Fun with Words

The puzzles and Word games on this page are designed to be printed, cut-out and pasted on card (with answers at the back?) for use in the classroom, perhaps as lesson fillers, or as cards for quizzes.

All material on this page is posted with the permission of Goran Tomic, and appeared originally on the Tesol Arabia newsgroup.

Here's a fun exercise with 3-letter words: Can you name ten body parts of three letters each? Can you do this within 3 minutes?

ANSWER:

lip, eye, ear, arm, hip, leg, toe, rib, gum, gut

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?

Answer:

Heroine

There is a logical sequence to these words. Can you complete the sequence with one of the words from the list below?

TOWER
OCULI
DATED
AWARD
YODEL

What one of these would be next?

LAGER
ZONED
SPITE
THERE
HAIRY

Answer:

SPITE

Giving the sequence (Read from the initial and last letters of each word, top to bottom),

TODAYS RIDDLE

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