Put the correct words from this table into the article.
1. | (a) | favorite | (b) | favored | (c) | favoring | (d) | favor |
2. | (a) | much | (b) | most | (c) | many | (d) | more |
3. | (a) | religion | (b) | religious | (c) | religiously | (d) | religions |
4. | (a) | speed | (b) | quick | (c) | fast | (d) | hurry |
5. | (a) | wasting | (b) | wasted | (c) | waste of | (d) | wastes |
6. | (a) | topping | (b) | tops | (c) | top dog | (d) | topped |
7. | (a) | known | (b) | knower | (c) | knowing | (d) | knows |
8. | (a) | similarity | (b) | simile | (c) | simulation | (d) | similar |
9. | (a) | running | (b) | run | (c) | runner | (d) | ran |
10. | (a) | follow | (b) | cross | (c) | cook | (d) | eat |
11. | (a) | go | (b) | do | (c) | ho | (d) | so |
12. | (a) | after | (b) | ahead | (c) | next | (d) | then |
SPELLING
Spell the jumbled words (from the text) correctly.
Paragraph 1 | |
1. | a favorite of echlnrdi |
2. | all smothered with purys |
3. | only the simsplet of food |
4. | Instead of antgwis food |
5. | people pdepot their pancakes |
6. | Few people awasoynd fast |
Paragraph 2 | |
7. | not so well okwnn |
8. | more failirma |
9. | different evsten |
10. | a pancake that is still aticnt |
11. | grfiyn pan |
12. | the next to get riedarm |
PUT THE TEXT BACK TOGETHER
Number these lines in the correct order.
( ) | Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day are not so well known in the United States. Americans are more familiar |
( ) | race with a frying pan and toss the pancakes as they run. The winner is the first person to cross the finishing |
( ) | be thrown away. Instead of wasting food, people traditionally used these ingredients to make pancakes. It became a |
( 1 ) | Pancake Day is a favorite of children in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It is on this day they get |
( ) | the 40 days of Lent, people used to fast and eat only the simplest of food. Things like eggs, milk and sugar had to |
( ) | with Mardi Gras, which is also on the day before Ash Wednesday and is a very similar celebration. Different countries |
( ) | eat for another 40 days. Few people nowadays fast for 40 days. |
( ) | the coin will be rich and the person who finds the ring will be the next to get married. |
( ) | their kitchens. In Newfoundland, Canada, the cook puts a ring or a coin in the pancakes. The person who finds |
( ) | sauce. It is also called Shrove Tuesday. This is a religious holiday on the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. During |
( ) | line with a pancake that is still intact. Children like to have a go at tossing the hot pancakes out of the frying pan in |
( ) | to eat as many pancakes as they want – all smothered with syrup, or lemon and sugar, or strawberry |
( ) | mini celebration and people topped their pancakes with delicious things they could not |
( ) | hold different events for Pancake Day. In England, some towns have pancake races. People must run a |
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