1. Divide into groups and transcribe these words:
Worry, student, apricot, oppose, novel, after, magic, limit, visit, excuse, sentence, bypass, money, cinema, never, crying, stupid, numeral, uncle, Monday, war, river, panic, staff, hunting, transport.
| primary alphabetical meaning | primary short meaning | secondary meaning |
2. Find the odd word:
- palace, better, visit, apricot, palace
- stupid, trying, Friday, April, silly
- student, numeral, never, crying, being
- doing, hunting, uncle, cinema, magic
- panic, limit, novel, letter, fiddle.
3. Find disyllabic and polysyllabic words in which the vowel letter has its alphabetical meaning:
Our jobs, our possessions and even the areas in which we live become a matter of competition. We make out that our jobs and possessions are somehow better or more desirable than other people’s and we claim that our country, town or village is the best, the biggest or the most friendly or the most civilized in the world. Are we interested in proving our superiority, or is it that we take a sadistic delight in proving that some poor fellow being is inferior to us?
4. Transcribe these words:
Archery, point, cricket, victory, golf, runner-up, water polo, racket, rugby, ring, swimming, championship, spectator, figure-skating, fencing.
5. Transcribe and explain the rules of reading in the next words:
No Enemies.
by R. Mackey
You have no enemies, you say
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty
That the brave endure
Must have made foes.
If you have none –
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lips
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight.