Grade 8 fun challenge

Vocabulary

100

What does 'hesitate' mean?

To pause or wait before doing something because of uncertainty.

200

Synonym for 'polite' starting with 'c'?

Courteous

300

What does 'efficient' mean?

 

Doing something in a way that saves time and energy.

400

• What’s a synonym for tired that starts with “e”?

• Exhausted

500

What does 'consequence' mean?

 

•A: A result or effect of an action.

Grammar

100

• Identify the tense: By the time she arrived, I had already left.

Past perfect 

200

• Change into reported speech:

She said  = I love English 

^{she said that she loved English} 

300

• What’s the difference between much and many?

• Much for uncountable, many for countable nouns.

400

• What are the three main tenses in English?

• Past, Present, Future

500

• Change into passive voice:
  The students wrote the report.

• The report was written by the students.

General knowledge

100

• How many continents start with the letter “A”?

• Four (Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia)

200

 Capital of Canada?

Ottawa

300

• What animal is the largest in the world?

Blue whale 

400

Largest internal organ?

Liver

500

• Which planet rotates the fastest?

Jupiter

Riddles

100

• What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The letter M

200

• What has a neck but no head?

A bottle

300

• I’m not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

 Fire 

400

• What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?

A stamp 

500

letter word that has 'letters' in it?

Letters

who am I

100

Lifeless eyes on my smiling face and watch your child's sleeping place.
In their dreams they hold me tight.
Who am I?

A teddy bear 

200

Tomorrow I am surely here, yesterday I am found as well.
Today I am gone. Who am I?

The letter R

300

I flop around on sticks and sometimes you cheer me as I do,
I desperately need a white powder to do what needs to be done,
and looking at me you might wonder why I look like I am about to go swimming.
Who am I?

A gymnast 

400

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.
Who am I?

The daughter 

500

My neighbor makes mistakes. I get rid of them.
Who am I?

An eraser