Valentine’s Day Puzzle

Try a game to check your knowledge on love words 

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1. The symbol of love. 

3. Cards and gifts exchanged on February 14th.

4. A typical Valentine's Day treat.

9. Valentine's Day is the date for ... love letters. 

10. The month of Valentine's Day.

13. What a poet writes (plural).

14. Go on a ... with your boyfriend or girlfriend.

15. To have a ..., to like someone. A way of beeing interested in someone.

17. Roses are red, violets are blue, ... is sweet, and so are you.

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2. A secret ... is someone who likes someone, but doesn’t tell. 

4. Angel, simbol of Valentine.

5. St. Valentine is considered the patron saint of ...  

6. Valentine's Day ... on February 14th.  

7. What cupid shoots to make men fall in love.

8. Sweet, sugary treats for eating. Often given as a gift at Valentines.

11. The traditional color of this holiday.

12. Cupid’s mother.

16. The most common flowers given on this day. 

 

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The Calendar Puzzle

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2. Second day of the working week.

7. Spring starts in this month in the northern hemisphere. 

10. A time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday.

11. Year when February has 29 days. 

12. Halloween month. 

13. The month before April. 

19. The tenth month of the Roman year.

20. Period of three months. 

22. The month when Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US. 

25. The month to make new year’s resolutions.

26. Any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday). 

27. Day when the Jewish Sabbath is held. 

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1. The seventh month of the year. 

3. First day of the week. 

4. Easter ussually falls on this month and in the US, the 1st of this month is Fools Day. 

5. Month dedicated to a Roman Emperor and meaning “venerable”. 

6. There are 52 of these in a year. 

7. Day named after the Moon. 

8. Month when spring starts in the southern hemisphere. 

9. Period of six months. 

14. The opposite of a working day. 

15. Period of months usually in a school calendar. 

16. Fourth day of the week. 

17. Day in the abbreviation TGIF. 

18. Roman month of purification. Also on the 2nd of this month Groundhog Day is celebrated in the US. 

21. Month of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. 

23. A unit of time corresponding approximately to one cycle of the moon's phases. 

24. Thor's day, dedicated to the Scandinavian god of thunder. 

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End Of The Year Crossword

Vocabulary & Game Activity

Use the clues below to complete the crossword puzzle.

  

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4. Two words at the end of every movie. 

5. According to an old saying "It's not over until the fat .... sings".

8. According to William Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida "The end crowns all;And that old common arbitrator, ...., Will one Day end it. 

9. Whoever laughs last, laughs ....

13. Last month of the year. 

15. Small pieces of brightly colored paper that people often throw at celebrations. 

17. An imaginary fat man with a white beard and a red suit who gives toys to children near the end of December (2 words). 

18. An eight-day Jewish holiday that is celebrated in the end of the year. 

19. A small device that explodes to make a display of light and noise. 

20. To count backwards to an event that will start when zero is reached.

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1. An interjection to emphasize the finality of something. Also a punctuation mark. 

2. December 31st (3 words). 

3. To engage in festivities or rejoice. 

4. An act of proposing or drinking in honor of somebody or something. 

6. The start of the New Year is at the .... of midnight. 

7. The site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop in New York City (2 words). 

10. When the year is ending and a new one is starting, many people make these goals. 

11. Food that people around the world traditionally eat for luck to ring in the New Year, and that symbolizes coins. 

12. A Christian holiday celebrated at the end of the year. 

14. "Auld Lang Syne" is the traditional .... for ringing in the New Year in almost every English speaking country. 

16. A message in video games which signals that the game has ended, commonly due to a negative outcome (2 words). 

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The Air Puzzle

Vocabulary/Game activity

 

Use the clues below to complete the crossword puzzle.

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1. Respiratory organs within the thorax. 

4. Military force that fights with airplanes.

7. Another term for airport. 

8. Spacious, with a lot of open space through which air can move freely. 

9. Tell lies, say things that are not true: "full of ... air". 

10. A form of oxygen that is found in a layer high in the earth's atmosphere. 

11. Opposite of exhale. 

13. What you don't air in public. (2 words) 

14. An imaginary guitar that one pretends to play. (2 words) 

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1. Troposphere, stratosphere, etc. 

2. What protects a driver or passenger when a vehicle crashes. 

3. To move air into and out of your lungs. 

4. A company that owns and operates airplanes used for carrying passengers and goods to different places. 

5. A chemical that is found in the air, that has no color, taste, or smell, and that is necessary for life. 

6. To speak honestly and openly in order to resolve a difference: "...the air". 

7. The system used for sending mail by aircraft.

12. A machine, such as an airplane or a helicopter, that flies through the air. 

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The Art Student’s Puzzle

Vocabulary/Game activity
Use the clues below to complete the crossword puzzle.

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1. A picture of the countryside or a similar sight. 3. A person who poses for an artist. 5. A water-based paint that is translucent. 6. A tool with hair, used to apply paint. 8. A type of balance in which elements are equal in size or shape. 10. A public showing of works of art, or other objects. 11. A form of visual art that commonly uses graphite pencils. 12. A board that a painter holds and mixes pigments on. 14. Something made to enclose a picture. 16. A synthetic paint made from a resin and that dries very fast. 19. Colors that are directly opposite each other e.g., red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple. 22. A tool for organizing colors and representing their relationships. (2 words) 26. A mixture of a pigment and liquid. 28. A technique of creating a work of art by mixing paper, fabrics, string or other materials. 29. A finished work made by a painter. 31. Name for the group of colors formed by red, yellow, and blue. 32. A color with a certain amount of black. 33. A large painting on a wall. 34. A basic drawing used later to create a more detailed work. 35. Any material used by an artist to produce a work of art. 36. The "line" at which the sky and the earth appear to meet. 37. A piece in which only one color is used.

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2. Art with no realistic forms from the physical world. 3. A work with great artistic value and done with extraordinary skill. 4. A sheet with a design cut into it to copy shapes. 7. The common name of a color. 9. Art created in the present day. 13. Colors with a high visual temperature like red, orange, and yellow. 14. The element or object in a work of art on which the viewer's attention is focused. (2 words) 15. A picture of someone’s face or upper body. 17. Colors with a low visual temperatures like green, blue, and violet. 18. A painting representing inanimate objects such as bottles, fruit, and flowers. (2 words) 20. An institution devoted to the study and display of objects of interest or value. 21. A painting with a view of the ocean or sea. 22. A piece of white cloth with a structure, used to paint on. 23. The part of a composition that appears to be farthest from the viewer. 24. The area of a picture that appears closest to the viewer. 25. A room or building devoted to the exhibition of works of art. 27. A color with a certain amount of white. 28. The organization of the elements in an art work, following certain principles of design. 30. Burned wood used for drawing.

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VISUAL ARTS Online Crossword Puzzle

 

The Music Puzzle

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6. Someone who plays music.
7. A nice succession of musical tones.
8. Large group or ensemble that contains sections of different instruments.
10. A person who leads a musical ensemble by way of visible gestures.
12. An organized group of singers.
14. Instruments including drums and cymbals.
16. Kind of music original from jamaica.
18. to adjust in musical pitch, to bring an instrument into harmony.
21. A genre of American music that began in the rural regions of the Southern United States.
23. Another name for the front man or main singer in a band ( 2 words ).
24. A guitar has six of these.
       
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1. Type of instruments that includes the flute, oboe, clarinet and saxophone.
2. A musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in black communities in the south of the US.
3. A form of interactive entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music.
4. A comedic play or movie in which dialogue is usually made with songs.
5. Instruments including the trumpet, french horn, trombone and tuba.  
7. A device that amplifies sound or voice.
9. A form of dance and movement in which someone pretends to play rock-style electric guitar ( 2 words) 
11. Kind of music represented by Bach. Mozart and Beethoven among others
13. There are 7 of these in the musical scale.
15. A live performance before an audience.
17. Another name for kinds of music like pop, rock, folk, rap, hiphop, etc. 
19. Short for lip synchronization, a term for lip movements, not real singing, following a song.
20. Any recorded song or tune in a CD or MP3 storage system.
22. Style originated in Italy where singers and musicians perform a dramatic work. 

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