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Vocabulary Compound nouns

1 Match (1–8) to (a–h) to make compound nouns.
Then match them to the pictures. 3 Complete the text with compound
nouns. Match a word from list A to
1 business a board a word from list B.
2 white b boat
3 snow A class class home
c sitter
4 space light speed white
d person
5 baby e ship
6 wind B board boats house
f mill
7 speed g work mates room work
8 home h mobile
Spaceship It’s ten o’clock, and I’m sitting in a
3 classroom at school. The teacher is writing the
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Babysitter answers to last night’s
homework homework on the whiteboard
I’m looking out of the window, where I
can see the sea. There are some
small but fast and noisy
5 windmill on the water. Classmates
There’s a tall white ligthhouse
on the cliff that warns ships about
4 the dangerous rocks below. It looks
like a beautiful day. I wish my
6 speedboat and I could go
outside!
7 Speedboat 8 4 Complete the definitions with
compound nouns. Use the singular
or plural forms.
1 A windmill is a tall building
whiteboard that uses wind power for
energy.
Bussinessperson snowmobile 2 A vigilant is a person who looks
2 Complete the compound nouns in the box. Then use these after a building, like a school.
words to complete the sentences.
businessperson classmate homework
3 Snowmobile
skyscraperare small vehicles
speedb _o windmill
_a t that people use to travel across
snow.
4 A spaceship is a
vehicle that travels in space.
1 The world’s fastest speedboat travelled over the water 5 A ligthhouse is a tall building
at a speed of 511 km/h! that shines a light out to sea to
2 According to my classmate, our Maths teacher is warn ships of dangerous rocks.
planning a surprise test! 6 A babysister is a person
3 I’m sure my English homework is getting easier who looks after children while
and easier! their parents are out.
4 I was born in a big windmill in the country. Now I
live in flat in a tall skyscraper in the city.
5 My mum is a very ambitious person. She’s a
businessperson and she wants to start her own
company.