Easy as Pie

Complete these traditional comparisons, from pies to Punch.

1. As playful as ...

2. As quick as ...

3. As tight as ...

4. As old as ...

5. As cool as ...

6. As black as ...

Suggested Words (A-Z)

Coal. Cucumber. Drum. Flash. Hills. Kitten.

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Clay Lane Think and Speak

Clay Lane

January 20 NS

January 7 OS

There’s Nae Good Luck in Durham Gaol : On his visits to Durham Gaol, prison reformer John Howard found conditions that were all too familiar.

The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.

Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.

England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.

Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.

Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.

An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.

Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.

Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.

Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.

Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.

Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.

Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?

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