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Games, activities and teaching ideas > A puzzle for you.....
A puzzle for you.....
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Apodo
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A puzzle for you.....
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See if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common.
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
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8 Jun 2012
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almaz
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OK. What links painless killing, disparaging, stop holding in one �s hand, and writing notes?
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8 Jun 2012
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MarionG
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apodo, brilliant! Thanks for posting!
almaz...no idea but my first association is my fourth grade class.. :) (just kidding) |
8 Jun 2012
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Apodo
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@almaz Got it! But I am a native speaker and I enjoy word puzzles. |
8 Jun 2012
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almaz
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Well done, Marion.
I was just about to give the particle as a clue...
Oh, the hell with it...I �ll give it anyway.
The second word is down. |
8 Jun 2012
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cunliffe
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I got that one straight away, Alex! So, what links - promote, hang the shelves, increase, erect, stack.
And - how do you show that a sheet of paper is a lazy dog? |
8 Jun 2012
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almaz
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Got the first (begins with �r �). The second is a series of homophones/mondegreens - the sort of thing that creases maths geeks :) ... |
8 Jun 2012
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cunliffe
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No! I could add �raise � to the list, though...
Since my son told me the second one, which is apparently something called a mondegreen(!!!) but I just call it a play on words, you might be right about it appealing to maths geeks!
Anyway, here it goes.
A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plain. An inclined plain is a slope up. A slow pup is a lazy dog... Groan. Sorry. |
8 Jun 2012
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cunliffe
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The tension is killing me. The answer to mine is the opposite of the answer to Alex �s. |
8 Jun 2012
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MarionG
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Cunliffe,
could I add "letting someone sleep over" to the list?
What about "to stomach"? |
8 Jun 2012
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