Rules to be followed:

CRISS-CROSS OVER
MECHANICS:

• Popsicle sticks with EVEN NUMBERS WILL BE IN GROUP 1, On the other

hand, popsicle sticks with ODD NUMBERS WILL BE IN GROUP 2

• Form a circle within your groups

• Each group will only be given 2 MINUTES to complete the task

• After 2 minutes all crossword puzzles will be posted on the board

NOTE: failure to do so will have a deduction of 2 points

 TIME LIMIT:
TIME’S
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2 minutes
 ACROSS

PENTHOUSE 4 Is a borrowed word from Anglo-

Norman “pentiz” which means an
attached building or home; is an
apartment or unit on the highest floor of an
apartment building
BIOLOGY 6 The study of living organism

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY 8 A person who is easy going

BRUNCH 10 Breakfast + Lunch

DOWN

SELF-SERVICE 1 Serving for oneself

2 Shorter term for cell phone and
PHONE
telephone
USB 3 Shorter term for “Universal Serial Bus”
GEOGRAPHY 5 The study of the Earth and its
features, its inhabitants, and its
phenomena
FLU 7 Shorter term for influenza

LRT 9 Shorter term for Light Rail Transit

 Do you think these words
What
Can youhave you observed
tell these words are
Do have
you think these words are
a deeper meaning
withanother
from the different words
language out
borrowed words?
according to how it was
fromwithin the puzzle?
the definitions given?
formed?
FLASH TIME
 Flu
A. Shorter term for influenza

B. Is not a contagious disease

C. Hits your kidneys

D. None of the above

 Flu
A. Shorter term for influenza

B. Is not a contagious disease

C. Hits your kidneys

D. None of the above

 Brunch
A. The lack of food intake

B. Combination of the words

“Breakfast” and “Lunch”

C. Is the most important meal of

the day

D. Both b and c
 Brunch
A. The lack of food intake

B. Combination of the words

“Breakfast” and “Lunch”

C. Is the most important meal of

the day

D. Both b and c
 Blackbird

A. A bird with black feathers

B. A European bird

C. Compounding of the
adjective “black” and noun
“bird”

D. Both b and c
 Blackbird

A. A bird with black feathers

B. A European bird

C. Compounding of the
adjective “black” and noun
“bird”

D. Both b and c
 Advertainment
A. A word for new advertisements

B. Entertainment purposes

C. Entertaining mediums

D. Blend of the words

“advertisement” and
“entertainment”
 Advertainment
A. A word for new advertisements

B. Entertainment purposes

C. Entertaining mediums

D. Blend of the words

“advertisement” and
“entertainment”
 Sitcom

A. Situational comedy

B. Situation comedy

C. Television set

D. Scripted
 Sitcom

A. Situational comedy

B. Situation comedy

C. Television set

D. Scripted
• What have you noticed with the
meaning of these words?

• Do you think these words

originated from other languages?

• Do you think these words have a

much deeper meaning?
 CLIPPING AND TRUNCATION
TRUNCATE - TO CUT SHORT

• Cutting off the beginning or the

end of the word to form another

Examples:
(tele)phone → Phone
Photo(graph) → Photo
(in)flu(enza) → Flu
 BLENDING
• Combining two words together to
form another word.
• First part of the first word is usually
fused with the last part of the second
word.

Examples:
Motor + Hotel → Motel
Turn + Swirl → Twirl
Smoke + Fog → Smog
 COMPOUNDING
• Combining two to three words to form
a full form.
• Some compound words use a hyphen
to separate the two or three words.

Examples:
Self + Service → Self-service
Happy + go + lucky → Happy-go-
lucky
Face + book → Facebook
 COMPOUNDING
• RHYMING COMPOUNDS
These words are compounded
from two rhyming words

Examples:
• Lovey + Dovey → Lovey-dovey
• Chiller + Killer → Chiller-killer
• Flip + Flop → Flipflop
 ACRONYMS
• Forming words through the initial
letter or syllables of several words
in succession.

Examples:
Light Rail Transit → LRT
Universal Serial Bus → USB
 FOLK ETYMOLOGY
• Changing the word partially or completely to make a more
familiar word.

Examples:
Cockroach - from the Spanish word the insect,
“curacha”, but later on changed to a short word cock +
roach.

Bridegroom - from the Old English word “bryd-guma”

which means “bride-man” (guma means “man”) after it
eventually became obsolete.
 DERIVATION
• creation of words by modification of a root without the
addition of other roots
• Uses the process of Affixation which covers both
prefixation and suffixation

Examples:
Un + Happy → unhappy
Mis + understood → misunderstood
 COINAGE
• Invented trade names for commercial products that become general
terms.
Examples:
Pampers → diaper
Xerox→ Photocopy

• Other sources include name of a person or a place.

• Eponyms or antonomasia are words that use of a proper name
to express a general idea

Examples:
Fahrenheit → Dutch–German–Polish physicist Daniel
Gabriel Fahrenheit
 BORROWING
• One of the most common
sources of getting new words in
English.
• That is the taking over of words
from other languages.

Examples:
Croissant (French)
Piano (Italian)
 BACKFORMATION
• Process of shortening a long
word by cutting off an affix to
form a new word.
• Usually noun to verb and vice
versa

Examples:
Babysit ← babysitter
Backform ← backforming
 CONVERSION
• Refers to the process of changing or converting the class of
a word without changing its form.

Examples:
Adjective to verb:
• I left my empty glass on the table.
• Can you empty the bin for me, please?

Verb to noun:
• I accidentally hit him in the face.
• He scored a hit in his first shot.
 ONOMATOPOEIA OR ECHOISM
• The formation of words by
imitating sounds.

Examples:
Splash
Meow
Roar
FLASH TIME
COCKROACH
a)Coinage
b)Etymology
c)Derivation
d)Borrowing
COCKROACH
a)Coinage
b)Etymology
c)Derivation
d)Borrowing
BUTTERFLY
a)Derivation
b)Clipping
c)Echoism
d)Compounding
BUTTERFLY
a)Derivation
b)Clipping
c)Echoism
d)Compounding
ILS
a)Acronym
b)Clipping
c)Blending
d)Etymology
ILS
a)Acronym
b)Clipping
c)Blending
d)Etymology
PAMPERS
a)Coinage
b)Creative spelling
c)Conversion
d)Compounding
PAMPERS
a)Coinage
b)Creative spelling
c)Conversion
d)Compounding
SCIFI
a)Clipping
b)Coinage
c)Borrowing
d)Compounding
SCIFI
a)Clipping
b)Coinage
c)Borrowing
d)Compounding