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NPR Sunday Puzzle from yesterday is available on my ESL blog! Have fun playing with these alphabet letters and categories!

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I'm going to name something — like a state, state capital, flower, etc. You name something else in the same category as my thing that has the same number of letters as mine ... and that starts and ends with the same letters as mine. Example: Augusta --> ATLANTA [both state capitals, both 7 letters long, both start and end in "A"]   *Picture Source: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Categories-Naming-Task-speech-291725 1. Alabama 2. Pansy 3. Forty 4. Raven 5. Rupee 6. Baylor 7. Sudan 8. Jackson 9. Cocoa Puffs   Answer Keys     1.   Arizona (7-letter US State that starts & ends with A)     2.   Peony (5-letter flower that starts with P & ends with Y)     3.   Fifty (5-letter number that starts with f & ends with Y)     4.   Robin (5-letter bird name that starts with R & ends with N) 5.   Ruble (5-letter international currency name that starts...

The latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR! Find synonyms using the anagram of the given words!

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I'm going to give you two 4-letter words. Rearrange the letters of one of them to get a synonym of the other. Which word is the synonym and which is the anagram is for you to discover. Ex. SOUP WORK --> OPUS (anagram of "soup," synonym of "work")     1. THIN ELAN 2. TURN EVER 3. DRAG HULA 4. RASP MAST 5. DUNE BARE 6. WHIP GOLF 7. PLUM CLOD 8. LEAP RING 9. DRAB POET 10. FUSE LEWD 11. GONE FELT   Answer Keys          1.   LEAN (anagram of “ELAN”, synonym of “THIN”)       2. VEER (anagram of “EVER”, synonym of “TURN)      3. HAUL (anagram of “HULA”, synonym of “DRAG)      4. SPAR (anagram of “RASP”, synonym of “MAST”)      5. NUDE (anagram of “DUNE”, synonym of “BARE”)      6. FLOG (anagram of “GOLF”, synonym of “WHIP”)      7. LUMP (anagram of “PLUM”, synonym of “CLOD”)  ...

Let's make words using the given letters!

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  D J G E Y I W N   Create 10 words by selecting the letters provided. Letters can only be used once per word. No curse words, sorry.           Answer Keys       1.   Win     2.   Jig     3.   New     4.   Dew     5.   Neg     6.   Wig     7.   In      8.   EW     9.   Dig     10. G in

Can you name the U.S. cities that make a rhyming phrase? Here's the latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR.

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Every answer today is a two-word rhyming phrase that starts with the name of a U.S. city. Ex. Alternatives to paper clips in Florida --> NAPLES STAPLES   1. Strip of breakfast meat in Georgia 2. Home for a king or queen in Texas 3. Overhead part of a room in West Virginia 4. Doing the rumba or waltz in Michigan 5. A lucky one has four leaves in Delaware 6. A herding dog in North Carolina 7. Marriage ceremony in Pennsylvania 8. Goods carried on a ship in North Dakota 9. Side of a road in Colorado 10. Coverings for holes in clothing in Mississippi 11. A metric unit in Hawaii 12. Place where planes land in Connecticut   Answer Keys     1.    Macon Bacon     2.    Dallas Palace     3.    Wheeling Ceiling     4.    Lancing Dancing     5.    Dover Clover     6.    Raleigh Collie     7.    Reading ...