New words can be made by combining existing words and this activity looks at some of those combinations, made in two different ways: Compounds & Blends.

Compounds

These are words made out of two others, e.g.
motor + bike = motorbike; cross + word = crossword

See how many of these nouns you can make into pairs to make a compound word. You have sixty seconds! Click the start button to restart the timer.

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Bullet Now - can you make up 15 more words by finding other nouns that will go with the second list? Eg bump + start is a way to start a car which will not go. You can put the nouns listed at the back or the front - or both! Eg sea + shell and shell + shock.

 

Now look at the 'Blends' on the next page.

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