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How many things? quiz

Yellow fruit

A Work in teams. In five minutes, how many kinds of yellow fruit can you name in English? 
Unscramble these words to start.

prfugeiart

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iappnple

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omnag

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B Use the Dictionary Search on the CD-ROM: Click on the Search
button  and choose Dictionary search from the menu. Type ‘yellow

fruit’ and press the Find button. Which of these three from the list is not a 
yellow fruit?  

papaya

prickly pear

quince

C Now click on the other words in the list and answer these questions:

1 Which other things in the list are not a fruit?

2 Which of the other fruit are not normally yellow?

3 Which two words are synonyms of each other?

Musical instruments

D Work in teams. In five minutes, how many musical instruments can you name in English? 
Unscramble these words to start.

onjba

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rrgitau

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xpesohaon

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E On the CD-ROM, click on the Search button and choose the Dictionary search. 
In the field, type musical, press the AND button, type instrument, tick the Definition box, 

and click Find. Look at the list and do the following:

1 Look at the words beginning with 'B' and find the musical instruments that are typical of…

Scotland

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Greece

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Russia

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2 How many words beginning with 'B' are not musical instruments?

3 Look through the definitions of the words in the list. How many stringed instruments can you find?

4 Go back to the Dictionary Search. Type instrument, press the AND button, type string, tick the Definition
box and click Find. Compare the list you made to this list.

How many other things?

F Work in your teams and take five minutes to write lists of things in the following categories. 
Then compare your list with the CD-ROM’s list by using the Dictionary search.

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long vegetables

•

large animals

•

small buildings

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Topic:

Revision of vocabulary on a particular topic

Level:

Intermediate or advanced

Aim:

To expand vocabulary

To give students practice in using the Dictionary Search on the CD-ROM 

Timing: 30 minutes

answers:

A grapefruit, pineapple, mango

B Access the Dictionary search by clicking 
on the Search button then selecting Dictionary 

search from the menu. Type in ‘yellow fruit’ and press 
the Find button. 

This list will appear, and students can click on any 
of the words in the list to see that entry.

answer: prickly pear

You and your students may be surprised to see that 
something that is not a yellow fruit is on the list.  
This is because the words ‘yellow’ and ‘fruit’ 
appear in the definition for prickly pear even though 
it is not a yellow fruit. 

C Click on the words in the list to see their entries. Read the definitions to help answer 
the questions.

answers: 

1 bear, cup, kernel, scent 

2 lime, orange

3 papaya and pawpaw

D answers: banjo, guitar, saxophone

E answers:

1 Scotland: bagpipes, Greece: bouzouki, Russia: balalaika

2 Not musical instruments: baritone, bellow, body, bow, brass band, brassy

F answers: Answers will vary.

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