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September 1st

Spelling Bee

Score Prize

e.g. All 25 right Curry in front of X Factor

Test 1

1. accommodation

2. almost

3. beginning

4. burglar

5. calendar

6. condensation

7. definitely

8. desperate

9. disgusting

10. dissolve

11. extremely

12. giraffe

13. immediately

14. inflatable

15. innocent

16. laboratory

17. marvellous

18. necessary

19. obedience

20. parallel

21. raspberry

22. rhombus

23. sensible

24. separate

25. success

Test 2

1. acceptable

2. ally

3. ambitious

4. believable

5. confidence

6. cupboard

7. definitely

8. deny

9. determine

10. dissolve

11. embarrass

12. generous

13. insurance

14. interval

15. isosceles

16. miniature

17. occur

18. particular

19. referred

20. restaurant

21. scenery

22. scissors

23. similar

24. unnecessary

25. vegetable


September 2nd

Q1. The spooky man was a wicked wizard.

Which word is a verb?

Q2. What is 3/7 of 21?

Q3. What is the area of this regular hexagon?

(Divide it into 6 equilateral triangles.) 6 cm

Q4. Punctuation. Where is the mistake?

Its a lovely day for going sailing on the river, isn’t it?

Q5. 12 cm

6 cm

4 cm What is the area of this trapezium?

(Find the average of the parallel sides and mulitply by vertical height)

Q6. The Dog is chewing it’s bone In fact it has eaten it completely.

Please re-write this sentence with the correct punctuation. There are 4 punctuation mistakes.

Q7. What is 0.84 of 350? Multiply 84 by 3. Halve 84 (to work out 0.84 of 50) and then add together.

Q8. 3x + 2 = - 2x + 12

What is the value of x?

Q9. 4 cm

5 cm

12 cm What is the perimeter of this shape?

Q10. Each side of a square room measures 3.5 metres. What is its area?

5 cm


September 3rd

In this passage, there are some mistakes in the spelling. In each question these is either one mistake or no mistake. If there is no mistake, mark N. 1. The train chugged its way down the track away from the center of London. All the

A B C D N

2. shops, houses and factorys were being replaced with trees, fields and open country.

A B C D N

3. Adam sat back and closed his eyes. It had been a very traumatic few days and he

A B C D N

4. was utterly exhausted. His cousine, Georgie, was already asleep with her head

A B C D N

5. lolling towards the window. She had been playing the clarinette in a concert in

A B C D N

6. which everything that could go wrong did go wrong. She haden’t rehearsed as much

A B C D N

7. as she should have and the conductor set of at a very fast tempo. Georgie couldn’t keep

A B C D N

8. up and she played lots of mistakes. The audiance booed her off the stage in disgust.

A B C D N


September 4th

In this section, the three numbers in EACH group have the same relationship. Find the relationship for the first two brackets and use the same pattern to work out the missing number of the third bracket.

Q1. 3 (19) 6 5 (21) 4 6 ( ? ) 7

Q2. 15 (2) 5 16 (3) 4 9 ( ? ) 3

Q3. 64 (16) 3 80 (20) 3 48 ( ? ) 3

Q4. 7 (48) 7 12 (143) 12 9 ( ? ) 9

Q5. 4 (10) 5 3 (12) 8 3 ( ? ) 6

Find two words from the group. One must mean the same as the bold word and the other must mean the opposite of the bold word. (N.B. This is not a style of question that you should expect in the exam.)

Q6. ASSIST (wide, aid, spurn, hinder, chew)

Q7. DOMESTIC (heating, tame, wild, helpful, clean)

Q8. RETREAT (advance, trick, taste, withdraw, disallow)

Q9. ELIMINATE (choice, raise, detract, reject, include)

Q10. TAUNT (mock, respect, tight, wish, wise)

Which word from the 5 choices fits equally well with both pairs of words?

Q11. (cocktail, spicy) (smack, perforate)

A clobber B pop C biff D punch E shot

Q12. (lid, blanket) (hide, conceal)

A top B cover C seek D warmth E layers

Q13. (comedian, jester)

(magazine, paper)

A funny B read C laughter D comic E stage

Q14. (wealth, capital)

(advantage, benefit)

A assist B help C asset D city E payment

Q15. (bottom, level)

(puzzle, baffle)

A worry B floor C flat D enigma E shelf


September 5th

Q1. The lady wore a beautiful hat. She became the mayor of Swindon.

a) Which 2 words are verbs? b) How many nouns are there? c) What type of word is beautiful?

Q2. Which is bigger? 4/5 of 35 or the product of 9 and 4?

Q3. What is the area of this shape?

Q4. What fraction of 4 metres is 80 cm?

Q5.

a) What is the perimeter?

b) What is the area?

Q6. What is 0.64 of 150?

Q7. R + 2 R -1 R + 4 R R - 100

What is the median?

Q8.

If angle y = 72°, what is the size of angle

x?

Q9. Punctuation – where is the mistake?

The giant screamed ‘You are standing on my foot!’ ‘Sorry,’ said the mouse. A B C D N

Q10. Punctuation

The cat gave a miaow to all of it’s kittens. They followed it to the basket. A B C D N

y cm

x cm z cm

x

y

x cm

y cm

x cm


September 6th

In the following paragraph there are mistakes in punctuation. There is either 1 mistake or no mistake per numbered line. If there is no mistake – circle N.

1. Snails are one of the earliest known types of animals in the World.

A B C D N

2. There is evidence that they evolved more than six hundred million years ago

A B C D N

3. They can live in many different environments, don’t require much food,

A B C D N

4. and can evolve to survive conditions around them. All snail’s are molluscs.

A B C D N

5. this means that they have a hard shell that protects their bodies. As a snail

A B C D N

6. moves, it leaves behind a trail of slime, which allows it to easily move.

A B C D N

7. across any terrain without injury. They arent able to hear, so rely on touch

A B C D N

8. to interact with others. They use their sense of smell to help find food!

A B C D N


September 7th

In this section, please move 1 letter out of the

first word and put it somewhere in the second word to make two new real words. E.g. Fear : airy Answer: F (ear : fairy)

Q1. swing : tack

Q2. beard : ream

Q3. glass : pin

Q4. heated : sing

Q5. plaice : mad

Q6. worse : hate

Q7. crave : bath

Q8. bashed : save

In this section, please choose one word from each bracket to finish the sentence in the best way.

Q9. Ewe is to (hog, sheep, ram) as duck is to (drake, pond, cob).

Q10. Tree is to (branches, leaves, roots) as building is to (cement, foundations, windows).

Q11. Trainer is to (fitness, lace, sport) as trousers are to (tartan, waist, belt).

Q12. Baby is to (birth, human, hospital) as chick is to (hatch, fluffy, Easter).

Q13. tweet is to (bird, sweet, twitter) as post is to (mail, Facebook, pole).

Q14. Swamp is to (water, crocodile, stagnant) as river is to (Nile, flowing, virre).

Q15. Cardiff is to (Scotland, Swansea, Wales) as Oslo is to (Norway, Sweden, Denmark).

Q16. Sweet is to (savoury, sugar, dentist) as filthy is to (illness, clean, pigs).

Compound words. In this section choose one word from each group that when put together make a new longer word. The word from the group on the left always comes first. e.g. (chair, table, bench)

(cape, cloth, head) Ans.= tablecloth

Q17. (gun, cannon, archer) (ball, bat, wicket)

Q18. (blind, deaf, dumb) (filled, fired, fold)

Q19. (side, front, back) (hard, bone, skull)

Q20. (tar, black, resin) (give, gain, get)

Q21. (detached, semi, flat) (tree, tone, tried)

Q22. (straight, flat, bendy) (five, nine, ten)

Q23. (fall, bang, trip) (allow, agree, let)

Q24. (put, in, part) (give, hold, take)


September 8th

Q1. The magical wizard waved his silvery wand and turned the revolting frog into a princess.

a) Which 2 words are verbs?

b) How many nouns are there?

c) What type of word is his?

Q2. A map of Australia is drawn at a scale of 1:750,000. What real distance along the ground is represented by 2 cm on the map?

Q3. What is the area of this triangle?

15 cm 8 cm 14

cm

Q4. Punctuation – where is the mistake?

Blackbirds love to splash about in puddle’s when it is hot. It cools their feathers down.

Q5. Each row and column add up to 34. What is the value of ?

1 14

11

? 1


Verbal Reasoning The word in the top bracket has been made out of the two words either side. Copy this pattern and work out the word in the bottom bracket.

Q6. (when [fine] fish) (tred [ ? ] rise)

Q7. (ship [sash] paws) (bath [ ? ] rust)

Q8. Which of the following rows contains a cube number, a square number and a prime number – in that sequence?

A 64, 16, 18 B 125, 24, 17 C 8, 9, 11 D 27, 1, 12 E 36, 25, 13

Q9. Deirdre watches 4x hours of soaps a week and Richie watches 2x hours of soaps a week. If they watch 12 hours of soaps per week between them, what is the value of x?

Q10. What is the size of angle x?

Q11. A map of Ireland is drawn to a scale of 1:300,000. How many cm on the map represent a real distance of 9 km?

122°

x


September 9th

In this passage there are some mistakes in the use of punctuation. In each question these is either one mistake or no mistake. If there is no mistake, mark N.

1. I used to go to Swanage for holidays with my Parents and my sister. We would

A B C D N

2. go each year - if the money could be found. to pay for the caravan we always stayed

A B C D N

3. in. It was a one bedroom caravan, so my sister and I were left with the sofa’s to

A B C D N

4. sleep on. It was a lot of fun apart from the noise: My sister snored like a

A B C D N

5. train. Also, as I was the shortest one the dog would sleep at the bottom of my

A B C D N

6. bunk and she would curl up in a ball next to my feet. At least, that is how the night

A B C D N

7. started off. By midnight, she would be on top of my legs. by three a.m., she would

A B C D N

8. have crept up further. By Dawn, I would be on the floor and the dog would have the

A B C D N

whole bed to herself.


September 10th

Which two are different to the other three? Find the three words with the strongest link and then select the other odd two out. e.g. flat, cottage, drive, bicycle, castle as the other three are places where you can live.

Q1. helmet, fringe, crown, beret, clog

Q2. globe, orange, ball, box, cucumber

Q3. horses, stallion, bull, elephant, ram

Q4. Canberra, Austria, Washington DC, Earth, Rome

Q5. chain, break, holiday, brake, saddle

Q6. idol, lazy, hero, idle, lethargic

Q7. sip, swallow, swift, drink, quaff

Q8. smoke, ash, long, pine, oak

Which number comes next in the series?

Q9. 12, 7, 2, ______

Q10. 77, 68, 59, 50, _____

Q11. 25, 29, 26, 30, 27, _____

Q12. 123, 135, 147, 159, _____

Q13. 2, 2, 4, 12, 48, _____

Q14. 35, 24, 14, 5, _____

Q15. 12, 19, 25, 32, 38, _____

Q16. 125, 25, 5, _____


September 11th

Q1. Love is a lemon – either bitter or sweet. How is this sentence best described?

A metaphor B simile C proverb D idiom E pronoun

Q2. Find the punctuation mistake:

The witch recited her spell, ‘toil and

trouble, boil and bubble. Change me quickly, on the double.’

Q3. What is the expression for the nth term in this series?

2 5 8 11 14 …

Q4. These friends compared cost of their favourite chocolate bars.

Joe Mars 55p Adam Galaxy £1.95 Sarah Snicker 45p Jodie Dairy Milk £1.00 Frank Milky Bar ? If the mean is £1 and the median is £1

what is the cost of the Milky Bar?

Q5. A lucky dip bag contains 3 red balls, 5 white balls and 4 green balls.

To win a prize I have to pick a green ball. What are the chances of me not winning?

Q6. BadBoy t-shirts are available in three basic colours, each of which can have any of four sleeve colours and any of three badge designs. How many different types of shirt are available?

Q7. Please punctuate this passage. There are lots of mistakes.

Whats the time asked the pupil.

about time you got a watch replied the teacher.

The children all laughed uncontrollably ha ha ha ha

Be quiet screamed the teacher

Youve got an exam tomorrow he continued and you need to concentrate


September 12th

Crack the letter code Three of these four words are given in code. The codes are not written in the same order as

the words and one code is missing.

(If these are new to you, warm up with questions

1 to 6 from the GL Assessment Practice Paper 5)

SELL SALE MATE TEAS

6354 1422 5431

Q1. Find the code for the words SALE

Q2. Find the word that has the number code 6432

Q3. Find the code for the word SAME

1.

6354

1354

5431

1324

6324

2.

MEAL

SEAL

MELT

TEAM

MALE

3.

6324

2364

5364

6354

1364

MEAT TIME RATE TIER

2361 6541 4136

Q4. Find the code for the word RATE

Q5. Find the code for the word TAME

Q6. Find the word that has the number code 4321

4.

6541

2316

4136

2361

6521

5.

6341

2561

6321

4521

4136

6.

MATE

MARE

TRIM

RITE

RATE

If you know what you are doing, then dive

straight into these:

DOTS SHED TOOT WEED

4336 5736 6215

Q7. Find the code for the word SHOT

Q8. Find the word that has the code 1221

Q9. Find the code for the word HOST

7.

1435

3672

3627

2753

5721

8.

TOOT

DEED

SEES

TEET

DOOD

9.

7251

7521

1234

2345

3456

RATE RACE CART CARE

5413 1452 1432

Q10. Find the code for the word ACRE

Q11. Find the word that has the code 3241

Q12. Find the code for the word TEAR

10.

4253

1234

3512

4512

2154

11.

TEAR

RATE

TACT

LACE

TEA

12.

1234

3241

1432

2341

4321


September 13th

The following story has mistakes in the spelling. There is either 1 or no mistake in each line. Find

the group of words with the mistake in and circle the letter below. If you think there is no mistake,

circle n.

Q1. Last week, my son bought a letter home from school saying that he needed A B C D N

Q2. a costume for a special activitey day. The costume could be anything to do

A B C D N

Q3. with the bronze-age, from an ancient traveler to a hunter. I am now worried

A B C D N

Q4. because I do not have any costumes that would be suitable in our play box. A B C D N

Q5. I will have to make something, but what? I do have a old sheepskin rug that A B C D N

Q6. he could tye over his shoulders and I can probably find some old brown rags

A B C D N

Q7. that he can rap round his ankles to hide the trainers that he will have to wear.

A B C D N

Q8. I’m not sure that this well be enough though. I will do my best to persuade

A B C D N

Q9. him to make a pretend weapon and we’ll keep are eyes open for a dead pigeon

A B C D N

Q10. or two to hang of it so that he will look as authentic as possible. Other than

A B C D N

Q11. this, I am not sure what to do. Perhaps a fake beard and a shaggy wig? We’ll

A B C D N

Q12. have to be carefull that he isn’t so lifelike that the younger children are scared

A B C D N

Q13. of him. We wouldn’t want the four and five year olds screaming teriffied

A B C D N

Q14. tears around the playgrownd. Nor would we want him to smell like a real

A B C D N

Q15. bronze-age hunter. One whiff of a hunter’s armpit would finnish anyone off! A B C D N


September 14th

Q1. Love is as sweet as sugar. How is this sentence best described?

A metaphor B simile C proverb D idiom E pronoun

Q2. What is the next number in the series?

120, 120, 60, 20, 5, ?


17, 25, 31, 35, 37, ?


132, 120, 108, 96, 84, ?

Q5. What is the perimeter of this shape?

Q6. Find the punctuation mistake:

The Witch recited her spell, ‘Toil and

trouble, boil and bubble. Change me quickly, on the double.’


24 cm 30 cm 18 cm

Q8. These friends compared cost of their favourite chocolate bars.

Joe Mars 40p Adam Galaxy £1.20 Sarah Snicker 45p Jodie Dairy Milk £1.00 Frank Milky Bar 40p

a) What is the mode?

b) What is the range?

Q9. Mrs Blackwood is training for a sponsored run. She runs z kilometres on weekdays, twice as far on Saturdays and four times as far on Sundays. How many kilometres does she run in a week?

Q10. What fraction of 4 hours is 40 minutes?

4 m

7 m

7 m

6 m

3 m

7 m


September 15th

Q1. Whats wrong with this?

Q2. How many letters of our hidden word can you find?

Q3. If the code for A RAG MAN is F WFL RFS, what does FSFLWFR mean?

Q4. Find words closest in meaning:

(missed jig be) (frolic line saw)

Q5. Find words opposite in meaning:

(missed jig be) (frolic line saw)

Q6. Find a compound word:

(missed jig be) (frolic line saw) SINK KNOW WINS SNOW

2564 3152 4153

Q7. What is 3213 the code for?

Q8. What is 4152 the code for?

Q9. What is the code for KISS?

Q10. (4 [5] 3) (2 [3] 1) (6 [?] 5)

Q11. (3 [7] 5) (6 [2] 4) (9 [?] 5)

Q12. (7 [3] 2) (9 [3] 3) (2 [?] 1)

Q13. Maths is to (fun, hard, vital) as English is to (boring, easy, important).

Q14. A boy finds 54 caterpillars each measuring 2.3 cm long and 23 beetles each measuring 4.6 cm long and lines them all up end to end. How long is his line of insects? Extra point if you can work it out without writing anything down!

Tip: write out the sum and then think if you can adjust it into something you know a sneaky short-cut for.


September 16th

In the following paragraph there are mistakes in punctuation. There is either 1 mistake or no mistake per numbered line. If there is no mistake – circle n.

Q1. Sally is not very good at sitting still. Her Mum and dad get fed up of her fidgeting A B C D N

Q2. all the time. She is particularly bad when they are all watching the television: She A B C D N

Q3. cannot sit still. Last night, her mother said ‘Will you stop moving about? You are A B C D N

Q4. creating a draught’. Sally managed to sit still for precisely two minutes, then wriggled. A B C D N

Q5. After being moaned at, she usually sulks for about ten minutes and then goes off to A B C D N

Q6. Bens’ room (Ben is her brother) and starts to bother him. Last week, she picked up A B C D N

Q7. his Rubik’s cube and started to twist and turn it After exactly one minute and eight

A B C D N

Q8. seconds, she held it aloft and screamed, 'I've done it.' Suddenly, Ben forgave her for A B C D N

all her fidgeting.


September 17th

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Q1. If the code for LIGHT is MJHIU, what does CVMC mean?

Q2. If the code for WORRY is YMTPA, what is the code for PILLS?

The sun is a magical explosion and its rays bring heat and light to our land.

Q3. Which 2 words are verbs?

Q4. How many nouns are there?

Q5. What type of word is its?

Q6. A teacher marks 250 maths papers. There are 50 questions in each paper so how many questions are marked altogether?

Q7. What is the area of this regular hexagon?

y cm

Tip: Divide the hexagon into six equilateral triangles first.

Q8. FH is to GL as GI is to ?

Q9. RR is to QT as SS is to ?

Q10. BY is to WD as FU is to ?

Q11. A helicopter trip costs £65 for adults. There is a 30% discount for children. What is the price for a child?

Q12. James has x marbles and divides them equally into y bags. How many marbles in each bag?


26 cm 10 cm

24 cm

Q14. Look at this grid. What is the value of ?

63 72 81

72 81 90

81 90 ?

e cm


September 18th

Meanings of English words

That has put the cat amongst the pigeons.

Q1. What type of word is put?

Q2. What types of words are cat and pigeons?

Q3. Which word is a pronoun?

Q4. What type of sentence is this?

The gentle glowing from the flickering candlelight gave the room a comfortable feeling.

Q5. What type of word is glowing?

Q6. What type of word is gentle?

Q7. How many verbs are there?

Q8. candlelight, feeling.

These are both examples of which type of word?

The unreasonable violence of the schoolgirl meant that she had to be banished to a separate area.

Q9. What type of word is unreasonable?

Q10. Schoolgirl is an example of which type of word?

Q11. What type of word is had?

Q12. What type of word is banished?

Q13. What is the correct name for … ?

A parentheses B ellipses C preposition D hyphen E accent


September 19th

Punctuation

Q1. My Husband really likes breakfast and has an enormous bowlful every morning. A B C D N

Q2. There is nothing wrong with that, especially as he chooses quite healthy options A B C D N

Q3. However, I like to try and make it even healthier. For example I try to sneak on A B C D N

Q4. a spoonful of sesame, sunflower, linseed, and pumpkin seeds when he is not looking. A B C D N

Q5. I do this because seeds are good for both hearts and brain’s. He doesn’t like them A B C D N

Q6. much and complains that they stick in his teeth. Last week he said ‘I’m not a bird. A B C D N

Q7. Birds eat seeds, but husbands should eat bacon and eggs,’ He said it with a glint in A B C D N

Q8. his eye whilst eating. every single seed left at the bottom of the bowl. What a sensible

A B C D N

man.


September 20th

Solve letter sums

Q1. If A = 2, B = 3, C = 4, D = 12, E = 24, what is the answer to this sum written as a letter?

E × A ÷ C

Q2. If A = 1, B =2, C = 8, D = 16, E = 12, what is the answer to this sum written as a letter?

B × C × E ÷ E =

Q3. If A = 1, B =2, C = 3, D = 14, E = 5, what is the answer to this sum written as a letter?

A ÷ A – B + C = Create a compound word

Q4. (in, out, on) (rain, hale, snow)

Q5. (so, sew, sun) (on, over, in)

Q6. (they, she, he) (draw, art, pens)

Move a letter

Q7. track : posing

A t B r C a D c E k

Q8. brought : maker

A b B r C o D u E t

Q9. thank : trash

A t B h C a D n E k

Complete the word sentence

Q10. Play is to (theatre, garden, nursery) as film is to (camera, cinema, radio).

Q11. Tongue is to (mouth, flavour, taste) as skin is to (kins, feel, clothes).

Q12. Mauve is to (colour, crayon, purple) as pink is to (roses, red, lips).


September 21st

Q1. The Smedley family have 2 loaves of

bread delivered every week day. They

have double the amount delivered on

both of the weekend days. How many

loaves do they have per week?

Q2. There are 30 rabbits in a field. 2/5 are

female.

How many are male?

Q3. There are 27 sweets in each packet of

wine gums.

How many are there in 12 packets?

Q4. Jake halves his uncle’s age. He then

adds 10. The result is 35.

How old is his uncle?

Q5. Today’s temperature is 16ºC. Last night

it was - 1ºC. What is the difference

between them?

Q6. Granny went Christmas shopping and

filled her bag with the following

presents.

Luxury soap

Bottle of gin

1 large pineapple

A small box of truffles

A DVD of cartoons for her grandson

How much is her bag likely to weigh?

A 25g B 250g C 2.5kg D 25kg E 250 kg

Q7. At the Salisbury Christmas Panto 312

programmes were bought. 197 were

bought on the first night.

How many must have been bought on

the second (and final) night?

Q8. Gemma has clarinet lessons which cost

£14.50 each week.

How much is the bill for a 12 week

term?

Q9. A die has the numbers 1 – 6 on it.

When I roll it, what is the probability I

land on an even number?


September 22nd

Punctuation

Q1. The young lady was watching the film with a very sombre look on her face A B C D N

Q2. She couldnt work out whether the green and slimy monster was a goody or a baddy. A B C D N

Q3. At first, the monster was playing with the puppy in the film. Then, after ten minutes A B C D N

Q4. it tried to attack it with a slime machine, a huge roll of cling film, and also a A B C D N

Q5. fly-swat. Luckily the puppy was very quick and was able to avoid all of the A B C D N

Q6. monsters worst attacks. The puppy ran out of the house and into the garden. A B C D N

Q7. It’s owner managed to spray the green and slimy monster with the hose-pipe. A B C D N

Q8. As the monster dissolved, meaning that the green slime ran away into the gutter A B C D N

the young lady decided to switch off the film and get on with her homework.


September 23rd

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Crack the letter code

Q1. If the code for DANGER is FCPIGT, what is the code for DEFENCE?

A FGHGPEG B BCDCLAC C FHJJTJM D FGHGQFG E BCCDLAC

Q2. If the code for WOLVES is VLKSDP, what does GLVIR mean?

A HUNTS B HOOTS C HOWLS D FIUFQ E FIUES

Q3. If the code for STAPLE is URCNNC, what is the code for FOLDER?

A CLIPS B HMMCFP C DQJFCT D HMNBGP E METAL

Find the odd words out

Q4. cover lid skin conceal hide

Q5. stomach belly bottom thigh tummy

Q6. animal mule beetle horse donkey

Continue the number series

Q7. 2, 4, 7, 11, ?

A 13 B 14 C 15 D 16 E 17

Q8. 1, 3, 2, 4, ?

A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5

Q9. 179, 158, 137, 116, ?

A 85 B 95 C 105 D 106 E 97

Create words in the same way

Q10. bath (them) beam wash ( ) bead

A thud B shed C beat D shew E shep

Q11. hear (each) chap bind ( ) toad

A inch B onto C bait D into E indy

Q12. pint (tent) test dent ( ) pity

A puny B tiny C time D tidy E tite


Answers

September 2nd 1. was 2. 9 3. 90 cm² (½ base × height × 6) 4. It’s a lovely day for going sailing on the

river, isn’t it? 5. 48 cm² 6. The dog is chewing its bone. In fact, it has

eaten it completely.

7. 294 8. 3x + 2x = 12 - 2

5x = 10 x = 2

9. 34 cm (5 + 12 + 5 + 12) 10. 12.25 m²

September 3rd 1. C centre 2. B factories 3. N 4. B cousin

5. C clarinet 6. C hadn’t 7. C off 8. C audience

September 4th 1. 43 middle = left × right + 1 2. 2 middle = left ÷ right - 1 3. 12 middle = left ÷ 4 4. 80 middle = left × right + 1 5. 9 middle = (left + right) ÷ 2 or

10 middle = left + right + 1 6. aid, hinder 7. tame, wild

8. withdraw, advance 9. reject, include 10. mock, respect 11. D 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. B

September 5th1.

a. wore, became b. four (lady, hat, mayor, Swindon) c. adjective

2. product of 9 and 4 3. xy cm² 4. 1/5

5. a. 2x + 2y cm b. yz cm²

6. 96 7. R 8. 72° 9. A screamed, 10. C its

September 6th 1. D world 2. D ago. 3. D food 4. D snails

5. A This 6. D move (no full stop) 7. C aren’t 8. N


September 7th

1. s wing, tacks/stack 2. d bear, dream 3. g lass, ping 4. e hated, singe 5. i place, maid 6. s wore, hates/haste 7. c rave, batch 8. h based, shave 9. Ewe is to ram as duck is to drake 10. Tree is to roots as building is to

foundations 11. Trainer is to lace as trousers are to belt 12. Baby is to birth as chick is to hatch

13. tweet is to twitter as post is to Facebook. 14. Swamp is to stagnant as river is to flowing 15. Cardiff is to Wales as Oslo is to Norway. 16. Sweet is to savoury as filthy is to clean. 17. cannon,ball 18. blind,fold 19. back,bone 20. tar,get 21. semi,tone 22. flat,ten 23. trip,let 24. in,take

September 8th 1.

a. waved, turned b. 4 (wizard, wand, frog, princess) c. pronoun

2. 15 km 3. 56 cm² 4. Blackbirds love to splash around in

puddles when it is hot. It cools their feathers down.

5.

1 19 14

9 14 11

24 1 9

6. ride 7. tuba 8. C 9. 4x + 2x = 12

6x = 12 x 2

10. 58° 11. 3 cm

September 9th 1. C parents 2. C found to 3. D sofas 4. C my

5. B one, 6. N 7. C By 8. B dawn

September 10th 1. fringe, clog (hats) 2. box, cucumber (spherical) 3. horses, elephant (male animals) 4. Austria, Earth (capitals) 5. break, holiday (bicycle parts) 6. idol, hero (lazy) 7. swallow, swift (drink) 8. smoke, long (trees)

9. -3 10. 41 11. 31 12. 171 13. 240 14. -3 15. 45 16. 1


September 11th 1. A 2. The witch recited her spell, ‘Toil ... 3. 3n - 1 4. £1.05 5. 8/12 = 2/3 6. 3 × 4 × 3 = 36

7. ‘What’s the time?’ asked the pupil. ‘About time you got a watch,’ replied the teacher. The children all laughed uncontrollably, ‘Ha ha ha ha.’ ‘Be quiet!’ screamed the teacher. ‘You’ve got an exam tomorrow,’ he continued, ‘and you need to concentrate.’

September 12th1. 1324 2. MEAL 3. 1364 4. 2361 5. 6341 6. MARE

7. 5721 8. TOOT 9. 7251 10. 4512 11. TEAR 12. 3241

September 13th 1. B brought 2. B activity 3. C traveller 4. N 5. C an 6. A tie 7. A wrap 8. B will

9. C our 10. A off 11. N 12. A careful 13. D terrified 14. B playground 15. D finish

September 14th 1. B 2. 1 3. 37 4. 72 5. 9 m + 11 m + 9 m + 11 m = 40 m 6. The witch ...

7. 216 cm² 8.

a. 40p b. 80p

9. z + z + z + z + z + 2z + 4z = 11z 10. 40/240 = 1/6

September 15th 1. What’s 2. four 3. anagram 4. jig, frolic 5. missed, saw 6. jig,saw 7. SKIS 8. WINK

9. 2133 10. 7 +1, -2 11. 1 right = average(left, middle) 12. left = middle + double × 2

Maths is to fun as English is to important. 13. 54 × 2.3 + 2.3 × 46 =

100 × 2.3 = 230


September 16th 1. C mum 2. D television: she 3. C said, ‘Will 4. A draught.’

5. N 6. A Ben’s 7. C it. After 8. C done it!’

September 17th 1. BULB 2. RGNJU 3. is, bring 4. 6 (sun, explosion, rays, heat, light, land) 5. pronoun 6. 12,500 7. 3ey

8. HM 9. RU 10. AZ 11. £45.50 12. x/y 13. 120 cm² 14. 99

September 18th 1. verb 2. nouns 3. that (pronouns can replace all sorts of

things not just people) 4. idiom 5. noun (the glowing, not a glowing candle) 6. adjective

7. one (gave) 8. nouns 9. adjective 10. noun 11. verb (part of the verb to be) 12. verb 13. ellipsis

September 19th

1. A husband 2. D options. 3. C For example, 4. B linseed and

5. C brains 6. D he said, 7. C and eggs.’ * see below 8. A eating every

*The 11+ is unlikely to test you on anything but the simplest use of commas. However, Eventually, etc. Some question if there should be a comma after seeds. The rule, that some disagree with, is: comma before a but if it is followed by an independent clause e.g.

She liked him but refused to marry him.

She liked him, but she refused to marry him.

September 20th 1. D 2. D 3. B 4. in,hale 5. so,on 6. he,art

7. t rack,posting 8. r bought, marker 9. h tank, thrash 10. Play is to theatre as film is to cinema 11. Tongue is to taste as skin is to feel 12. Mauve is to purple as pink is to red


September 21st 1. 18 2. 18 3. 324 4. 50 5. 17 °C

6. C 7. 115 8. £29 × 6 = £180 -£6 = £154 9. ½

September 22nd 1. D face. 2. A couldn’t 3. D minutes, 4. D film and

5. A Luckily, 6. A monster’s 7. A Its 8. D gutter,

September 23rd 1. A (the 5th letter of answers are all

different, N+2 = P) 2. C (third letter is K to L = +1, V+1 = W) 3. D (third letter is A to C = +2, L+2 = N) 4. lid, skin (synonyms of hide) 5. bottom, thigh (synonyms of stomatch) 6. animal, beetle (horse family)

7. D 8. C 9. B 10. B shed 11. D into

B tiny (or pint or tint, sorry

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