SPELLING BEE COMPETITION-2015

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH
GROUP-1

Q1: Use the correct form of plurals.

a. All the _____________wore red dresses. ( child/children)

b. The cook has a collection of sharp _____________. ( knives/knife)

Q2: Fill the given blanks with the correct homophones.

a. My father loves to swim in the _____________________. (sea/see)

b. Ravi wants to __________ a new pencil. ( bye/buy)

Q3: Circle the correct word that has been spelt correctly in each row.

a. Ummbrella/ Umbrella/Umbrela
 b. Parrots / Paroots/ Paarots

Q4: An anagram is a word made by rearranging the letters of another word. Make anagrams
by rearranging the letters of the given words. Use the given clues.

Ex. Thing night when you see stars.

a. Late ____________ a story

b. Dear ____________ what you do with a book

Q5: Find the wrongly spelt word:

a. Mother, father, sistr. Brother

b. Garden, tres, birds, rain

Q6: Fill the missing alphabets:

Ex. S_hool School

a. Pla__ts
b. Bro__her
GROUP-2

Q1: Tick the most appropriate plurals of the singular nouns in bold.

a. Splash splashs/splashes/splashiz
b. Key kees/keys/keies

Q2: Choose the correctly spelt word.

a. Obediennt, obedient, obediient.

b. Awarness, awarenees, awareness.

Q3: Find the correct degree of adjectives from the options given in each sentence.

a. An elephant is (big/bigger) than mouse.

b. Kolkata is the (large/larger/largest) city of India.

Q4: Correct the misspelt words in the sentences.

Ex. There is know light in the house. No

a. I put sum oil in my hair.

b. Hurrah! We have one the match.

Q5: Replace the words in bold type with suitable words from the options given below.

a. I have some very nice friends. ( helpful/bad)

b. There is a vacant room in my house. ( small/empty)

Q6: Fill the missing alphabet.

Ex. D____NGER Danger

a. SIENT
b. POSIBLE
GROUP-3

Q1: Pick out the word which is similar in meaning to the word in bold.

a. Conceal
Deceive
Hide
Mislead
Reveal
b. Edible
Expensive
Tasty
Eatable
Pure

Q2: Use the prefixes: -un, -im, -dis, -mis, -ir or il to make antonyms of the following
words.

Ex. Possible impossible

a. Perfect b. obedient

Q3: In each of the following sentences one word has been wrongly spelt. Find out such words
and correct the spelling.

a. He herd a loud noise.

b. The meating continued for many hours.

Q4: Fill in the blanks with words which describe the persons and things in each following
sentence.

Ex. A __HONEST__ (honesty/honest) person. A person who is loyal and true.

a. A _______________ (lengthy/length) story. A story which is very long.

b. A _______________(cloudy/cloud) sky. Sky covered with clouds.

Q5: Fill in the blanks with the right words from the brackets:

a. Prem is always on time. He is very ________________.(regular/punctual)

b. We must drink ____________water. (clean/clear)

Q6: Fill the missing alphabets:

Ex. PR___CESS Process

a. CONCLSION
b. DECISINS
GROUP-4

Q1: Encircle the correct spelling of the word.

a. Disobeedient / disobedient / disobedeint .
b. Generation / geneeration / generation.

Q2: Correct the given sentences:

a. We are attending the lectires regularly.
b. My proffesors had given lots of research work.

Q3: Find the missing alphabets.

a. SURRUNDINGS
b. OISSION

Q4: Anagram (make a new word with the help of the given words)
a. Thicken
b. Rebuild

Q5: Read carefully and find out the wrong spelling:

a. Communities/ families / varietees
b. Presentation / afliation / celebration

Q6: Unscramble the words:

a. Nkmyeo
b. vberea