Revise Your Study Skills # 2
Five of the eight words below are misspelt Find them and then write their correct spelling.
- sculpchure
- accident
- hosipital
- chreak
- dafodill
- atmosphere
- baptise
- gondolla
Divide the following words into three
distinct families. What makes them a family? Give each family a name, eg 'eating
words'.
nibbled • travelled • happy • chewed
• delighted • slunk • chomped • puzzled • licked • raced • grumpy • meandered
| Adjectives for Nouns (5 Points) |
What is an adjective? What is a noun?
Turn the following nouns into adjectives, eg soap becomes soapy.
colour • crash • drain • bone • winter
| Create a Sentence (5 Points) |
Make a sentence from the letters of
each of the following five words keeping the letters in the order they are in the
word, eg ANGRY = Another Naughty Girl Really Yelled.
select • teams • teacher • moved •
| Correct or Incorrect (5 Points) |
Decide if each statement below is
correct or incorrect. Identify the incorrect statements. Can you say why they are
incorrect?
- It was a very serious and engraving
situation.
- She suffered severe lacerations falling
off her bike.
- He raise his glass of whine to drink
a toast.
- Blond is another form of the word
blonde.
- The number 19 bus was late arriving
at the ominous.
A synonym is a word of similar meaning,
eg bad/naughty/wicked. Find two synonyms for each of the following words.
- dangerous
- cry
- blank
- pull
- announce
| Seas and Oceans (5 Points) |
What are the names of the seas or
oceans which separate the following countries?
- England and Ireland
- Turkey and Greece
- Thailand and Philippines
- Honduras and Jamaica
Name the province to which each city
belongs, eg Hamilton/Waikato
- Invercargill
- Nelson
- New Plymouth
- Gisborne
| I Don't Belong (6 Points) |
Write the word which does not belong
in each set of words. For a bonus point, say why it doesn't belong.
- annoyed • angry • violent • terrified
• boiling
- called • announced • shouted • phoned
• moaned
- funny • sad • bright • witty • comical
| Pronouncing Words (6 Points) |
Many words are difficult to pronounce
and often we learn American pronunciation because we hear it so often on TV. Choose
the correct English pronunciation for each word below.
- harras = hu ras or harris
- basic = bassik or baysick
- auction = okshin or orkshin
- alumminium = al loom a nim or aloo
mini ym
| Countries by Letter (10 Points) |
Find the names of two countries which
start with each of the following five capital letters.
A • E • R • B • P
Total Possible Score = 66. |