It’s day 15 of Better Tuition’s advent calendar and we have a fun verbal reasoning activity for you. Can you find the four-letter word hidden across two words? This skill is useful for trainee sleuths, spies and students preparing for GL-style grammar school entrance exams/ 11 plus.
Click to download A Winter’s Tale Verbal Reasoning. This is a pdf file. If you prefer to work from the screen, scroll down for the full activity and solution.
Find the Hidden Words
Instructions:
In each sentence, find the four-letter word hidden across two words. Underline the two words and write the hidden word at the end of each line.
EXAMPLE |
Frost glittered on the many windows of Syrett Hall. |
them |
A Winter’s Tale
1 |
Silence fell over the little town as night drew across the land. |
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2 |
A huge army of stars trouped across the velvety black sky. |
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3 |
From somewhere in the forest came the shrill hoot of an owl. |
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4 |
The man in the moon slid out from behind silver clouds. |
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5 |
With a smile, he blew glittering moonbeams across the rooftops. |
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6 |
At the stroke of nine, front doors swung open, one by one. |
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7 |
Children took lanterns through the town’s cobbled streets. |
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8 |
Their happy games filled the night sky with joyful laughter. |
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9 |
A flock of reindeer gathered over the town on a mountain top. |
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10 |
Waiting for the signal, they silently watched the scene below. |
A Winter’s Tale: SOLUTION
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1 |
Silence fell over the little town as night drew across the land.
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LOVE |
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2 |
A huge army of stars trouped across the velvety black sky. |
GEAR |
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3 |
From somewhere in the forest came the shrill hoot of an owl.
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REIN |
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4 |
The man in the moon slid out from behind silver clouds.
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THEM |
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5 |
With a smile, he blew glittering moonbeams across the rooftops.
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HERO |
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6 |
At the stroke of nine, front doors swung open, one by one.
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NONE |
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7 |
Children took lanterns through the town’s cobbled streets.
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DENT |
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8 |
Their happy games filled the night sky with joyful laughter.
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THEN |
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9 |
A flock of reindeer gathered over the town on a mountain top.
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DOVE |
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10 |
Waiting for the signal, they silently watched the scene below.
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FORT |
Teachers, please feel free to print this out and use it with your class. You could easily extend or adapt this activity by asking children to identify main and subordinate clauses, adjectives, and/ or adverbs. You could also use it as a stimulus for creative writing.
Parents, please feel free to print this out and use it with your child(ren).
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