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cheese cheese
chickenpox
cheeses
Chickenpox is on ittness. You get
Cheese is o hord or soft food mode from milk.
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fever ond red spots on gour skin.
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chiefs A chief is the [eoder of o group of people.
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A chemist is o person who
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children A chitd is o goung bog or gir[.
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chimneg cherries
A cherrg is o smoll round fruit with o stone in the middle. Cherries con be red, gellow
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chest
chests I Your chest is the front port of gour bodg between gour necl< ond Uour tummg. (See poge 174.) 2 A chest is o strong box with o [id.
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breok it up. Chew your food well before you swallow it.
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chimnegs
A chimneg is on opening in o roof obove o fire. Smoke goes up througl' the chimneu into the oir.
chimponzee
chimponzees
A chimponzee is o tgpe of
Africon ope. Chimponzees ore smoller thon gorittos.
chew
chews, chewing, chewed When gou chew something, gou keep biting it with gour teeth to
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chie k chicks A chick is o bobg bird.
chicl<en
chickens A chicken is o [orge bird kept bg formers. Chickens give us eggs ond meot.
chin
chins Your chin is the bottom port of go foce, betow gour mouth. (See poge 174.)
chip
chips
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is o long piece of pototo fried in oi[. 2lf o cup hos o chip in it, there is smol[ piece missing. 3 A chip is olso o verg smot[ piece metol thot mokes o computer worll
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hotel hotels
you con stog in o hotel when gou ore owog from home. A hotet hos lots of bedrooms.
hour
hours
An hour is mqde up of 60 minutes. There ore 24 hours in o dog.
house
houses A house is o building thot people [ive in. lt hos severoI rooms.
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When Uou sog how something hoppens, gou exploin the wog thot it hoppens.
huge lf something is huge, is verg, verg big.
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An elephant is a huge animal.
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humons A humon is o person.
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hungrier, hungriest When gou ore hungrg, gou wqnt something to eot.
I'm hungry! I haven,t eaten for hours.
hunt
hunts, hunting, hunted qn onimot hunts, it choses
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ond l<ills onother onimol. Owls hunt for mice at night. 2 When gou hunt for something. you look evergwhere for it. I'm hunting for my socks.
hurrg
hurries, hurrging,.hu
lf gou hurrg, gou move or do something guicklg. We were late, so we hurried to schoo..
hurt
hurts, hurting, hurt
lf something hurts, gou feel poin there. My arm hurts where I banged it.
husbonds A husbond is o mqrried mon.
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hungrg
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hung See hong.
E'ta;mdrcef hundreds A hundred is the number 100. The number 342 hos 3 hundreds, 4 tens ond 2 units.
hut huts A hut is o smoll building. tt is usu mqde of wood.
hutch
hutches A hutch is o kind of coge mode
wood ond metol. Pet robbits hutches.
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SeCfet
seols A seoI is on onimol with short fur. iJElllJ Seols [ive in tlYE lll n 0f the seo ond \ on lond.
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SeOrCh seorches, seorching, seorched lf gou seorch for something, gou lool< corefuttg for it. I've searched everywhere for my watch but I can't find it!
seoside
seed
seeds
A seed is o smoll, hord object in rre fruit of o ptont. When it is ripe, it : grow in the ground into o new pl: seeks, seeking, Sought lf gou seek something, gou look
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for it. The pirate was seeking the buried
SeOSOn seosons
treasure.
The geor is divided into four ports colled seosons. The four seosons ore col[ed spring, summer, outumn ond winter.
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sees, seeing, sow, seen I When Uou see something, Uour eues notice it. 2 lf gou go to see someone, Uou them.
The seoside is ong ploce beside the
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A seot is somewhere thot gou sit.
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secrets A secret is something thot onlg few people know obout.
Seem
seems, seeming, seemed lf something seems to be true, i: looks os if it is true. Bronwen seems shy, but she's not. The cat seems to be hungry.
Seen See see. SeeSOW seesows A seesow is on outdoor tog. Or: child sits ot eoch end of o long piece of wood. Theg go up ond down in turn.
SeCOnd seconds
I A second is o smo[[ omount of time. There ore 60 seconds in o minute. 2 The second in o list of things comes just ofter the first.
se[fish Se[fish people onlg core obout themselves.
Your fovourite is the one gou like best. Blue is my
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favourite colour.
foxes
You use o fox to send o copg of letter or picture to someone.
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feors, feoring, feored lf uou feor someone or sorr.
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