Worksheet 26: Improving dictionary skills

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Date / / Teacher

Looking up words in a dictionary can blow your fuses if you lack the practice. Revise:
Student’s Book, p. 213

Do the exercises below so that using a dictionary becomes as easy as a piece of cake!

Complete the definitions with a dictionary term.

a. The word you are looking up is called an .
b. You look at the of a word to know its meaning.
c. The helps to know how to say the word.
d. You can find out if the word is a noun or a verb. That is called the word’s .

To quickly look up a word in the dictionary, think about where it will appear: the front, the
middle or the back of the dictionary? Remember that dictionaries are organised in alphabetical
order. Organise the words in the box in the table below.

soul-sucking * plot * youthquake * cater * mow * widely * debris * literacy * sheer * ingenious * blur * no matter * ease
all-in-all * façade * orcs * have access to * grit * unwilling * hop * rewire * malcontent * trend * fire sb up

A-F G-L M-R S-Z

Go to your Engaging Dictionary on page 213 of your student’s book, look up the words in bold
in exercise 3. Then, write the corresponding dictionary entries as in the example.
e.g. barely /'beəli/ adv only just
a. g.

b. h.

c.

d.

e.

f.
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