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English Is Fun

This document provides a series of word games and puzzles including: changing one letter in a word to make a new word; matching nouns with suffixes to make new words; filling in missing vowels; rearranging letters to spell animal names; matching animals to their sounds; identifying the odd one out in word lists; sorting words into categories of fruits, vegetables, insects and animals; finding hidden words in sentences; and making new words from the letters in a phrase. The puzzles get progressively more difficult and test skills like spelling, vocabulary, problem-solving and pattern recognition.

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157 views10 pages

English Is Fun

This document provides a series of word games and puzzles including: changing one letter in a word to make a new word; matching nouns with suffixes to make new words; filling in missing vowels; rearranging letters to spell animal names; matching animals to their sounds; identifying the odd one out in word lists; sorting words into categories of fruits, vegetables, insects and animals; finding hidden words in sentences; and making new words from the letters in a phrase. The puzzles get progressively more difficult and test skills like spelling, vocabulary, problem-solving and pattern recognition.

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Make a new word

Change only one letter to make a new word. You cannot add new letters.
For example: live love / line (You can have several variants.)

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

sing cat big take right red

Possible answers: 1) song, ring, ding 2) rat, car, fat 3) bag, pig, bin 4) lake, make, rake 5) night, light, sight 6) bed, led, rod

Word Building
Make up new words matching the nouns in the first column and the suffixes in the second one.

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7)

Duck Diction Medic Art Friend Cult Child

a) ine b) ist c) ship d) ary e) hood f) ling g) ure

Check your answers: 1) f 2) d 3) a 4) b 5) c 6) g 7) e

Missed vowels
Fill in the missed vowels and guess what the words are. Os are missed As are missed Es are missed 1) lk 5) dd 9) b 2) flr 6) cnl 10) tr 3) prt 7) bnn 11) chs 4) bkshp 8) pnm 12) scrt
Answers: look floor port bookshop Answers: dad canal banana panama Answers: bee tree cheese secret

Animal word hopscotch


Arrange the letters in the correct order and you will read the names of animals. Check your

1) xfo 2) noli 3) brae 4) bazre 5) barbit

6) flwo 7) getri 8) esumo 9) halew 10) phildon

answer: 1) fox 2) lion 3) bear 4) zebra 5) rabbit 6) wolf 7) tiger 8) mouse 9) whale 10) dolphin

Animal sounds
Match the animals and the sounds they make.

1)cat 2)dog 3)duck 4)frog 5)horse 6)pig 7)bee

a) quacks b) neighs c) grunts d) barks e) mews f) buzzes g) croaks

Check your answers: 1)e 2)d 3)a 4)g 5)b 6)c 7) f

Black sheep
Which word is the odd one out and why?

1)grass, cucumber, fir-tree, tomato Check your 2)milk, banana, snow, cloud answers: tomato 3)football, hockey, golf, tennis 1) 2) banana 3) hockey 4)floor, mop, window, carpet 4) window ring 5)glasses, ring, eyes, make-up 5) 6) fire 7) manager 6)fire, snow, ice, ice-cream 7)novelist, playwright, manager, poet

Word groups
Place each word under the correct heading. Ant, beetroot, butterfly, dolphin, garlic, grapes, hedgehog, kangaroo, ladybird, lettuce, melon, mosquito, onion, peach, plum, squirrel
Fruits Vegetables Insects Animals

grapes melon peach plum

beetroot garlic lettuce onion

ant butterfly ladybird mosquito

dolphin hedgehog kangaroo squirrel

Hidden Word
Find the word hidden within the sentence. For example: Find a flower in the sentence The sun setting against the horizon makes Cairo seem magnificent. ( rose) 1) Find food: Ricky passes a ladder on the street. 2) Find colour: I agree not to eat all the cookies 3) Find a shape: The pet store owner had seen Pavlov a lot of times. 4) Find a fruit: Look, I will not tolerate such insolence anymore. 5) Find an article of clothing: Sports cars frequents personal injury insurance claims. Check your answers:
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) salad green oval kiwi scarf

Words from words


Make other words from this phrase using only the letters it contains. You can use the same letters more than once.

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