Animal Kingdom...Semantic Field Back on the Farm Wordpower Rockets Cool Collocations...Lexical Structure: Collocation...

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1 INCREASE YOUR WORDPOWER 1 Animal Kingdom...Semantic Field... 5 Born to be Wild... 6 Back on the Farm... 7 Cluster Club...Word Game... 8 Wordpower Rockets... 9 Over the Moon...General Idioms Cool Collocations...Lexical Structure: Collocation Euro Quiz...Semantic Field Countries and Nationalities Time for a Rhyme...Pronunciation Rhyme Groups Too many Cooks spoil the Broth!...Proverbs Part & Parcel... A finger is part of a hand The Art of Being Polite...English in Everyday Situations How British are you? Compose a Compound...Word-formation: Compounds Synonyms...Synonyms Mixed Bag Quiz...General Vocabulary Test Link and Learn...Word Game What s your Sport?...Semantic Field Life is full of Ups and Downs...Phrasal Verbs Homophones...Pronunciation Find the Odd One Out! Super Similes...Idioms of Comparison Antonyms...Antonyms What s Up?...Phrasal Verbs In a Class of its Own...Classification (Hypernyms) Shared Beginnings...Word-formation: Compounds Famous Landmarks...Semantic Field Straight from the Horse s Mouth...Idioms involving Animals Look in the right Place...Semantic Field Don t count your Chickens......Proverbs Look for Links... Day is to sun as night is to moon Fill that Gap...Word Game Sounds Interesting...Pronunciation Vexing Vowels It s how you say it...english in Everyday Situations Scrabble...Word Game Be as Good as your Word...General Vocabulary Test Famous Last Words...Word Games... 62

2 PART AND PARCEL Pair up the words below with the ones in the grey box. arm book flower hand ship bed church foot house shirt bird computer garden leg shoe body face guitar picture tree 1. A thumb is part of a hand 2. A branch is part of 3. An arm is part of 4. An eye is part of 5. A wing is part of 6. An elbow is part of 7. An aisle is part of 8. A frame is part of 11. A button is part of 12. A door is part of 13. A chip is part of 14. A mattress is part of 15. A flowerbed is part of 16. A page is part of 17. A sole is part of 18. A knee is part of 9. A toe is part of 19. An anchor is part of 10. A string is part of 20. A petal is part of 20

3 SYNONYM QUARTETS Synonyms are words that mean the same or nearly the same as another. Pair up the synonyms in the grey box with their partners below; explain what central meaning they share. arrangement arrogance boundary dislike happiness harmony misfortune outcome pain present quarrel risk support talk tenderness untruth 1. love, affection, fondness tenderness 9. chat, conversation, conference 2. peace, agreement, unity 10. contentment, bliss, pleasure 3. aid, help, protection 4. agreement, contract, deal 5. danger, hazard, peril 6. lie, falsehood, deception 7. consequence, effect, result 8. barrier, border, frontier 11. hatred, ill will, enmity 12. gift, grant, donation 13. fight, row, brawl 14. bad luck, catastrophe, harm 15. ache, distress, suffering 16. vanity, pride, conceit Now choose one of the synonyms from each group and use it to make a sentence. 27

4 ... Dear Diary, reigned all day yesterday, reigning again today HOMOPHONES A homophone (from Greek homo =same and phoné=sound) is a word which sounds the same as another word, but is spelt differently and has a different meaning, the verbs to reign and to rain are homophones. bare blue brake by eight flour hair hear heard knot mail new nose plain scene son two weak won write ate flower bear hare blew herd break here buy knew knows male not one plane right seen sun too week Fill in the blanks using the homophone pairs from above; you must use both words in each sentence 1. I can t my husband walking in his feet indoors. 2. Luckily the garage fixed the faulty during my lunch. 3. Everybody that Jim has always got his in a book. 4. He that my dress was but he didn t say anything. 5. Liverpool the match by to nil. 6. I kept telling my teenage to stay out of the but he wouldn t listen. tomorrow morning he will have to himself some nice, soothing lotion! 34

5 ODD ONE OUT! Find the word that doesn t rhyme with the other three! bow bread done made cow shed one shade sew led won said blow greed bone maid food hood sued rude coal foul soul roll bake brake beak break no so to know bird heard ford word crown flown noun clown goes does mows close bed bead dead bread great late greet grate load broad mowed rode pair pear peer dare meat heat threat sweet know bun tough flower now son though flour toe gone enough power low done rough lower heart through rose foul heard cough chose bowl hart shoe choose owl cart flew goes growl 35