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Week 2 - Compound Nouns Exercise Sheet 2

The document provides a matching exercise where students must match 21 compound words to their definitions. The compound words are made up of two or more words joined together, such as "daybreak", "dishwasher", "heartbeat", and "homework". The correct matches are provided in a key at the bottom.

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Week 2 - Compound Nouns Exercise Sheet 2

The document provides a matching exercise where students must match 21 compound words to their definitions. The compound words are made up of two or more words joined together, such as "daybreak", "dishwasher", "heartbeat", and "homework". The correct matches are provided in a key at the bottom.

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  • Compound Nouns
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# Compound Nouns

1
Match the correct words from the box with each of the words below. The clues will help you.

bag ball beat board boat break burns dog fish head house lid moon
overs power road snake stool time walk washer work

1. day__________ The time in the morning when light first appears.

2. dish__________ A machine for washing dishes.

3. heart_________ Intense and overwhelming sorrow, grief.

4. home_________ Schoolwork done out of lessons especially at home.

5. honey________ A holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple.

6. horse_________ The power exerted by a horse in pulling.

7. jelly__________ A fish having a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body with trailing tentacles

8. left___________ Food remaining from a previous meal.

9. light__________ A tall structure topped by a powerful light.

10. side__________ Facial hair that has grown down the side of a man’s face.

11. side__________ A paved walkway.

12. eye__________ The fold of skin over the eye.

13. egg__________ An intellectual.

14. bed__________ The time at which one goes to bed.

15. bill__________ A panel for the display of advertisement in public places.

16. bull__________ An animal with a stocky body.

17. soft__________ A variation of baseball.

18. cross_________ A road that intersects another road.

19. hand_________ A woman’s purse

20. tug__________ A vehicle designed for towing or pushing larger vessels.

21. rattle_________ A venomous animal.

22. toad__________ An inedible or poisonous fungus.

BK
Key:
daybreak

dishwasher

heartbeat

homework

honeymoon

horsepower

jellyfish

leftovers

lighthouse

sideburns

sidewalk

eyelid

egghead

bedtime

billboard

bulldog

softball

crossroad

handbag

tugboat

rattlesnake

toadstool

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