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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Meanings 1 57 Views


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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Meanings 1. Choose the words that would give the sentence an "insecure" or a "confident" tone.

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Thank you we sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by security blankets Unfortunately they don't do

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as good a job of protecting your home as their

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name suggests Choose the words that would give the sense

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and insecure or a confident tone Every time i have

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to talk in front of the class i immediately feel

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what And here a potential answer a little point Cool

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Okay so we have four words and we want to

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know which ones would read as insecure and which would

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read as confident well let's think about how you carry

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yourself when you're confident your heads held high walk with

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a proud strut unless you're dragging your security blanket when

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we're confident we always demonstrate poised and we behave in

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a cool manner if we were troubled or uncertain in

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front of our class well that would show wouldn't it

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certainly wouldn't smack of confidence no matter what type of

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fancy tie you were wearing that day Come on be

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real so yeah troubled in uncertain are our insecure words

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while poison kool are are confident words bacon which we

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feel confident those burglars won't be back to mess with

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Us again On after they met up with our guard 00:01:09.306 --> [endTime] dog What Mmm Yummy

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