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Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to perfect basketball teams, controversial Supreme Court decisions, mind-reading devices, dyed animals and more. Each week, we’ll highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once students beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK incomparable (adjective) -- without an equal Why it matters: The Baylor women's basketball team was the first in…

Here at the Flocab HQ, whenever we see an email from JoDee Luna--an innovative educator in Lancaster, California--we know it's going to be good. Luna is always dreaming up creative and fun ways to get her students involved, and she recently sent us this great lesson plan to go along with our Word Up vocabulary song, "How To Be An Entrepreneur." This lesson gives students experience writing application letters and interviewing, while also teaching 15 vocabulary words. See some student examples from Luna's class at the bottom. We liked one so much that we hung it up on our office…

Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to presidential visits, statement-making representatives, cheating scandals, deep sea dives, box office hits and more. Each week, we’ll highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once students beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK impoverished (adjective) -- reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken Why it matters: President Obama, on an official visit to…