energetic gentle noisy warm-hearted thankful gleeful cautious humble calm hard-working strange rude unhelpful worried glad talkative bright witty happy polite shy kind quiet sad affable stable practical charming tidy cruel unfriendly mean glum generous cheeky lazy vain superstitious easy-going powerful curious sociable charitable |
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Activity 12. Use your dictionary to find the silent letters in the words.
Circle the silent letter in each word.
honest comb palm gnome | knee salmon psyche pneumonia | autumn island knob fasten |
Activity 13. Rhyming pairs. Re-arrange the following 30 words so
That you have 15 rhyming pairs.
1. love
2. prove
3. farm
4. spite
5. charm
6. wove
7. fate
8. grow
9. blue
10. chain
11. bough
12. through
13. now
14. weight
15. plot
16. move
17. rough
18. done
19. form
20. cove
21. warm
22. dove
23. height
24. new
25. true
26. run
27. muff
28. lot
29. plane
30. know
Activity 14. Fill in the gaps and read the rhymes.
Activity 15. Read the words in bold, find the difference between them,
Translate the sentences.
Perfect your perfect English!
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
6. Since there is no time like the present, I think it's time to present the present.
7. A sea-bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
8. As he made his bow, his bow tie fell off.
9. I did not object to the object.
10. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
11. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
12. They weren't close enough to close the door.
13. The buck does funny things when does are present.
14. A seamstress and a sewer fell into a sewer.
15. To help with the planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
16. The wind was too strong for them to wind the sail.
17. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
18. On seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
19. They had to subject the subject to series of tests.
20. He moped when someone stole his moped.
Activity 16. Read homophones and their explanation.
A. air what we breathe beach the sea shore
heir one entitled to a dead beech a tree
person’s property
allowed permitted boy a male child
aloud loud enough to buoy a floating marker for ships
be heard
brake a device to check cereal wheat, barley and
speed oats are all cereals
break to cause something serial a story or film
to come into pieces appearing in parts
check to stop; a squared coarse rough
pattern
cheque an order to a bank to course a track; an onward
pay money movement
currant a dried grape foul filthy; wicked; vile
current a flow of water, air fowl a bird
B. Choose the correct word from thepair above to complete each sentence.
1. cereal serial Cornflakes are his favourite _____.
2. currant current These _____ buns are delicious.
3. foul fowl Fulham were awarded a free-kick for a ____ on their goalkeeper.
4. air heir Prince Charles is _____ to the throne.
5. brake break New blocks had to be fitted to the front ____ of the bicycle.