Soccer Injury Survivor

                  Each and every time it rains, I can feel it in my knee the day before. Because of the arthritis in my knee, I begin feeling a sore, uncomfortable feeling in my knee. As I have mentioned, I began playing soccer when I first began my college career at Farmingdale State College. After I graduated college, I still continued playing soccer on a women's soccer league. In the winter months when it was too cold outside to play soccer, my women's team played at KK Athletics in Farmingville. I had just returned from my cruise to Cozumel, Mexico. The next night, I played in a soccer game not knowing that game would change my life forever. I collided knee to knee with a player on the other team. The next thing I knew, I was lying on the ground with a gap where my knee cap used to be. I had never felt that kind of pain in my entire life. I was brought to Southside Hospital in Bayshore. The moment the nurse looked at my knee, he knew I fractured my patella bone. My orthopedic surgeon said that my knee was in very bad shape and that I needed two screws to hold my knee cap back together. After six months of physical therapy, I still play soccer today until my arthritis builds up causing unmanageable pain.

Vocabulary

1. Arthritis - (noun) Puffiness in one or more joints.

2. Sore- (adjective) Pain.

3. Mention (Mentioned)- (verb) To say something.

4. Cruise- (noun) A hotel on a ship.

5. Collide (Collided)- (verb) To hit or run into something.

6. Gap- (noun) Space.

7. Fracture (fractured)- (verb) To break a bone.

8. Patella Bone- (noun) Knee cap.

9. Orthopedic Surgeon- (noun) A doctor who specializes in surgeries with joints (knees, wrists, ankles, etc.)

10. Unmanageable- (adjective) Not able to be fixed.

Vocabulary Exercise

Directions- Unscramble the vocabulary words.

1. ericsu

2. gaenaumanbel

3. ttisahrri

4. rsoe

5. apg

6. tionmen

7. lidecol

8. tucrafer

9. telpala nobe

10. pdiceoorth geonsur

Grammar Point and Grammar Exercise

A synonym is a word that means the same as another, for example shut is a synonym for close.  Can you find the synonyms to your vocabulary words below?  Your vocabulary words are listed under row A and the synonyms are under row B.


Row A                                                                                    Row B

Arthritis                                                           To say or tell

Sore                                                                   A vacation

Mention (Mentioned)                                       Soreness

Cruise                                                                    Pain

Collide (Collided)                                               Break (a bone)

Gap                                                                        Knee cap

Fracture                                                                  a space

Patella Bone                                                           crash

Orthopedic Surgeon                                              doctor

Unmanageable                                                    uncontrollable