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Engage in word usage exercises and trivia questions exploring various subjects, from vocabulary to history and geography. Enhance your knowledge and have fun with these stimulating warm-up activities!
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Week 10 Warm-ups November 9th-13th Veterans Day on Wednesday—no school, no warm-up!
Monday, November 9th warm-up Choose the correct word to complete the sentence. • How will this test (affect, effect) my average? • When the group is (all ready, already), we can leave? • Each of the families had a luxurious (berth, birth) on the cruise liner. • We read of a large (amount, number) of fatalities. • Rachael has a real (flair, flare) for skating. • This team has (fewer, less) spirit than last year’s team. • The (council, counsel) will meet this Wednesday. • Taran has the (medal, mettle) to fact this dangerous task. • The (seam, seem) in her dress began to split at the dance. • A person who is nasty is described as a (heal, heel).
Tuesday, November 10th Warm-up List 10 things that you want to do or accomplish in your life.
Thursday, November 12th Warm-up Each clue below suggests a word that ends with the letters A-G-E. The first has been done for you. • A vegetable cabbage • What travelers take • Ocean trip • Place to park the car • Bravery • To harm • Fierce • Type of breakfast meat • Mailing fee • A pet bird’s home • A communication • Fury • A horse-drawn cart • An actor’s platform • A small town
Friday, November 13thwArm-up • Which state is mostly a peninsula: California, Texas, Florida, Ohio? • Which pharaoh ruled first: Tutankhamen or Ramses I? • Which word is listed first in a dictionary: finish or final? • Do “biodegradable” materials break down in the soil or keep their chemical structure? • The day-care center bought 5 playpens at $50.50 each. What was the total cost? • When blue litmus paper is dipped in an acid, what color does it turn? • What country in Africa supplies most of the worlds gold? • Charles the First was beheaded. Was he a kind of England, France or Russia? • Al is a “chip off the old block.” Is Al the opposite of his father or just like him? • What ethnic group would you expect to see at a First Americans Festival?