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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- frowsty - - splutter - - sluice gate - - sheath - - mended - - dagger - - brambles - - flask - - solemn - - plaguey -




Peter had just drawn his sword out of its ____ and was showing it to Mr. Beaver when Mrs. Beaver said: "Now then, now then! Don't stand talking there till the tea's got cold..."

…It made one cough and ____ a little and stung the throat but it also made you feel deliciously warm after you'd swallowed it—and everyone went straight to sleep.

So Mrs. Beaver and the children came bundling out of the cave, all blinking in the daylight, and with earth all over them, and looking very ____ and unbrushed and uncombed and with the sleep in their eyes.

Peter was silent and ____ as he received these gifts for he felt they were a very serious kind of present.

"If you hadn't all been in such a ____ fuss when we were starting, I'd have brought some pillows," said Mrs. Beaver.

Then Mrs. Beaver handed round in the dark a little ____ out of which everyone drank something…

"And as for you, Mr. Beaver, when you get home you will find your dam finished and… a new ____ fitted."

"... And the ____ is to defend yourself at great need. For you also are not to be in the battle."

He knew he could scramble to the top of the bank among bushes and ____ without being seen; and he wanted above all things to see which way the Witch's sledge went.

He ____ the fences that were damaged during the storm with new wood and material.