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Our English worksheets and activities accompany the Oxford English Dictionary for Schools.  The Oxford English Dictionary for Schools is a unique KS3 dictionary covering all secondary curriculum words and example sentences from the best children's books included in the dictionary entries.
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Activity 1 - What is in your dictionary?

Activity 2 - Headword Hunt
Activity 3 - Guide words
Activity 4 -  Pronunciation
Activity 5 - Word classes
Activity 6 - Finding the definition
Activity 7 - More than one meaning
Activity 8 - Same spelling
Activity 9 - Register
Activity 10 - Subject labels
Activity 11 - How to use this word
Activity 12 - New words
Activity 13 - Word origins
Activity 14 - Latin words in English
Activity 15 - Latin words in French
Activity 16 - Greek and Latin word race
Actvity 17 - Early English
Activity 18 - Old English
Activity 19 - Norman Conquest
Activity 20 - French words in English
Activity 21 - Words from Europe
Activity 22 - Words from all over the world
Activity 23 - American English
Activity 24 - Australian English
Activity 25 - Digging out the roots
Activity 26 - Compound words
Activity 27 - Word families
Activity 28 - Blending words
Activity 29 - Clipping
Activity 30 - Prefixes
Activity 31 - More prefixes
Activity 32 - Suffixes
Activity 33 - Abbreviations and acronyms
Activity 34 - Who's Who?
Activity 35 - Synonyms
Activity 36 - Antonyms
Activity 37 - Odd one out
Activity 38 - Unusual words
Activity 39 - Language of horror
Activity 40 - Colours
Activity 41 - Collective nouns
Activity 42 - Describing stories
Activity 43 - Creating characters
Activity 44 - Overused words
Activity 45 - Language of legends
Activity 46 - Literature and poetry
Activity 47 - Dramatic language
Activity 48 - Computing vocabulary
Activity 49 - Homophones
Activity 50 - More homophones
Activity 51 - Confusables
Activity 52 - Spelling
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For all fans of crosswords and similar word games, with two quick and handy ways to help solve some of those trickier clues. Both the solvers search the whole dictionary to suggest the answers you’re puzzling over.

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