Activity 18. Spelling Bee

Fill in the blanks in each sentence with two or three words that have the same sound but different spelling and different meanings. The number of blanks equals the number of letters in the missing word.

won one see sea heard herd red read four for fore here hear threw through blew blue way weigh rode road not knot sun’s rays sons raise wait weight so sew sow wrote rote tied tide seen scene ate eight

1. Our team won one game and lost three games.

2. The …. golfers watched … the ball when they

heard someone shout “…. !”

3. Each player ….. the ball ……. the hoop at least once.

4. As we approached the coast we could … the … .

5. Anna had .. many things to … on her new machine

that she had no time to … any seeds in the garden.

6. At the airport the guide said, “Come this … so they can

….. your luggage." 7. We had to …. in line until they determined the ….. of

our bags.

8. We …. the boat to the dock so it wouldn't go out

when the …. came in.

9. Unfortunately, we did … put a very good …. in

the rope, and it came unfastened.

10. The people on the safari ….. that a …. of elephants

was headed their way.

11. If you sit …. very quietly, you can …. the wind

blowing through the trees.

12. The man in the … coat …. the notice to me.

13. We …. on horseback through the tall grass until we

came to the …. that led to the town.

14. Everything looked so familiar; it was as if we had ….

that ….. before.

15. We went to where they were selling boats, and …. …. boats had a sign

on them that said “ … …. .”

16. The students ….. in their notebooks the sentences that they had learned

by …. .

17. The wind …. the rain clouds away, leaving a clear …. sky.

18. The father said, “I will sit in the shade out of the hot …’. …. while

my …. ….. the roof on the house.”

Complete this crossword with phonetic spelling of these verbs.

Use the symbols from the sounds menu. Two of the verbs have been

written for you.

[b]	bed
[p]	park
[f]	face
[v]	every
[t]	time
[d]	dog
[t∫]	church
[s]	see
[k]	drink
[m]	most
[n]	name
[ŋ]	bring
[h]	here
[l]	live
[r]	ride
[w]	west
[e]	egg
[i]	sit
[i:]	seat
[iƏ]	here
[eƏ]	hair
[כ:]	sport
[Ə:]	bird
[u]	good
[ei]	face
[ai]	line

Sounds Menu

								i
							ei
						כ:
				r	ai	t
				i:
			ei	d
		u
	Ə:

Complete this crossword with phonetic symbols from

the sounds menu.

				5	7
				a
			b
1	c 2	3			8
	d		4
e			f	6
	g		h

Across Down

a pear 1 heard

b leave 2 bread

c break 3 read

d reach 4 cheap

e dead 5 speaks

f east 6 sea

g dear 7 wear

h pea 8 seat

Find words on the right which rhyme with those on the left. Write them in the boxes and you will get the answers.

				1 B	E	E
2
	3
			4
				5
6
				7

1.	be	stone
2.	read	summer
3.	hair	laugh
4.	know	salt
5.	enough	degree
6.	some	bee
7.	sort	affair

		1
2
	3
		4
5
	6
	7

1.	earth	debt
2.	right	flaw
3.	car	tease
4.	foam	mirth
5.	ease	scarf
6.	head	height
7.	floor	home

			1
2
			3
			4
			5
		6
	7

1.	jerky	fun
2.	master	storm
3.	chair	roar
4.	right	journey
5.	warm	disaster
6.	tore	kite
7.	done	care

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		2
			3
		4
		5
		6
			7
8
		9

1.	spare	pheasant
2.	bit	obey
3.	pearl	science
4.	ate	provide
5.	signs	fate
6.	pleasant	pear
7.	sleigh	dead
8.	wide	girl
9.	met	build

Would you like to get a compliment? If yes, do the following.

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	2
3
			4
				5
				6
			7
			8
	9
			10
			11

1.	rhyme	witch
2.	adore	some
3.	crate	learn
4.	word	ridge
5.	spare	great
6.	turn	lair
7.	rich	heard
8.	page	son
9.	sum	horn
10.	sun	time
11.	which	age

		1
2
			3
		4
		5
			6
	7
			8
		9
	10
11

1.	fish	tower
2.	found	dove
3.	tight	cure
4.	pure	find
5.	kind	sight
6.	sun	bound
7.	care	quite
8.	fear	son
9.	flight	wish
10.	love	hair
11.	flower	tear

				B
			1
			2
			3
4
			5
		6
			7
	8

1.	weather	luck
2.	ask	puff
3.	purse	mild
4.	first	wealthy
5.	child	leather
6.	cuff	curse
7.	duck	task
8.	healthy	burst

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		2
		3
			4
			5
	6
	7
8

1.	affair	pale
2.	pair	adore
3.	night	sold
4.	bread	some
5.	soul	knight
6.	door	fare
7.	sum	dead
8.	pail	hare

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			2
3
			4
			5
			6
	7
		8
9
		10

1.	morn	caught
2.	tide	meat
3.	heard	glove
4.	rain	pitch
5.	calm	tight
6.	cord	tie
7.	beach	arm
8.	fly	rein
9.	love	fawn
10.	meet	hurt

			1
	2
		3
			4
	5
	6
	7
		8
9
			10

1.	tire	earn
2.	rate	guy
3.	board	lie
4.	clear	bread
5.	red	calm
6.	doll	veer
7.	arm	bawd
8.	apply	fall
9.	learn	tyre
10.	tie	straight

			P
	1
	2
	3
			4
	5
		6
7

1.	sail	sleigh
2.	cry	neutral
3.	week	knot
4.	slay	pearl
5.	curl	sale
6.	not	rye
7.	new	weak

			C
	1
			2
			3
	4
5
		6
			7
		8
9
	10
		11
	12

1.	hole	avert
2.	mine	wrist
3.	Monday	cool
4.	court	rest
5.	been	one
6.	sine	monkey
7.	full	whole
8.	gate	sign
9.	breast	mind
10.	risk	bean
11.	word	caught
12.	won	gay

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				2
				3
		4
				5
6
			7
		8
	9
			10
				11
12

1.	sea	whose
2.	fall	taught
3.	fine	sign
4.	need	gate
5.	cheap	should
6.	risk	fault
7.	height	find
8.	shoot	high
9.	sine	chief
10.	gay	sea
11.	brought	knee
12.	louse	wrist

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2
				3
				4
			5
				6
		7
			8
				9
				10
			11
				12

1.	hard	sleigh
2.	rain	curl
3.	couple	curd
4.	hide	fault
5.	pearl	lie
6.	slay	soul
7.	were	heart
8.	fall	whirl
9.	sold	height
10.	tire	reign
11.	apply	tyre
12.	bird	trouble

An anagram is a word whose letters can be arranged to form a new

word. Change the anagrams in the sentences below to form a new

word according to the clue given.

ten

CHANGE: ‘net’ into a numeral

C

HANGE:

• ‘act’ into a pet

• ‘earn’ into a preposition

• ‘file’ into the most important thing for people

• ‘meat’ into a group of players

• ‘eat’ into a nice drink

• ‘dear’ into what you like to do

• ‘was’ into the Past form of the verb

• ‘raw’ into a very dangerous thing

• ‘lime’ into a distance

• ‘felt’ into the opposite of right

• ‘peach’ into the opposite of ‘expensive’

• ‘God’ into the animal

• ‘tame’ into your friend

• ‘seat’ into the opposite of west

• ‘late’ into a story all children are very fond of

• ‘gib’ into a great size

• ‘night’ into an object

• ‘rail’ into a teller of lies

• ‘hose’ into a footwear

• ‘heart’ into a soil

• ‘tone’ into a brief letter

• ‘doom’ into a state of mind

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