Rhyming, Idioms, and more

Collocations

100

Please (Keep / pay / have) attention in class

Pay attention

200

Do you want to (break / catch / take) a chance on the lottery?

Take a chance

300

All good things must (come / get / go) to an end.

All good things must come to an end.

400

Can you (make / cut / spend) time for me this weekend?

Spend time with me

500

To make the world a better place, we must (go / work / bring) about change.

Bring about change (talk about, think about)

8 Rhymes

100

cat

Answers may vary. hat, rat, bat, mat, fat, pat, sat, chat, that, flat, gnat, slat, 

200

go

Answers may vary.  Examples: so, no, show, snow, low, throw, toe, know, dough, flow, whoa, slow, grow, row, tow, blow

300

play

Answers may vary.  Examples: stay, day, way, lay, ray, may, gray, pay, tray, melee, gay, fray, slay, ray, array

400

stop

Answers may vary.  Examples: drop, hop, flop, top, crop, mop, chop, plop, glop, bop, cop, lop

500

Dumb

Answers may vary.  Examples: crumb, sum, mum, bum, thumb, slum, come, drum, gum, hum, numb, glum

Silent letters - spell it

100

The day of the week with the most silent letters

Wednesday

200

A person who inherits something 

Heir

300

A respiratory condition that causes difficulty breathing. It often results from an allergic reaction

Asthma

400

So delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe.

Subtle

500

Mucus. What you have in the back of your throat when you’re sick

Phlegm

Idioms - meaning?

100

That homework is “a piece of cake”

Easy

200

You have to be ready “at the drop of a hat.”

Without advance warning

300

Don’t “beat around the bush” with me.

Avoid the issue, talk indirectly instead of saying the important thing directly

400

Please don’t “spill the beans” before Sunday. 

Tell a secret

500

He’s fit as a fiddle!

In good health

Two meanings

100

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

I was in my pajamas when I shot the elephant. 

The elephant was wearing my pajamas. 

200

I saw a man on a hill with a telescope.

• There’s a man on a hill, and I’m watching him with my telescope. 
• There’s a man on a hill, who I’m seeing, and he has a telescope. 
• There’s a man, and he’s on a hill that also has a telescope on it.

300

We saw her duck.

1. We looked at a duck that belonged to her.
2. We looked at her as she quickly squatted down to avoid something.

400

He fed her cat food.

1. He fed a woman’s cat some food.
2. He fed a woman some food that was intended for cats.

500

(3 meanings) Sarah gave a bath to her dog wearing a pink t-shirt.

Either Sarah was wearing a pink shirt, or the dog was wearing a pink shirt, or somehow the bathtub was wearing a pink shirt.