Goal: use irregular plurals correctly, spot homophones, describe a famous mystery, write a 200-word mystery story. Examined in Test 9 (plurals), Test 11 (word-box), Test 14 (description), Test 16 (story).
📐 Irregular plurals
- -f → -ves: leaf · loaf · shelf · calf · wife · knife · life
- Exceptions (-fs): roof · chief · belief · gulf
- Vowel change: foot/feet · tooth/teeth · goose/geese · mouse/mice
- -en: child/children · ox/oxen
- No change: sheep · deer · fish · aircraft · series
- Latin/Greek: phenomenon→phenomena · bacterium→bacteria · datum→data · analysis→analyses
- Compound: fathers-in-law · passers-by
📐 Common homophones
- their / there / they\'re
- its / it\'s
- to / too / two
- weather / whether
- principal / principle (head / rule)
- stationary / stationery (still / pens)
- peace / piece
- hear / here
🔺 Bermuda Triangle facts
- Atlantic Ocean — Bermuda · Puerto Rico · Florida.
- ~500,000 sq miles.
- Flight 19 (1945) — most famous loss.
- USS Cyclops · MS Marine Sulphur Queen.
- Explanations: magnetic anomalies · methane gas · freak waves · human error.
- Statistics: no more dangerous than any busy shipping route.
🕵 Famous world mysteries
- Loch Ness Monster (Scotland)
- Stonehenge (England)
- Mary Celeste (abandoned ship)
- Easter Island statues (Chile)
- Sigiriya mirror-wall graffiti (Sri Lanka)
- Amelia Earhart's disappearance
✍️ Writing — mystery story shape
- Notice (Test 6): 40–50 words.
- Paragraph (Test 8): 50–60 words.
- Description / data sheet (Test 14): ~100 words. Location → shape → famous incident → balance of fact & mystery.
- Mystery story (Test 16): ~200 words. Hook → sensory scene → ONE fresh clue (e.g. a date that matches today) → ambiguous final line.