Zeller Speller #33

The word apple can only be a noun.

The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh. Many varieties have been developed as dessert or cooking fruit or for making cider. (New Oxford Dictionary online)

Fun things to do with 2 printable pdfs

Red appleThere are many American English idioms that include the word apple. Idioms are ways people express something, but the words aren’t what they actually mean. For example, the idiom “It’s raining cats and dogs,” means it’s raining very hard.

1) Unscramble the word sets below. Hint: each set contains the word apple and has two or more words in the answer. Some of them are idioms. You can print out the pdf.

  • dlpaleplo
  • ridcapelpe
  • lapep fo noe’s yee
  • apcopeler
  • sappaleuec
  • palpes dan graneos
  • lepppeia
  • paple plosrehi
  • paple-ekehcde
  • tubppaterel
  • spapel ot pleap

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