VOCABULARY 2 EXERCISES (part 7)

1 Complete the crossword. What do you know about the mystery word?

1 thirty days
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2 a place where criminals have to live
3 things that you wear 2
4 a red flower 3
5 an extremely tall man 4
6 a reaction to a question 5
7 a sweet white thing 6
8 an animal that climbs trees and eats nuts 7
9 the opposite of war 8
10 a clever bird that can sometimes talk 9
11 a place where people live, smaller than a town 10
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2 Answer the following questions.

1 What is your favourite month? _______________________________________________________________

2 What clothes are you wearing? _______________________________________________________________
3 What is your favourite day of the week? _______________________________________________________
4 Who is your favourite painter? _______________________________________________________________
5 Name two animals that can live in a cage. ______________________________________________________
6 What do bees make? _______________________________________________________________________

3 Complete the sentences with the following words.

word blood heart enemy castle street adults cup

1 Tom destroyed the children's sand _____________________________.

2 That's true not only for children, but also for _____________________________.
3 He's not my friend, he's my _____________________________.
4 It's not _____________________________ it's ketchup.
5 What's the longest German _____________________________?
6 Love can break your _____________________________.
7 For breakfast, Sandra had a slice of bread and a _____________________________ of coffee.
8 There are some old houses in this _____________________________.

4 Match the sentence halves.

1 ____ The squirrels jumped A some beans and a tortilla.

2 ____ Tom wrote poems B and let the bird out.
3 ____ Animals C by bees.
4 ____ Jim ate D from branch to branch.
5 ____ Honey is produced E can't speak.
6 ____ I live near F on a date with me?
7 ____ Will you go G about his love for Mary.
8 ____ She opened the cage H an old bookshop.

SOURCES: Tatoeba (http://tatoeba.org/eng/), Cambridge Dictionaries Online (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/), Merriam-Webster's Learner's

Dictionary (http://www.learnersdictionary.com/) The Free Dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/), Wiktionary (https://www.wiktionary.org/).
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Exercise 1 1 month 2 prison 3 clothes 4 rose 5 giant 6 answer 7 sugar 8 squirrel 9 peace 10 parrot 11 village

Mississippi is the longest river in the USA.

Exercise 2

1 May
2 An orange T-shirt and black jeans.
3 Saturday.
4 Johannes Vermeer.
5 A hamster, a guinea pig.
6 Honey.

(Some of these answers are just examples.)

Exercise 3 1 castle 2 adults 3 enemy 4 blood 5 word 6 heart 7 cup 8 street

Exercise 4 1D 2G 3E 4A 5C 6H 7F 8B