Level Thirteen Unit Five
Anthony K Whelan anthonykwhelan@yahoo.com
“Indian Attack� The woman listened carefully. The sound had come from oustside the chimney of their log cabin. Her trapper husband had earlier in the day noticed the sign of an indian war party. He had gone to explore the nearby forest when he had seen the painted feathers and the worn trail. They were both now tense and frightened. This time they heard the mufffled sound of a voice, and then a low whistle and they now knew they were surrounded and could be attacked at any time.The red indians with weight of numbers forced the solid oak door and had just entered the hut when the mountain men arrived to rescue the besieged pair. entered
sign
solid
whistle listened
surrounded worn
woman
noticed
chimney
explore
featheras
voice
forced
weight
A. Write all of the list words into your dictionaries or work books. B. Which list words are related to these smaller words? a). ten
b). round
c). eight
d). lid
e). ice
f). man
g). his
h). ore
C. Word families: sign
en
re de con
ing
sign as
ment ed al age er ature
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D. Unjumble these words: a). uondderurs
b). ilosd
c). nwro
d). ivoec
e). ghtiew
f). ngis
g). deretne
h). stenedil
i). condeti
j). ncyehim
k). lexpeor
l). olsid
m). atehfser
n). htlewis
o). mwnao
E. Which list words contain: a). four
b). six letters
F.
c). seven letters
i
Write out all the list-words containing an ‘ ’ and an ‘
e
’. They can be in any part of the word.
G. Write out all the list-words which contain two or more “
e
’s”.
Some possible answers to C: (They’re upside down) ensign resigned designer consign assign
insignia design resign consigned assigned
resignation designed resignation consignment assignment
signal designation signing signor monsignor