Practice: Skippy Fishback, Chapter 3
Match with the pictures:
[ passenger – pierced – hurricane – knock over – spin – skull – suck – arrow – rock – charge – overboard – tattered ]
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Match the synonyms:
- flap
- display
- intend
- slam
- rush
- ricochet
- grow
- yank
- monstrous
- whirl
- beast
- tattered
- bounce off
- spin, twist
- show
- ripped
- pull hard
- huge
- crash, smash
- plan to do
- flutter
- become
- big animal
- hurry
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Match with the definition:
[ ominous - block - beg for mercy - drive away -
precarious - violent - simultaneous - leap into action -
relentless - helpless - figure - overboard ]
__ plead for someone to stop
__ make someone or something leave
__ without stopping
__ when you are unable to do anything for yourself
__ not on the boat, in the water
__ to stop or obstruct
__ happening at the same time
__ to start to do something
__ not sturdy, not safe
__ scary, when something bad is going to happen
__ to think, assume, suppose
__ mean, rough, forceful; for example, fighting and killing
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Finish the sentences with these words:
[ violent - relentless - pierced - passengers - spin - precarious - blocked - simultaneously - monstrous - helpless ]
1. All of the _____________ on the train were going to Paris.
2. The man looked very _____________ on the tightrope.
3. The phone rang and someone knocked on the door ______________, so I didn’t know what to do first.
4. The storm was ___________. I thought it was never going to end.
5. I don’t like movies with lots of blood because they are too ______________.
6. A baby is ___________ because he can’t do anything by himself.
7. My sister wants to get her bellybutton ____________.
8. That dog is as big as a horse! He is ____________!
9. If you _______________ in circles, you will get dizzy.
10. During the basketball game, I couldn’t make a point because the big fat kid ____________ me.
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