1. Learning about Language
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Learning about Language
Dingbat Deductions
ANSWERS WILL BE SHOWN HERE

2. Dingbats
Objective:
To use inference and deduction skills to solve Dingbats and establish word focus

3. Dingbats
Dingbats are an excellent way to get your brain in action and develop your focus on words. The following slides will show a series of dingbats your job is to work out the hidden phrase.

4. How Does it work? You’re Arrest
Can you work out the Dingbat below? Look carefully at the words and think about how the words are set out.
Arrest
You’re
Answer:
‘You’re under arrest’ because the word ‘You’re’ is under the word ‘arrest’!

5. Ready to have a go? me right
Remember to look carefully at the words and think about how the words are laid out.
me right
ANSWER: RIGHT NEXT TO ME

6. millio1n
ANSWER: ONE IN A MILLION

7. Ri poor ch
ANSWER: THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND POOR

8. HA BIRD ND
ANSWER: A BIRD IN THE HAND

9. TIME TIME
ANSWER: TIME AFTER TIME or TWO TIMES

10. VA DERS
ANSWER: SPACE INVADERS

11. MEREPEAT
ANSWER: REPEAT AFTER ME

12. 3
ICE
ANSWER: ICE CUBE

13. BIG BIG
Ignore ignore
ANSWER: TOO BIG TO IGNORE

14. Belt
hitting
ANSWER: HITTING BELOW THE BELT

15. Search
and
ANSWER: SEARCH HIGH AND LOW

16. Go it it it it
ANSWER: GO FOR IT

17. lang4uage
ANSWER: FOREIGN LANGUAGE

18. Knee
Light light
ANSWER: NEON LIGHTS

19. Easy iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
ANSWER: EASY ON THE EYES

20. We lie ight
ANSWER: LIE IN WAIT

21. Hi way
pass
ANSWER: HIGHWAY OVERPASS

22. Cha whowho rge
ANSWER: WHO’S IN CHARGE

23. I’M you
ANSWER: I’M BIGGER THAN YOU

24. PePPermint
ANSWER: THREE PIECE SUITE

25. Bolton 4 – Chelsea 1 Arsenal 4 – West Ham 1 Blackburn 4 – Spurs 1
Reading 4 – Liverpool 1
Man U 4 – Man City 4
ANSWER: ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL