Easy as Pie

Complete these traditional comparisons, from pies to Punch.

1. As ... as Punch.

2. As ... as a brush.

3. As ... as ice.

4. As ... as a flash.

5. As ... as houses.

6. As ... as a dog.

Suggested Words (A-Z)

Cold. Daft. Loyal. Pleased. Quick. Safe.

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Clay Lane Think and Speak

Clay Lane

October 21 NS

October 8 OS

Florence Nightingale : Florence used her logical mind and society connections to save thousands of lives in the Crimean War.

The Character of Horatio Lord Nelson : High praise from someone who knew him better than most.

The Geordie Lamp : The engineer put his own life on the line for the safety of his fellow-workers in the coal industry.

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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