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Advanced level puzzles

Here is a crossword for scientists.... but not only for scientists. The scientific words you will need to use to complete this crossword are all quite well known, and many of them are used in everyday life too. Nevertheless, you may need to use a dictionary.

CLUES ACROSS
4. Energy, force.
7. Scientific work in new fields.
8. A source of salt.
9. A unit of electrical resistance.
11. A new exercise carried out by a scientist.
12 & 13 A serious problem affecting forests.
14. Carbon monoxide.
16. Where many scientists do their work.
19. Very small unit of living matter.
20. Unit of electrical power.
21. Liquid necessary for most forms of life.

CLUES DOWN
1. Without it, things remain theories.
2. To become solid.
3. Mr. Nobel created one for physics.
4. Men whose field of work is physics.
5. Unwanted matter.
6. It occurs when certain chemicals are brought together.
10. The profession in which we find doctors and nurses. (adj.)
12. Chemical symbol for a precious metal associated with the Klondike.
15. Functional part of a living body.
16. Heavy metal, once used to make pipes.
17. A fan can be used to _______ air.
18. Popular name for oxidized iron.

SPECTRUM-on-line GRADED ENGLISH CROSSWORDS

Advanced level English:
SCIENCE CROSSWORD
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MARTIN’S JOB
Martin has just got a new job, but what is it? To find out, solve the clues below, and put in the answers on the appropriate lines.
The first letters of each word will spell Martin's new profession (reading vertically)
Take care: THE CLUES ARE NOT IN THE SAME ORDER AS THE ANSWERS!
CLUES:
1 Invoice, note.
2 Precise and exact
3 Liquid used in pens
4 Disease
5 It flies in the sky
6 Unpleasant, disagreeable
7 Noun from “long”
8 Covering over a building
9 Renewal, rebuilding.

_ _ _ G _ _
_ _ _ _ E _ _
_ _ _ L
_ _ _ _ V _ _ _ _ _
_ _ C _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _
_ E _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ S _ _

BRAIN TEASER
An explorer left his camp and walked due south for a mile. Then he turned and walked due east for a mile. Then he saw a bear. Fearing for his safety, he therefore turned and walked due north for a mile, and found himself back where he started, at his camp.
What colour was the bear?

SOUNDS THE SAME
For each of the words below, there is another word which sounds the same but is written differently. How many of them can you find in two minutes?:
HEAR PEAR HIRE WRITE SAW STEEL SORT
ALLLOWED MIND STAIRS COURT DRAWER FORT BORED EYE HOLE BREAK BLUE

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Intermediate level puzzles

WORKING LANGUAGE
A number of proverbs and idiomatic expressions in English are taken from the world of work. Here are some common examples; see if you can correctly fill in the missing words from the list below!
The meaning of each expression is given in italics.

To ____________ things out.
To reach a conclusion by serious discussion.
To hit the ________ on the head.
To get something exactly right.
To __________ things up.
To do something very badly.
To throw a _____________ in the works.
To cause an unnecessary (or deliberate) problem.
That’s just the thin end of the ______________
That’s just the start of something that will become much bigger or more serious
A ____________ in time saves nine.
It is better to prevent mistakes and difficulties, than to have to solve them later.
To get down to the __________________
To look at the serious details of something.

You ought to _________ up your English before your trip!
You ought to revise your English before your trip!

Words to add: spanner, stitch*, screw, hammer, nuts and bolts, brush, nail, wedge.

* One uses a needle to sew or to stitch (make stitches)

Here are some of the tools and objects to which the expressions refer.

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MISSING LINKS
On each of the following lines, the missing word in the middle means the same as the two words either side of it.

NEAR		SHUT
HIT		RHYTHM
UNIT OF MONEY		UNIT OF WEIGHT
COMPETITION		GO WELL TOGETHER

PAIR THE WORDS

On the right you can find eight things commonly associated with the house. they are all compound words (words made up of two elements). Can you pair them up correctly, to find the eight items that are here:

ARM MACHINE BIN CENTRAL BED CHAIR PLACE CUP ROOM VISION TELE FIRE HEATING DUST WASHING BOARD


Low intermediate level puzzles

RHYMING WORDS
Can you pair these words , so that the two words in each pair rhyme with each other.
For instance SAW rhymes with STORE
MALE SAW HALF NEAR
COAT SLOW BEER CARE
THOUGH SORT SUIT NOTE
HAIR LAUGH DOOR POWER
FOUR FAIL FIGHT STORE
BOOT WRITE OUR THOUGHT
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SPORTING MIX
Here are eight popular sports. Can you unscramble the letters, and find out what they are?

GATISNK     LOVELYBALL
GINSIK     ECI CHOKEY
BYGUR       STABLEBLAK
NISTEN       FOTOLABL


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