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Games, activities and teaching ideas > Can you identify the following words?
Can you identify the following words?
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elderberrywine
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Can you identify the following words?
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For fun! What are the words behind the following definitions? Who answers first?
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To leave a place quickly because you are in danger or afraid
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Spoken or written in strict privacy or secrecy
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The hard part of a bird’s mouth
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To expect something or prepare for it before it happens
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To regularly travel between work and home
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To give money, food, clothes, organs in order to help
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To show objects like paintings and sculptures in public
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A person who is allowed to practice law
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To start an important activity or project
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Unable to talk
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5 May 2016
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georginasantanna
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To regularly travel between work and home - commute A person who is allowed to practice law - lawyer Unable to talk - mute or speechless To give money, food, clothes, organs in order to help - to donate Spoken or written in strict privacy or secrecy - top secret And I don �t know about the others but this was a good exercise to put my memory at work! |
5 May 2016
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SVieira
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My suggestions (I subscribe to all of Georgina �s and add the following): The hard part of a bird�s mouth - beak To expect something or prepare for it before it happens - to anticipate To show objects like paintings and sculptures in public - to exhibit To start an important activity or project - to undertake Considering Georgina �s suggestions and mine, only one word is left to be found - that �s the one behind "To leave a place quickly because you are in danger or afraid". I am really curious about it!...
Sandra
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5 May 2016
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kwsp
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To leave a place quickly because you are in danger or afraid could be "flee" |
5 May 2016
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alien boy
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Here are a few extra ideas.... 1. skedaddle/cut and run 2. in confidence/confidentially 3. a bill 4. to have �all bases covered � 5. go to and fro 6. bequeath (in one �s will) 7. display 8. solicitor, lawyer, barrister 9. embark 10. dumbstruck Cheers, AB |
5 May 2016
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Apodo
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My contribution: Evacuate in confidence (confidential) A bird has a beak. Water birds have bills. To be proactive to commute to donate to exhibit lawyer, solicitor, barrister to launch, to embark on mute |
5 May 2016
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balmau
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Flee Confidentially Beak Foresee Commute Donate Exhibit Lawyer Take up Speechless THANKS!  |
6 May 2016
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elderberrywine
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Perfect! Thank you!
I was thinking of "launch" for the second last word, but I suppose your suggestions are just as good.
I �ll give you another one.
The aim is to test whether my definitions are good enough for a game with words. The more difficult and abstract the words are, the more difficult it is to define them in a very clear way that leaves no room for alternatives.
So you are, in fact, my guinea pigs ... 
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6 May 2016
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Apodo
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@elderberry wine One of my suggestions was "launch"  |
7 May 2016
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