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The Power of Words 💪

Words are like tools in a toolbox 🧰. The more words you own, the easier it is to say exactly what you mean. In this chapter you will collect new words with pictures, fix tricky spellings, catch sneaky homophones and crack funny idioms.

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Part 1 · Word Power

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Part 2 · Spellings

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Part 3 · Homophones

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Part 4 · Idioms

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Word Power 🗂️

Word Power means knowing lots of words — and knowing exactly which one to use. Learn them in groups (feelings, animals, things at home) and your brain remembers them much faster.

😊 A. Words for how we feel

Tap a card to flip it and see the meaning. Tap 🔊 to hear the word.

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Golden tip: never write only "I was sad". Choose the exact feeling — disappointed (I expected something better), lonely (nobody was with me), nervous (something scary is coming). Exact words score marks in the IEO!

🐾 B. The animal world

IEO loves animal words — babies, homes, sounds and groups.

👶 Babies of animals

🐄 Cow → calf

🐕 Dog → puppy

🐈 Cat → kitten

🐎 Horse → foal

🐑 Sheep → lamb

🐐 Goat → kid

🦆 Duck → duckling

🐓 Hen → chick

🦁 Lion → cub

🐸 Frog → tadpole

🦋 Butterfly → caterpillar

🦘 Kangaroo → joey

🏠 Homes of animals

🐝 Bee → hive

🐦 Bird → nest

🐎 Horse → stable

🐕 Dog → kennel

🦁 Lion → den

🐇 Rabbit → burrow

🕷️ Spider → web

🐜 Ant → anthill

🐖 Pig → sty

🦅 Eagle → eyrie

🐑 Sheep → pen

🐓 Hen → coop

🔊 Sounds animals make

Lion → roars

Dog → barks

Cow → moos

Horse → neighs

Duck → quacks

Frog → croaks

Bee → buzzes

Snake → hisses

Elephant → trumpets

Wolf → howls

Owl → hoots

Sheep → bleats

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Groups (collective nouns)

a swarm of bees

a herd of cattle

a flock of birds

a pride of lions

a school of fish

a pack of wolves

a litter of puppies

a troop of monkeys

a bunch of grapes

a bouquet of flowers

a fleet of ships

a galaxy of stars

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Game 1 — Animal Match-Up

🏠 C. Things around us

Name everything you can see. Tap 🔊 to check your pronunciation.

🏫 In the classroom

🍳 In the kitchen

🌳 Out in nature

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Game 2 — Feeling Detective

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Spellings ✏️

A wrong spelling can change the whole meaning! Learn these three easy rules first, then play the spelling game.

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Rule 1 · "i" before "e"

"i" before "e", except after "c".

✅ believe, friend, piece

✅ receive, ceiling (after c!)

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Rule 2 · Silent letters

Some letters hide and make no sound.

knife, knee, write, lamb, hour, castle, ghost

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Rule 3 · Magic "e"

Add "e" and the vowel says its own name.

cap → cape · hop → hope · kit → kite · tap → tape

🧱 The Tricky Word Wall

These words are misspelt most often by Class 5 students. Tap 🔊 and say each one aloud, syllable by syllable.

Memory trick: be-cause = "Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants" · ne-ces-sa-ry = one Collar, two Sleeves · Wed-nes-day = say it as "Wed-nes-day".

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Game 3 — Spelling Champion

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Homophones 👯

Homophones are word twins 👯. They sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.

☀️ The sun is hot.   ≠   👦 He is my son.
Same sound. Totally different picture in your head!

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Game 4 — Homophone Hero

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Idioms 🎭

An idiom is a phrase that does not mean what the words say! If your friend says "This sum is a piece of cake" 🍰 — there is no cake. It only means "this sum is very easy".

Never translate an idiom word by word. Learn the whole phrase like a picture. 🖼️

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Game 5 — Idiom Match

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Chapter 1 Mock Test

12 real IEO-style questions. Every wrong answer explains itself, so you learn while you test. Good luck! 🍀

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