Write the sight words
Teach How to Write Sight Words Fluently – KindergartenWorks
By Leslie Simpson · About 5 minutes to read this article.
My students need to know sight words. They are a key step in the reading process. They aren't the end-all-be-all, but they do play an important role in learning how to read in kindergarten.
Here is one mini-lesson I do - I call it a warm-up activity - with my guided reading groups.
Let me share where it came from, how to do this activity yourself (with a free download) and how to extend it for kinders who are more advanced.
There are so many things that go into learning how to read: There is phonemic awareness, learning letter sounds, manipulating letter sounds and reading words by sight, for example.
Well, during my guided reading group sessions, I like to focus on all of these skills since they all matter (just not all at the same time)!
One easy way to fit in a skill, like recognizing sight words or writing sight words, is to do a warm-up (or mini-lesson) before we get into the main content of our lesson.
That's where this activity comes into play.
Sight words as a warm-up activity
The focus of this warm-up activity is to assess and encourage my kinders to learn how to write sight words - not just read them.
Some students will naturally be better at this based on their strengths but it is good to practice since we expect them to spell these words correctly in their writing amidst lots of phonetically spelled words at this age.
We use a sight word chant as our basis.
What is that?
Well, it is pretty much our key 24 sight words set to the tune of a march.
We use it, practice it and learn it just like we do the alphabet chart every day.
You can get my sight word chart and chant as an instant download and use it tomorrow if you don't already have one in place.
Since my students can practically recite it by heart, just like they can when singing the alphabet - we now focus on building up our writing fluency for these words.
How to do the activity
Since this is a small group activity - it's quick and easy!
I give each student a dry erase mat with pre-made lines (and a plastic page protector cover so they can erase easily).
The dry erase mat features colored lines in six rows.
Each horizontal row has the same number of lines that the chant has words. The lines match the color of the words in our chant too.
This blank sight word workmat is for them to write the chant in order and see how far they can get in two minutes.
I want them to write the words in order -- so that way they can spend time focusing on how to spell the words -- rather than spend time thinking up words (if we just did a "write the words you know how to spell" kind of deal).
We celebrate how many words they each got correct (and how far they got through the chant).
We don't compare their numbers to each other - and I reinforce that they should keep working hard during their reading centers and writer's workshop time on sight words because we'll repeat the activity and they'll want to try and beat their own "score.
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When we repeat the warm-up we celebrate how many more they get (and they do get more).
Since I jot down what they did last time in my guided reading binder, I can remind them of the last time compared to now.
This type of activity was very motivating to my students who were getting this whole 'reading thing'.
I would normally start this activity with a group when they could read roughly 18+ words or more.
It was a natural next step - from reading the words to learning to write sight words fluidly or fluently.
Surprisingly, it was very telling to see which of my students were more or less grapheme inclined.
If they seemed to struggle with this activity, I knew there was more I could do to help them focus on the way words look and build up their grapheme skills.
If they blew it out of the water or were higher readers to begin with, we could tweak this same activity with the next set of 24 words so that way everyone was always being challenged.
This warm-up activity was used every couple of weeks, so I stored it in a place with easy access. Our guided reading workmats were the perfect place to stash the colored lines template.
Easy to hand out -- easy to clean up!
I hope that you can use this type of warm-up mini-lesson with your kinders who are learning how to read in kindergarten and working to write sight words.
Ready to work on sight words with your kindergartners?
I've got your back with my Sing to Learn Sight Word Songs - they are easy peasy little songs you already know with lyrics changed to teach your kiddos how to spell and read each word.
You'll get 31 sight word songs, the two sight word charts I mentioned here plus more.
And you can get the blank colored lines template right here as a freebie so you too can work on developing sight word writing fluency.
Download sight word blanks workmat
Want to know what else to keep nearby for warm-up lessons?
Here is what else you should have near your guided reading table for your growing readers.
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Leslie is the teacher behind KindergartenWorks. She believes in teaching kinders how to be pretty incredible along with teaching them to read, write and think for themselves. She enjoys drinking hot tea, making mud pies with her three kids and sharing what she's learned with teachers.
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Are you looking for an activity for your kids to practice reading Letter A words? Try this fun Letter A Sight Words activity! Your beginning readers will learn new words as they read, spell, and write!
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Letter A Sight Words:
Sight words can be challenging for kids to learn.
Using hands-on and interactive activities will help your children learn to memorize these tricky words.
What Are Sight Words?
Did you know that there are two different types of sight words that you children should learn? The first set of words are those don’t follow the phonics “rules” so kids need to memorize them.
There are also high frequency word that are commonly used in writing. It is easier for kids to remember them, so they can build fluency and don’t have to sound them out every time they are reading.
Getting Ready To Use The Letter A Sight Words Activity:
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What’s Included:
- 2 Read – Stamp – Write Letter A Sight Word Worksheets
What Else Is Needed:
- Copy Paper
- Letter Stamps
- Stamp Pad
- Pencil
To prepare this sight word activity, click on the button below.
Then, download and print the worksheets.
Then, simply make copies for all of your students. You can have them work on one printable at a time or copy them so the worksheet is double sided.
How To Use The Letter A Sight Words Activity:
To begin this sight word activity, your kids will read the first word in the box. Next, they will use letter stamps to spell the word in the middle box.
In the final box, your kids will write the sight word. They will continue to read, stamp, and write the sight words until they have completed the worksheet.
This multi-sensory resource can be an independent activity for young children in any early childhood classroom or homeschool. It’s perfect for literacy centers, choice tubs, and more!
This Letter A Sight Words activity is a fun, hands-on way for kids to practice reading, spelling, and writing the sight words.
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Morphological analysis of the word "aiming"
Part of speech: Adjective
AIMING - the word can be both animate and inanimate, look at the sentence in which it is used.
Initial form of the word: “SIGHTING”
| Word | Morphological characters |
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| SIGHTING |
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| AIMING |
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Disassemble other words specific sentence or text, it is better to use morphological analysis of the text.
Search synonyms for the word "aiming"
Sample sentences with the word "aiming"
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We tried to work closer, but the snipers spotted the camera and fired aimed at it, so it was impossible to shoot.
The remaining thirty-two. The Complete Stories, Ernest Hemingway, May 21, 2014
2
The road winds among the craters, but this is not aimed fire, the German hits blindly, across the square, not even seeing his breaks during the day.
A span of land, Grigory Baklanov, 1959
3
Bezugly raised aiming shield and fired at random.
Altai ballad (collection), Vladimir Zazubrin, 2010
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And the existing sighting machine ...
People in uniform, Anatoly Rybin, 1959
5
The thin and long Keshka grabbed whatever he could get his hands on - and fragments of bricks, pebbles came across - and fired back, not thick, but aimed .
Stories about a former life (collection), Nikolay Samokhin, 1985
Find more example sentences with the word SIGHTING
Right Brain Championship Part VI
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Date: 2010-02-06
Editor: Artem Kolesov
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13 round (170-182)
Question 1:
170.
Preamble. The author hopes that he made the package in good conscience.
Edouard Dege painted the painting "The Birth of Painting" entirely from sitters, forgetting about time corrections, as evidenced, in particular, by the position of HIS both characters. Name it in three words.
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Answer: Little toe of the left foot.
Both characters have little toes on their feet beveled and pressed against the neighboring ones. fingers, which, in principle, ancient people could not have due to the lack closed shoes. And the author of the package hopes that the teams will not work out the impression that he wrote the package with the little toe of his left foot. :-)
Source(s): http://iako.livejournal.com/240849.html
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 2: 171. In one of Pavel Baykov's jokes, the author finds a sponsor for the publication works - their own EE.
The author of six parts addressed HER more than once famous work. Name it in two words.
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Answer: Rich fantasy.
The product is the Superiority of the Right Hemisphere, replenished with the sixth part.
Source(s): http://baykoff.livejournal.com/12543.html
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 3:
172 camera and drew attention to THEM. Name them in three words.
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Answer: Birds on wires.
He took a picture of the birds on the wires, came home and played the melody. Music notation of the melody and displays their position.
Source(s): http://vimeo.com/6428069
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 4:
173.
According to the author of the question, Chris Cooksey in his work depicted X. What was the name of X in the 1986 cartoon?
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Answer: Laputa.
ICS is a heavenly castle.
Source(s):
1. http://www.joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/kuksi_immenient_utopia_november_22_2008_12345/selectedworks/kuksi_imminent_utopia/larger/
2 Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 5:
174. What six-letter English neologism is called a variation of the famous game we gave you?
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Answer: Hatris.
Tetris, but with caps. :-)
Source(s):
1. http://www.g-mode.jp/appli/vs/hatris/
2. http://www.mobygames.com/game/hatris/screenshots
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 6: 175.
Complete with one word an excerpt from Boris Brainin's poem:
"So we will be until the end
Without extra jitters
The verb to burn hearts,
Forgetting about ....
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Answer: "... cases".
Indeed, they forgot about the case in the last line. :-)
Source(s): http://www.litparody.ru/autors/02-b/brainin/gonyaya_padezhey.html
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 7: 176. In which city did the opening of the subway take place on February 4, 2006 of the year?
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Answer: Turin.
Precisely for the Winter Olympics.
Source(s): http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_metro
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 8: a different fact or pun already knows from the question written on it.
He compared these questions with THEM. Name THEM in three words as accurately as possible.
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Answer: Screensavers in (animated) series.
Screensavers in animated series are usually replete with the most colorful moments from what is yet to be discovered.
Source(s):
1. Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita".
2. Own reflections.
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 9: car from one overnight stay to another, Nabokov mentions... Whom?
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Answer: Motylkov.
Motel is a word derived from the fusion of the words "motor" and "hotel". Naturally, the heroes traveling by car stopped in motels. Nabokov calls them moth motels. "Flipped" is a hint.
Source(s): Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita", part II, ch. 1.
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 10: 179.
One joke asks whether ICS is a request or a diagnosis. One of the sister cities of the KSI is Dresden. Name ICS and CSI.
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Answer: Neurotic, Coventry.
Coventry is an anagram of the word "neurotic" (like X and Xi).
Source(s):
1. TV channel TNT on January 3, 2010.
2. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 11: 180. This actor was cremated and his ashes scattered over his family's ranch. His two younger sisters, who followed in his footsteps, are Rain and Summer. State his first and last name.
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Answer: River Phoenix.
The actor died from a speedball overdose. As if to justify the surname, The Phoenix River was burned, and the sisters continued his work with no less poetic names and brother Joaquin.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Phoenix
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 12: 181. In the book of Roman Voronezh, the IH Palace is mentioned. Incidentally, Palace THEM" is one of THEM. Name THEM.
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Answer: Phrases.
Source(s): Roman Voronezh "Drink vodka".
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 13: like dogs gnawing on HER. In one picture, SHE consists of human contours. Name her.
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Answer: Zebra.
Credit: Road markings.
Source(s):
1. http://funandmania.blogspot.com/2010/01/unusual-zebra-crossing-art.html
2. http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com/archives/2007/05/000594.
php
Author: Artem Kolesov
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14 round (183-196)
Question 1: 183. The heroine of a movie says that every day HE writes a few things that come to his mind. In accordance with the result of HIS next action is rain or shine, peace or war comes, a person goes to the toilet or not. Thereby the heroine refutes the well-known expression. Write this expression.
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Answer: God does not play dice.
Source(s):
1. Film "Dedales".
2. http://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 2: 184. In one comic picture, a child holding an envelope with the inscription "Mama", sees her tanned body stretched out on the couch. name the mother and child.
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Answer: Chicken and egg.
Source(s): http://funandmania.blogspot.com/2010/01/awesome-graphic-work.html
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 3: 185. The menu of the only restaurant on the whole street includes dumplings and vareniki. Name this street in Moscow.
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Answer: Sloth.
Lazy dumplings and lazy dumplings. The street is so short that more just didn't fit. By the way, the question is also short.
Source(s): Moscow, Lenivka street, Pelmeni&Pelmeni restaurant.
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 4:
186. Here is a poster from which we removed something. What created by an employee of the Delft University of Technology Vic Hayes in 1991?
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Answer: Wi-Fi.
Source(s):
1. http://peredohni.ru/2008/03/13/prikolnaja-reklama-besplatnogo-internet.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Hayes
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 5: three English words and is almost indistinguishable by ear from what it is dedicated to entire section of this site. Write these three English words.
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Reply: Rest or run.
Restaurants on this site, of course, are also mentioned. :-)
Source(s): http://www.rest-or-run.ru/
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 6: 188. Doublet.
1. Lazar Lagin likened HIM to Antey, who must always touch earth. Name HIM.
2. Andrei Voznesensky likened Picasso in a mesh T-shirt to HIM in HER.
Name HIM and HER.
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Answer:
1. Billiard player.
2. Ball, pocket.
A doublet is such a billiard term (denoting a blow at which object ball falls into the pocket, having previously reflected from the side). This doublet, placed in the middle, was dedicated to billiards. :-)
Source(s):
1. Anthology of "black" humor. — M.: AST, 2008. — S. 129.
2. Andrey Voznesensky "On the virtual wind", ch. "Mad bun".
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 7: 189. A girl named Arabian princess posted a collection online their jewelry in oriental style. One commenter of the compilation remarks, that they are resting. THEY are two letters longer than the name of the film adaptation of Igor Maslennikov. Name them in two words.
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Answer: Treasures of Agrabah.
Credit: Treasures of Agroba.
Screen version - "Treasures of Agra".
Source(s):
1. http://www.biser.info/node/132087
2 . Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 8:
190. If you think hard enough, you can guess which phrase out of three words Sergei Orlov encrypted in this way. Write this phrase.
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Answer: God is an illusion.
Source(s): http://slovomir.livejournal.com/26249.html
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 9: 191. Attention, list: greed, despair, envy, anger, voluptuousness, fanfare. Imagine that you are addressing the marshal, without observing subordination, and name the missing word in the list.
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Answer: Zhor.
This is a double mnemonic phrase to help you remember how mortals sins, so are the colors of the rainbow. :-) Greed is greed; despair despondency; zhor - gluttony; voluptuousness - adultery; fanfare - pride. Marshal - Zhukov. George, he is Zhora. :-)
Source(s): Own reflections.
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 10: 192. For rarely used words like "disgrace" (anger) or "torment" (despondency), the author of the question came up with a palindrome. Which?
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Answer: Minonym.
An analogue of a synonym, only rare. Mini + mean + name.
Source(s): Own reflections.
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 11: 193.
In Buddhism, it symbolizes the destruction of anger, desire and laziness. What are the names of Alfieri, Bindo and Ernesto, who in 1914 discovered own auto repair shop.
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Answer: Maserati.
He is a trident. The trident is featured on the Maserati emblem. These three questions are also a kind of trident. :-)
Source(s):
1. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maserati
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 12: poems in which is called "Silver Bronze"?
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Answer: Jewelry.
Source(s): http://baykoff.livejournal.com/13635.html
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 13: 195. What neologism the author of the question called the act of creating structures a la "jewellery" or "silver bronze"?
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Answer: Word-buying.
Without.
Source(s): Own reflections.
Author: Artem Kolesov
Notes: I did not call this act that, although I like the name (pavel bikes)
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Question 14: 196. You can see "evil" in his English name. What epithet article about which Ushakov mentions "nonsense", you can translate it latin name?
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Answer: Unbelievable.
The word Devil shows the word evil. Lucifer is the bringer of light.
Source(s): http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ushakov/884882
Author: Artem Kolesov
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15 round (197-206)
Question 1: 197. In Nabokov's novel, the OH of the young heroine appears.
He reached out to east of Olekma for 700 km. Name it in two words.
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Answer: Stanovoy Ridge.
Source(s):
1. Vladimir Nabokov "Laughter in the Dark".
2. Physical map of Russia.
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 2: according to the law of meanness, SHE did not have time to play the role of Janis Joplin. Other the December article dedicated to HER was called "HER'S DEATH". What two did we replace the words with "DEATH"?
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Answer: "Interrupted life".
The Law of Meanness is otherwise known as Murphy's Law. Both articles were devoted death of actress Brittany Murphy. "Girl, Interrupted" movie in which she played an important role.
Source(s):
1. http://mykulturestyle.blogspot.com/2009/12/mertvaya-devushka-ostanovilos-serdtse.
html
2. http://www.plastic4you.ru/articles/1034
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 3:
Columbia astronomers see ..... .. ....
199. You see the title of an article that talks about skyscraper built right in front of the Columbia Telescope observatories. Restore 11 missing letters.
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Answer: Stars no more.
This is an antigram: astronomers - stars no more.
Source(s): http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/09/30/columbia-astronomers-see-stars-no-more
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 4: 200. Attention, X replaces two words, and YGREK is a proper name.
Renaissance artists believed that words were in the air.
According to Lucia Impelluso, depicted on their canvases, X personified the "gift pen". X is one of the symbols of YGREK. In one periodic table the image of the XX is in the cell france, and the image of the symbol GREEK - in the cell of another element. Name X and this element.
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Answer: Winged helmet, mercury.
X - a winged helmet, YGREK - Mercury (in the first case - a god, in the second - planet). The winged helmet was worn by the Gauls (remember at least Asterix). The symbol of the planet Mercury, of course, from ancient times personifies mercury.
Source(s):
1. Lucia Impelluso. Heroes and gods of antiquity. Encyclopedia of art. — M.: Omega, 2010.
2. http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/francium.html
3. http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/mercury.html
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 5:
201.
Here is the cover of the book on which the author of the question replaced its real author on the other two. He left the first letters of their names. Write the names of these two Englishmen.
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Answer: Fry, Laurie.
The author of the question thus beat "The Fry and Laurie Show." :-)
Source(s): Microsoft Paint.
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 6:
[Instruction to the facilitator: read the text of the question slowly, under the record.]
[Second prompt to host: previous prompt to host to read out loud and stop at the word "slow".]
202. According to the author of the question, SHE treated the official, sentencing "Eat some more of these Bordeaux croissants and take a sip of chifirchika." Name her.
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Answer: Agrippina Savvichna.
A well-known dictation for knowledge of the Russian language.
Source(s):
1. School.
2. Own reflections.
Author: Artem Kolesov based on the idea of Evgeny Rubashkin
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Question 7: 203. "Open Systems" is, oddly enough, X. X - tenth capital Cities. Name ICS.
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Answer: CJSC.
The Open Systems Company is, oddly enough, a closed joint-stock society. One tenth of Moscow is one of its ten districts - West.
Source(s):
1. http://www.gde24.ru/company/card/BgEAE2vlgTMKR65zdTqm2rky/
2. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_administrative_okrug_of_Moscow
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 8: decline due to the Great Depression, and also because shortly before drew, one might say, his antagonist. Who is X?
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Answer: Felix the Cat.
The famous black and white cat Felix has lost a significant proportion of fans not only because of the beginning of the Great Depression, but also because in direct sense drew Mickey Mouse. :-) Who? Cat. X - Felix.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_the_Cat
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 9: 205. Doublet.
1. According to the author of the question, this adjective is not related to blood vessels or connective tissue and means that the person in absentia is able to withstand the norm of the load of this and the next birth. Write this adjective.
2. Although she is an example of a chorea, she also has iambic. What logo game is it present?
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Answer:
1. Two-wire.
2. Half life.
1.
The word "two-core", according to the author of the question, comes from the words "two lives".
2. She is lambda.
The doublet is united by the fact that in the first part there are two lives, and in the second - half life.
Source(s):
1. Own reflections.
2. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda
Author: Artem Kolesov
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Question 10: 206. The author of the question found one of the reasons for success as old directors (Chaplin, Wyler, Fellini) and contemporary (Jarmusch, Spielberg, Tykver) in THIS. And he concluded that the success of a certain director in one and a half times higher. Name this director.
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Answer: Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The names and surnames of the listed directors begin with one letter (including including and in the original language): Charlie Chaplin, William Wyler, Federico Fellini, Jim Jarmusch, Steven Spielberg, Tom Tykwer.
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