Common Internal Spelling Changes

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Puzzle Title

Clues Across
1.
The doctor has ..... me to adopt a healthier diet. (ADVICE) ADVICED

3.
She ..... showed her baby son off to her friends. (PRIDE) PROUDLY

4.
She needs a ..... period of recovery after the operation. (LONG) LENGTHY

5.
Make sure you have a lot of speaking ..... before the exam. (PRACTISE) PRACTICE

6.
At this end of the pool the water is about 2 metres in ..... . (DEEP) DEPTH

7.
I do fifty ..... of the pool every morning. (WIDE) WIDTHS

8.
I'm not going up there. I'm scared of ..... . (HIGH) HEIGHTH


Clues Down
2.
The foundations of the building need ..... . (STRONG) STRENGTHENING

Another difficult exercise is made. I have only one right word. :-(

Forming compound words

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2. (MOUTH)He tried to disguise his voice whilst talking on the telephone by putting a handkerchief across the .......... (the part of the phone that you speak into).
--> mouthpiece

3. (CHAIR)The meeting will be introduced by the .......... (somebody who runs a meeting).
--> chairman (my answer) , chairwomen, chairperson

4. (PEAK)If you can catch your train during .......... (when it is not so busy) times, your ticket will be much cheaper and the trains less busy.
--> off-peak

5. (NARROW)She is very .......... (unwilling to accept new ideas) when it comes to people from different cultures.
--> narrow-mimded

6. (WORK)The teacher gave us a list of phrasal verbs to revise for .......... (extra work that a student does) tonight before our test tomorrow.
--> overwork--> homework

7. (DAY)He's been watching a lot of .......... (during the morning and afternoon) since he lost his job.
--> whole-day--> daytime

8. (SENTENCE)Somebody from the audience shouted out, and the speaker was forced to stop in ......... (in the middle of).
--> mid-sentence

This exercise is vey difficult to me. I am absolutely impossible to finish. Practice more!