Easy as Pie

Complete these traditional comparisons, from pies to Punch.

1. As ... as houses.

2. As ... as an ox.

3. As ... as a dog.

4. As ... as a pikestaff.

5. As ... as the nose on your face.

6. As ... as a whistle.

Suggested Words (A-Z)

Clean. Loyal. Plain. Plain. Safe. Strong.

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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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