👊 How well do you know your short stories? 👊

Here's a task to check your Country Studies skills on this fine Sunday afternoon!

📱 For items 1–8, match the author to the short story. There is an example (0) done for you.

Example: 0. C

🧑‍🎨Writers:
0. Katherine Mansfield
1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. Roald Dahl
4. James Joyce
5. O. Henry
6. Ray Bradbury
7. Flannery O'Connor
8. Virginia Woolf

🧐Short Stories
A. The Tell-Tale Heart
B. Araby
C. The Garden Party
D. Hills Like White Elephants
E. The Gift of the Magi
F. Lamb to the Slaughter
G. The Mark on the Wall
H. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
I. There Will Come Soft Rains

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🤩 A pun vocabulary task: Vol 5 🤩

Here’s a new joke-based task for you!

For items 1–5, complete the puns. The number of letters is given in brackets to help you and there is an example (0) done for you.

0. So what if I don’t know what apocalypse means!? It’s not the _ (3) of the _ (5)!
Answer: end, world

🤩 You’re living, you occupy space, and you have mass. You _ (6).

🤩 My math teacher called me average. How _ (4)!

🤩 I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a _ (3) _ (3).

🤩 I couldn’t quite remember how to throw a _ (9), but eventually it came back to me.

🤩 What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing – but it let out a little _ (5).

Guess in the comments! 🤩

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Adamant
adjective  

🇬🇧 /ˈæd.ə.mənt/
🇺🇸 /ˈæd.ə.mənt/

: impossible to persuade, or unwilling to change an opinion or decision

Amy was adamant about making sure the girls were girls.
Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR

Synonyms: stubborn, steadfast, hardened
Antonyms: amenable, flexible, complying

Adverb: adamantly

Etymology: originates from the Greek adamas (unconquerable), referring to an imaginary, legendary stone or metal of extreme hardness🪨

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