
sky
snake
story
stuff
success
surprise
thief
town
trouble
trunk
turbulence
twin
wallet
whale
yacht

Pronoun
each other

Adjectives
all
another
apart
bad
connected
first
half
identical
lucky
puzzling
quick
random
same
strange
sudden
true
understood
unfavorable
unexplained
year-old
Verbs
Modal
be able to

Other
believe
break into
carry
come back
contain
cross
discover
drop
encounter
end
escape
film
fine
fly
forget
get (caught/locked out/stuck)
get in/out
guess
head for
hit
involve
leave
let
light up
(un)lock
lose
mail
make (a phone call/
    an announcement)
miss
open
pick up
put
reach
require
rescue
reunite
ring
rob
run out (of)
sail
settle down
shop
sink
speed
start up
stop
take off
work out

Adverbs
about
after
ago
around
away
finally
hardly
just
luckily
only
quite
separately
somewhat
suddenly

Prepositions
off
through

Conjunction
even though

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EXPRESSIONS

Reacting to a story
What happened?
Is that true?
Don't tell me!

Expressing concern
Oh no!

Sympathizing
I'm sorry. That's terrible!

Exclaiming
What a (pain/. . .)!

Agreeing
Exactly.

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