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TEST

Odd-one-out

2-3d Form

I. In each of these group of words, there’s an “odd-one-out”. Find them, their first letters spell the name of a holiday.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

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1

cup
boots
room
milk
house
meat
October
autumn
brother

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2

spoon
shoes
sofa
water
shop
fish
September
spring
sister

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3

fork
socks
bookcase
ice-cream
street
tea
Monday
spring
sister

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4

knife
hat
arm-chair
coffee
bank
potatoes
June
May
uncle

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5

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6

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7

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8

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9

Key:

Christmas: 1. cup; 2. hat; 3. room; 4. ice-cream; 5. street; 6. tea; 7. Monday; 8. autumn; 9. sister

II. In each of these group of words, there’s an “odd-one-out”. Find them, their first letters spell the name of the month.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

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1

moon
T-shirt
blue
eat
lion
boat
egg
cosmonaut

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2

stars
overcoat
violin
breakfast
tiger
sea
hen
rocket

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3

night
shorts
green
dinner
cat
river
chicken
engineer

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4

planets
sandals
purple
supper
mouse
lake
duck
driver

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5

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6

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7

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8

Key:

November: 1. night; 2. overcoat; 3. violin; 4. eat; 5. mouse; 6. boat; 7. egg; 8. rocket

III. In each of these group of words, there’s an “odd-one-out”. Find them, their first letters spell the name of an insect.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

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1

volleyball
mother
dinner
doctor
English
Russia
apple
lion
he they

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2

football
grandmother
lunch
teacher
America
London
fish
dog
they

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3

ball
aunt
table
nurse
Africa
Moscow
banana
cat
your

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4

basketball
uncle
breakfast
hospital
Asia
Berlin
banana
cow
we

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5

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6

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7

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8

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9

Key:

butterfly: 1. ball; 2. uncle; 3. table; 4. teacher; 5. English; 6. Russia; 7. fish; 8. lion; 9. your

By Tatyana Makhrina