Revise Your Study Skills # 2

Spelling (5 Points)

Five of the eight words below are misspelt Find them and then write their correct spelling.

  1. sculpchure
  2. accident
  3. hosipital
  4. chreak
  5. dafodill
  6. atmosphere
  7. baptise
  8. gondolla

Word Families (6 Points)

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?

  1. It was a very serious and engraving situation.
  2. She suffered severe lacerations falling off her bike.
  3. He raise his glass of whine to drink a toast.
  4. Blond is another form of the word blonde.
  5. The number 19 bus was late arriving at the ominous.

Synonyms (5 Points)

A synonym is a word of similar meaning, eg bad/naughty/wicked. Find two synonyms for each of the following words.

  1. dangerous
  2. cry
  3. blank
  4. pull
  5. announce

Seas and Oceans (5 Points)

What are the names of the seas or oceans which separate the following countries?

  1. England and Ireland
  2. Turkey and Greece
  3. Thailand and Philippines
  4. Honduras and Jamaica

New Zealand (4 Points)

Name the province to which each city belongs, eg Hamilton/Waikato

  1. Invercargill
  2. Nelson
  3. New Plymouth
  4. 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.

  1. annoyed • angry • violent • terrified • boiling
  2. called • announced • shouted • phoned • moaned
  3. 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.

  1. harras = hu ras or harris
  2. basic = bassik or baysick
  3. auction = okshin or orkshin
  4. 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.



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