First School Dictionary

Barry and Anita Scholes

Collins First School Dictionary Skills

First published 2001

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Author: Barry and Anita ScholesEditor: Mitzi BalesDesign: Grasshopper Design CompanyIllustrator: Stephanie Strickland

Contents

Introduction 4

Collins First School Dictionary Skills and the

National Literacy Strategy 7

Collins First School Dictionary Skills and the

5–14 Guidelines 9

Activity 1 What is a dictionary?

Activity 2 The alphabet

Activity 3 Alphabetical order

Activity 4 Alphabet fun

Activity 5 Alphabetical order: the first letter (1)

Activity 6 Alphabetical order: the first letter (2)

Activity 7 Colour word search

Activity 8 A to Z

Activity 9 Similar

Activity 10 Different

Activity 11 Anagrams

Activity 12 Rhyme time

Activity 13 The right spelling (1)

Activity 14 The right spelling (2)

Activity 15 Building words

Activity 16 More than one

Activity 17 Verbs

Activity 18 Sounds similar (1)

Activity 19 Sounds similar (2)

Activity 20 Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check

Activity 21 Word fun

Activity 22 Animal word search

Activity 23 Musical instruments

Activity 24 Word steps

Activity 25 Quiz time (1)

Activity 26 Quiz time (2)

Activity 27 Making a word bank

Activity 28 Collecting words

Answers 38

Introduction

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Collins Dictionary Skills

Collins Dictionary Skills provide all-in-one support for developingdictionary skills. Each Skills book provides:

● photocopiable activity sheets, differentiated for a wide range of abilities

● clear teaching notes and answers

● lesson planning charts that match each activity to National LiteracyStrategy objectives and Scottish 5–14 Guidelines.

For maximum support, use each Collins Dictionary Skills book with itsmatching Collins Children’s Dictionary.

Collins Dictionaries – for children aged 2 to 11+

Developed in consultation with teachers, children’s lexicographers,educational advisors and literacy, numeracy and science specialists,these clear, colourful dictionaries have been written and designed tosupport today’s Primary classroom requirements.

Collins Children’s Dictionaries are carefully streamlined to provide adictionary for each key level of literacy development. Because Collins’ rangeof dictionaries progressively builds skills, children will be able to moveconfidently between levels and become independent dictionary users.

Children need to acquire the ability to use a dictionary successfully andindependently. Collins Children’s Dictionaries have been designed toprovide all the support that children need by means of:

● clear, easy-to-use design

● child-oriented definitions and examples

● progressive building of key skills as children move from level to level.

The Collins Children’s Dictionary range:

● builds essential dictionary skills progressively, step by step, from beginnerto advanced

● supports today’s curriculum needs from the Early Learning Goals to SATs

● incorporates special features to encourage independent learning, such asannotated introductions, theme pages, grammar help, word banks andword histories

● has been rigorously researched and trialled with teachers and pupils

● has been compiled by a team of experts.

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Introduction

About Collins First School Dictionary

Collins First School Dictionary is designed for children aged 5 and over.It is full of helpful and educationally sound features, including:

● Colour headwords and guidewords, plus an alphabet line on everypage for easy reference.

● Big letters at the top of each page for each new letter.

● Clear, child-friendly definitions. These are numbered if there is morethan one meaning.

● Example sentences showing the headword used in context.

● Illustrations to help the user read the word and understand its meaning.

● Plurals of nouns, tenses of verbs and comparative forms of adjectiveswith their appropriate headword.

● Where to look for more information. Some definitions tell the user tolook at another headword or at the pages at the back of the dictionary forfurther information.

● Collins First School Dictionary has a special Word Wizard sectionat the back. It has picture pages, number banks, games and Internetadvice. The picture pages include labelled illustrations on topics such as parts of the body, clothes, position words, shape and colours.

● Grammar pages provide help with understanding pronouns andquestion words.

● Word banks and number banks give help in learning and spelling time words, synonyms and antonyms, the seasons, measures, numbersand much-used words.

About Collins First School Dictionary Skills

Activity sheets

The activity sheets help you to use the Collins First School Dictionary as anactive literacy resource. They provide a wide range of activities to help Y1and Y2 (P2 and P3) children develop basic dictionary skills. They give you,the teacher, a variety of strategies to support literacy objectives.

The activity sheets are also suitable as a focus for class teaching, for use with a small group, or for individual work in class or at home. The range ofactivities enables you to select appropriate activity sheets to meet the needsof individual children.


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Introduction

The activity sheets are grouped in six sections:

Using a dictionaryActivity sheet 1 helps children to understand the functions of a dictionary.

Alphabetical orderActivity sheets 2 to 7 support children in gaining alphabet skills, reinforcethese skills and give practice in finding words in the dictionary.

Dictionary organizationActivity sheets 8 to 10 cover the alphabetic listing of headwords and otherinformation provided in the dictionary, such as synonyms and antonyms.

SpellingActivity sheets 11 to 20 show how a dictionary can be used to checkspelling. They cover rhyming words, vowel phonemes, compound wordsand plurals. Activity sheet 20 encourages the use of the Look, Say, Cover,Write, Check strategy.

Dictionary games and quizzesActivity sheets 21 to 26 offer a variety of dictionary games and quizzes to consolidate the children’s understanding of the various functions of a dictionary.

Word banksActivity sheets 27 and 28 encourage the children to collect and classify ingroups words of special interest. Activity sheet 28 may be used at any timethat word banks are explored.

Curriculum planning charts

Time-saving curriculum planning charts are provided for easy reference, tosupport you when planning your lesson. The National Literacy Strategy chartmatches Collins First School Dictionary Skills to word, text and sentence levelobjectives for Y1 and Y2. The Scottish 5–14 Guidelines chart matches Collins First School Dictionary Skills to P1 and P2 attainment targets at levels A and B.


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Collins First School Dictionary Skills

and the National Literacy Strategy

Activity sheet NLS objective

Using a dictionary

1 What is a dictionary? Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;

understanding the functions of a dictionary Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 16

Alphabetical order

2 The alphabetYear 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2

filling in missing letters

3 Alphabetical orderYear 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2

letters after, before and between

4 Alphabet funYear 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2

putting letters into alphabetical order

5 Alphabetical order: the first letter (1)Year 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2

putting words into alphabetical order

6 Alphabetical order: the first letter (2)Year 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2

putting words into alphabetical order

7 Colour word searchYear 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2

putting colours into alphabetical order

Dictionary organization

8 A to Z Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;

understanding how words are sorted Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 16

9 SimilarYear 2, Term 3, Word level objective 10

synonyms

10 Different Year 2, Term 2, Word level objective 11;

antonyms Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 24

Spelling

11 Anagrams Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;

checking spelling Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 19

12 Rhyme timeYear 1, Term 1, Word level objective 10

words with the same sound and spelling

13 The right spelling (1) Year 1, Term 3, Word level objective 1;

long vowel phonemes; ai, ay, a-e; ee,ea; oa, o-e, ow Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 1

14 The right spelling (2) Year 1, Term 3, Word level objective 1;

long vowel phonemes: ie, y, i-e, igh; oo, u-e, ew, ue Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 3

15 Building words Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 7;

compound words Year 2, Term 2, Word level objective 4

16 More than one Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 8;

plurals Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 11

17 Verbs Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 6;

-s, -ed, and -ing endings Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 7

18 Sounds similar (1)Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 3

ow and ou; oi and oy; short oo and u

19 Sounds similar (2)Year 2, Term 1, Word level objective 2

air, are, ere and ear

20 Look, Say, Cover, Write, CheckYear 3, Term1, Word level objective 7

how to learn spellings

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Activity sheet NLS objective

Dictionary games and quizzes

21 Word fun Year 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2;

crossword and alphabet code Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17

22 Animal word searchYear 3, Term 2, Word level objective 19

spelling

23 Musical instruments Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20;

finding word, checking spelling Year 3, Term 2, Word level objective 19

24 Word steps Year 1, Term 1, Word level objective 2;

steps crossword Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17

25 Quiz time (1) Year 1, Term 1, Text level objective 20;

dictionary quiz Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17

26 Quiz time (2) Year 1, Term 1, Text level objective 20;

dictionary quiz Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17

Word banks

27 Making a word bank Year 1, Term 2, Text level objective 20,

how to make a word bank Word level objective 10;

Year 2, Term 2, Text level objective 17

28 Collecting words Year 1, Term 2, Word level objective 10;

template for children’s personal word bank Year 1, Term 3, Word level objective 8;

Year 2, Term 2, Word level objective 10;

Year 2, Term 3, Word level objective 9


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Skills focus: using a dictionary Collins First School Dictionary Skills © HarperCollinsPublishers 2001

What is a dictionary?

A dictionary is a book that lists words in alphabetical

order. It tells you how to spell them and what they mean.

Alphabetical order

1. What letter does the word abacus begin with? ___________

Now look in your dictionary.

2. What is the first word beginning

with b in the dictionary? _________________________________________

3. What is the first word

beginning with j? _________________________________________


beginning with t? _________________________________________


beginning with z? _________________________________________

Name _________________________________________________________

What is an abacus?

The alphabet

1. Fill in the missing letters of the alphabet.

2. Write the alphabet here.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Alphabetical order

1. Write each missing letter.

e f g ______ l m n ______ ______ r s t ______ v w x

b ______ d e h i ______ k m ______ o p

2. Write the letter which comes after each letter below:

k ______ w ______ t ______ h ______ p ______

e ______ c ______ i ______ r ______ u ______

3. Write the letter which comes before each letter below:

______ c ______ m ______ j ______ y ______ g

______ v ______ f ______ x ______ o ______ t

4. Write the letter which comes between the two

letters below:

b and d ______ n and p ______ f and h ______ v and x ______

k and m ______ x and z ______ s and u ______ p and r ______

h and j ______ t and v ______

Name _________________________________________________________



Name _________________________________________________________


Alphabet fun

1. Put these groups of letters into alphabetical order.

c b e d i h g j p n q m o w z x v y

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

2. Do the same with these.

f c b g t s v q k h m i v t p w

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

3. Which way do Li and Sam go to get to the park?

Follow the letters in alphabetical order to find out.

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Alphabetical order: the first letter (1)

1. Put a ring round the first letter of each of these words.

dog camel bear alligator

Now put the words in alphabetical order. The first one

has been done for you.

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

2. Do the same for these words, on each line.

lemon orange apple peach

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

scarf jeans hat tie

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

Name _________________________________________________________


alligator

Alphabetical order: the first letter (2)

Write each row of words in alphabetical order.

1. piano xylophone drum

2. toast carrot egg

3. doctor teacher nurse

4. truck car van

5. hospital school factory


Name _________________________________________________________



Colour word search

1. There are seven colour words hidden in this soap

bubble. Can you find them?

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2. Write the colours you found.

________________________ ________________________ ________________________

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

3. Now put the colours you found into alphabetical order.

________________________ ________________________ ________________________

________________________ ________________________ ________________________ _______________________

Name _________________________________________________________


A to Z

The words in a dictionary are sorted into alphabetical

order. Words starting with a come first, then those

starting with b, then c and so on.

1. What is the first word in

your dictionary? ___________________________________________

2. What is the last word in

the dictionary? ___________________________________________

3. Find the first word which starts with the letters below.

b k m p v z

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4. Find the last word which starts with the letters below.

c d j o r w

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Name _________________________________________________________



Similar

A synonym is a word that means the same or almost

the same as another word.

1. Find a suitable synonym for each phrase. The first one

has been done for you.

a correct reply a tiny insect

a correct _____________________ a _____________________ insect

a tidy drawer an unhappy girl

a _____________________ drawer a _____________________ girl

2. Write a word which means the same or almost the

same as each of these words.

afraid ________________________________ fast ________________________________

yell ________________________________ cook ________________________________

Name _________________________________________________________

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Different

An antonym is a word that means the opposite of

another word.

1. Write an antonym, or opposite, of the words below.

soft ________________________________ dark ________________________________

narrow ________________________________ quiet ________________________________

few ________________________________ outside ________________________________

2. Write the antonyms that describe the pictures below.

The first one has been done for you.

_______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________

_______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________


Name _________________________________________________________

dirty clean

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Anagrams

Rearrange the letters to spell the word for each

picture. Check the spelling in your dictionary. Write

the page number.

pea flow redbag

________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________

flea sore foal

________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________

reap cheap cafe

________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________

Name _________________________________________________________

Rhyme time

Words which rhyme often have the same letters at

the end.

Write a rhyming word for each word below. Use the

picture clues to help you.

pen sing

_______________________________ _______________________________

rock top

_______________________________ _______________________________

pain sold

_______________________________ _______________________________

fair shark

_______________________________ _______________________________


Name _________________________________________________________


The right spelling (1)

Long a

1. Put ai, ay or a–e in the spaces below. Check the

spellings in your dictionary if you can.

g ______ t ______ pl ______ ______ tr ______ ______ n

Long e

2. Put ee or ea in the spaces below. Check the spellings

in your dictionary if you can.

l ______ ______ f tr ______ ______ f ______ ______ t

Long o

3. Put oa, ow or o–e in the spaces below. Check the


p ______ l ______ b ______ ______ t b ______ ______

Name _________________________________________________________

The right spelling (2)

Long i

1. Put ie, i–e, igh or y in the spaces below. Check the


cr ______ b ______ t ______ l ______ ______

It goes h ______ ______ ______ in the sk ______ .

Long u

2. Put oo, u–e, ew or ue in the spaces below. Check the


m ______ ______ n t ______ n ______ fl ______ ______

Use gl ______ ______ to stick things together.


Name _________________________________________________________


Building words

Sometimes two short words can be put together to make

a longer word.

rain + bow = rainbow

1. Make long words from these words.

light + house = ____________________ foot + ball = ________________________

2. Match up these short words to make longer words.

class board

black storm

door brush

motor room

play paper

tooth fly

thunder bike

news ground

butter bell

Name _________________________________________________________


Name _________________________________________________________

More than one

Singular means one person or thing.

Plural means more than one.

One cat Three cats One dragon Two dragons

When you look up the word for something, your

dictionary gives you the singular and plural of it.

Use your dictionary to find ten words and their plurals.

word plural


Name _________________________________________________________

Verbs

Verbs are words that say what is happening or being done.

Verbs have different forms.

I jump. She jumps. He is jumping. We jumped.

Write the different forms for the verbs below.

The first one has been done for you.

1. smile _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

2. bury _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

3. walk _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

4. carry _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

5. laugh _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

6. cry _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

7. hurry _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

8. dive _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

9. slip _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

10. bark _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

smiles smiling smiled

Sounds similar (1)

In some words the same sound

is spelled differently.

The clown blew the trumpet loudly.

Write the correct spelling for these words.

1. ow and ou

cl ______ ______ d cr ______ ______ d sh ______ ______ t

2. oi and oy

b ______ ______ l t ______ ______ c ______ ______ n

3. oo and u

b___________________ p___________________ f___________________


Name _________________________________________________________


Sounds similar (2)

All these words have the same sound,

but are spelled differently.

A pair of bears gave Tom

a scare over there.

Complete these words with the correct spelling:

air, ear, are or ere.

1. f ______ ______ ______ p ______ ______ ______ sh ______ ______ ______

2. Did you te ______ ______ this dress?

3. It is rude to st ______ ______ ______ .

4. Her h ______ ______ ______ was very long.

5. Take c ______ ______ ______ . The st ______ ______ ______ s

are steep.

6. Wh ______ ______ ______ will you w ______ ______ ______

that hat?

Name _________________________________________________________

Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check

Use the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check method to learn

how to spell difficult words.

Look Say Cover Write Check

If you spell the word wrong, use Look, Say, Cover, Write,

Check to try again.

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Name _________________________________________________________

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Word fun

Read the clues and

complete this crossword.

1. a small house on wheels

2. the middle part of your

arm which bends

3. used for measuring

or for drawing

straight lines

4. two times

5. a soft, thick food made

from milk

6. the day of the week

between Thursday and Saturday

7. something that is wrong

8. something is this if it wobbles

9. a person who is this can lift heavy things

What animal’s name can you find? _______________________________________

Alphabet code

Write the words in alphabetical order to read the message.

tomorrow for Zoe drinks picnic our Bring

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Animal word search

The names of eight animals are hidden in this word

search. Find them and write their names. Use the picture

clues to help you.

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Musical instruments

1. What are the names of these

musical instruments?

2. What is the name of a large group of people who play

music together?

o ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

Name _________________________________________________________

d ______ ______ ______

v ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

r ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

p ______ ______ ______ ______

t ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

x ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

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Word steps

Read the clues to help you complete these word steps.


Name _________________________________________________________

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make comes back to you

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have just happened

6 breathe out slowly and make a sad sound

7 a man or boy who has done something

brave or good

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Quiz time (1)

Write the correct words.

1. a large group of soldiers a______________________

2. a vehicle that travels across water b______________________

3. a baby bird c______________________

4. a large metal or plastic

container for rubbish d____________________________________

5. a green jewel e____________________________________

6. the second month of the year F____________________________________

7. a kind of door in a fence or wall g______________________

8. a sweet, sticky food made by bees h______________________

9. a strong, hard, grey metal i______________________

10. a container for holding liquids j______________________

11. a toy that you fly in the air k _____________________

12. a young sheep l ______________________

13. a kind of jam, usually

made from oranges m_____________________________________

Name _________________________________________________________

Quiz time (2)

Write the correct words.

1. the time when it is dark n______________________

2. a white vegetable with a strong taste o__________________________

3. a small, round stone p_______________________

4. the cry of a duck q ______________________

5. things that you throw away r____________________________________

6. somewhere that you sit s______________________

7. an animal like a large frog t______________________

8. the brother of your mother or father u_________________________

9. someone who looks after sick animals v_________________________

10. the person who wins something w____________________________________

11. a photograph of the inside of your body x______________________

12. the yellow part in the middle of an egg y______________________

13. a line that bends suddenly up and down z______________________


Name _________________________________________________________


Name _________________________________________________________

Making a word bank

A word bank is a collection of interesting words on a

particular topic.

Put the words below into their correct word bank.

Add more words of your own.

March wrist trousers windscreen knee

bumper tie Sunday year afternoon headlight

blouse elbow trainers engine morning

Clothes Time words

Parts of the body Parts of a car

Collecting words

Use this page to make your own collection of words.

Here are some ideas for a word collection:

• words connected with a topic you are interested in

• words you want to learn to spell

• words you have learned to spell

• your favourite words

Make sure you know the meaning of the words you

collect. Use the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check way to

learn how to spell them.

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Activity 4

1. bcde ghij mnopq vwxyz2. bcfg qstv hikm ptvw3.

Activity 5

1. alligator, bear, camel, dog2. apple, lemon, orange, peach; hat, jeans, scarf, tie

Activity 6

1. drum, piano, xylophone 2. carrot, egg, toast3. doctor, nurse, teacher 4. car, truck, van5. factory, hospital, school

Activity 7

1.

2. (in alphabetical order): blue, green, orange, pink, red,white, yellow

Activity 8

1. to 4. Check the children’s answers are correct.

Activity 9

Check the children’s answers make sense.

Activity 10

Check the children’s answers make sense.

Activity 11

ape, wolf, badger, leaf, rose, loaf, pear, peach, faceCheck the children have written the correct page numbers.

Activity 12

hen; ring; clock; shop; train; cold; chair; park

Activity 13

1. long a: gate, play, train 2. long e: leaf, tree, feet3. long o: pole, boat, bow

Activity 14

1. long i: cry, bite, lie; It goes high in the sky.2. long u: moon, tune, flew; Use glue to stick things

together.

Activity 15

1. lighthouse, football2. classroom, blackboard, doorbell, motorbike, playground,

toothbrush, thunderstorm, newspaper, butterfly

Activity 16

Check the children’s answers are correct.

Activity 17

1. smiles, smiling, smiled 2. buries, burying, buried3. walks, walking, walked 4. carries, carrying, carried5. laughs, laughing, laughed 6. cries, crying, cried7. hurries, hurrying, hurried 8. dives, diving, dived9. slips, slipping, slipped 10. barks, barking, barked

Activity 18

1. ow and ou: cloud, crowd, shout2. oi and oy: boil, toy, coin3. oo and u: book, push/pushchair, foot

Activity 19

1. fair, pear, share 2. Did you tear this dress?3. It is rude to stare. 4. Her hair was very long.5. Take care. The stairs are steep.6. Where will you wear that hat?

Activity 20

Check the children’s answers are correct.

Activity 21

The animal’s name contained in the puzzle is alligator.

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Coded message: Bring drinks for our picnic tomorrow Zoe

Activity 22

Activity 23

1. drum, violin, recorder, piano, trumpet, xylophone,guitar

2. orchestra

Activity 24

1. ache, echo, oval, lean, news, sigh, hero, obey, your,roar, rare

Activity 25

1. army 2. boat 3. chick 4. dustbin 5. emerald6. February 7. gate 8. honey 9. iron 10. jug11. kite 12. lamb 13. marmalade

Activity 26

1. night 2. onion 3. pebble 4. quack5. rubbish 6. seat 7. toad 8. uncle 9. vet10. winner 11. x-ray 12. yolk 13. zigzag

Activity 27

Clothes: trousers, tie, blouse, trainersTime words: March, Sunday, year, afternoon, morningParts of the body: wrist, knee, elbowParts of a car: windscreen, bumper, headlight, engine

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