Advent Calendar: 12th December – Santa’s Proof Reading Challenge

Posted on 12/12/2012 by

Instructions:

Santa has a lot of letters to read at this time of year!  Here’s one with twelve spelling mistakes and eighteen incidents of missed or mistaken punctuation.  Can you a) identify and b) correct each one?

You can print off a pdf of Santa’s Proof Reading Challenge (recommended) or work on the picture below. Don’t scroll too far as the solution is below.

You can visit Better Tuition’s Advent Activity Calendar every day until 24th December for a fun learning activity in maths, English, verbal or non-verbal reasoning. You may also like to visit our download store, where you can download our 100 Winter Word Problems absolutely FREE or, if you need to practise proof reading and editing skills, why not try our Finding and Correcting Spelling and Punctuation Errors workbook (priced £3.99)?

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Advent Calendar: 11th December – Merry Christmas in 15 Languages

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Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today is to identify the Merry Christmases from around the world – or, to be more specific – to identify which languages are used. You can choose from French, Finnish, Icelandic, Tagalog, Swedish, Hungarian, Tahitian, Spanish, Thai, Dutch, Romanian, Cantonese, Scottish Gaelic and Danish.  The solution is at the bottom of the picture, so don’t scroll down too far!

Merry Christmas in 15 languages.

You can visit Better Tuition’s Advent Activity Calendar every day until 24th December for a fun learning activity in maths, English, verbal or non-verbal reasoning. You may also like to visit our download store, where you can download our 100 Winter Word Problems absolutely FREE.

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Advent Calendar Day Ten: Verbal Reasoning Cloze

Posted on 10/12/2012 by


Welcome to Day Ten of our Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a Verbal Reasoning Cloze activity for you. Choose the best word to fill in the gaps. Cloze activities enhance and assess vocabulary and comprehension.  They also feature in Durham CEM-style entrance exams.

If you enjoy this activity, why not visit our download store where you can download 100 Winter Word Problems completely FREE?

Click to open the PDF of our Winter Cloze Activity

As usual, teachers are free to use this activity with their classes.

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Advent Calendar: 9th December – a circular Christmas

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Here’s some more Better Tuition advent calendar maths.  Your challenge is to label the different parts of the circle.  You can print this page or make a sketch.

If your child struggles with maths, call Better Tuition on 0161 748 3912 to book your FREE assessment.

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Advent Calendar: 8th December – Properties of Shape

Posted on 10/12/2012 by

Welcome to Day 8 of our Advent Activity Calendar. Let’s take a look at the presents under the Christmas tree and answer some questions.

There are three gifts under the tree.

1. What shape are all three gifts?

2. How many vertices does each gift have?

3.The green gift weighs the same as the red gift and the blue gift together. If the red gift weighs twice as much as the blue gift and the blue gift weighs 500 grams, how much does the green gift weigh?

SCROLL DOWN FOR THE SOLUTION

  1. Cuboids

  2. 8

  3. 1500 grams or 1.5 kilograms

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Advent Calendar: 7th December – spread some Christmas cheer around the world

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We have a fabulously fun vocabulary activity for you today.

Vocabulary

is an extremely important aspect of education. Whether you are preparing for SATs or 11 plus/ entrance exams, your child will need to demonstrate a wide knowledge of words and their meanings. Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today combines vocabulary exercises with helping to feed hungry people from developing countries.

Freerice.com is a vocabulary quiz where every correct answer donates 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.  It’s a really fun game enjoyed by people of all ages. It adapts to your level, which means it’s never too hard and never too easy.

If you visit the category page, you can also choose from maths, language learning or chemistry, amongst other subjects.

It’s a great little pastime for the Christmas holidays and it really makes a difference to other people, so try it today: you’ll love it.

You can learn more about how to improve your child’s vocabulary on our blog. Why not download a copy of our Word Power Vocabulary Workbook?

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Advent Calendar: 6th December – puzzle solution.

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This is the solution to our advent puzzle from yesterday.

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The number of gifts given over the twelve days of Christmas is …

… 364.

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Many thanks to fellow Association of Professional Tuition Centres founders, Step Up Tuition in Timperley, from whom we got the puzzle.  You can visit their APTC page or like them on Facebook here.

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Advent Calendar: 6th December – Christmas Counting

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Your advent challenge for today is all about attention to detail. You are going to answer a question about The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Watch the song on Youtube below, or download a pdf of the song’s lyrics.

Now that you know the song, here comes your question. How many gifts, in total, did I receive during the Twelve Days of Christmas – according to the song?

Your choices are: a) 66; b) 78; c) 364.

Teachers’ note: this is even more fun if everyone has to estimate an answer within one minute – BEFORE calculating the answer based on the song lyrics.

Scroll down for the answer.

Photo Of Book Near Candle

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOLUTION:

364

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Advent Calendar: 5th December – Santa’s Verbal Reasoning Challenge

Posted on 05/12/2012 by

Santa loves our Better Tuition advent calendar so much he has created a fun Verbal Reasoning challenge for all those year five students who are busily preparing for Trafford’s Entrance Exams and for anyone who enjoys a good logic puzzle.

Each Christmas Eve, Santa’s elves must prepare the reindeer for the night to come.  Santa is very particular about the order of his reindeer and has left these instructions for the elves.  Can you help them by writing down the correct order?

Here are Santa’s instructions:

Comet behind Rudolph, Prancer and Cupid.
Blitzen behind Cupid and in front of Donder, Vixen and Dancer. Cupid in front of Comet, Blitzen and Vixen.
Donder behind Vixen, Dasher and Prancer. Rudolph behind Prancer and in front of Donder, Dancer and Dasher.
Vixen in front of Dancer and Comet.
Dancer behind Donder, Rudolph and Blitzen.
Prancer in front of Cupid, Donder and Blitzen.
Dasher behind Prancer and in front of Vixen, Dancer and Blitzen.
Donder behind Comet and Cupid.
Cupid in front of Rudolph and Dancer.
Vixen behind Rudolph, Prancer and Dasher.

Scroll down for the solution.

SOLUTION

Prancer
Cupid
Rudolph
Dasher
Blitzen
Vixen
Comet
Donder
Dancer

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Advent Calendar: 4th December – Verbal Reasoning Shuffled Sentences

Posted on 04/12/2012 by

It’s day 4 of our Advent calendar and we have a verbal reasoning challenge for you.

Snowman Wallpaper

At Better Tuition, Urmston, we have been trying to read this weather forecast but each sentence has been shuffled. What’s more, an extra word has been added to each sentence! Can you unshuffle the sentences and identify the extra word?

EXAMPLE

weather

be

the

heat

will

tomorrow

warm

 

The shuffled sentence can be rearranged to make the sentence “The weather will be warm tomorrow.”

The extra word is ‘heat’.

 

  1. month be soon December will a cold

  2. frost will a there be thick ice

  3. below fall to temperatures freezing yesterday will

  4. warm cold will you your need clothes

  5. of is a snow there possibility balls

  6. will up coldest away north it be

  7. slightly the be south will gone warmer

  8. week only get next it colder will

  9. good conditions be were flying particularly will

  10. sleigh in our for look above Santa’s

 

Scroll down for the solution.

Snowy Pathway Surrounded by Bare Tree

SOLUTION

 

  1. December will be a cold month. Extra word: soon

  2. There will be a thick frost. Extra word: ice

  3. Temperatures will fall to below freezing. Extra word: yesterday

  4. You will need your warm clothes. Extra word: cold

  5. There is a possibility of snow. Extra word: balls

  6. It will be coldest up north. Extra word: away

  7. The south will be slightly warmer. Extra word:gone

  8. Next week it will get colder. Extra word: only

  9. Flying conditions will be particularly good. Extra word: were

  10. Look out for Santa’s sleigh above. Extra word: in

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