What does cassette mean?
Word: Cassette
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Cassette means a small flat plastic case holding a long strip of magnetic tape, used to record and play sound or pictures.
How do you spell cassette?
Syllables: cas - sette
Tricky part: The close of the word comes from French and has more letters than you hear, so students stop early and write cassete or cassett.
Watch out for: cassete, cassett
Memory tip: A kitchenette is a little kitchen and a statuette is a little statue. A cassette is a little box, and all three finish the same way.
Cassette in a sentence
Example 1: Grandfather still keeps his old music on a cassette.
Example 2: The tape came out of the cassette and we wound it back with a pencil.
Example 3: Mum labelled each cassette with a neat paper sticker.
Fun Fact
Philips showed the first compact audio cassette to the public at a radio show in Berlin in 1963.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
c_s_ette
a) o, s
b) a, s
c) a, c
d) e, s
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b) a, s. The word opens like castle, and the s sound in the middle takes a plain s.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tetsacse
a) cascade
b) cassette
c) cabinet
d) casserole
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b) cassette. Two s's and two t's are the giveaway; no other option has both.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) balloon
b) success
c) cassette
d) accomodate
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d) accomodate. The word needs a double c and a double m as well: accommodate.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
My aunt found a cassette of Lata Mangeshkar songs in the cuboard.
a) cassette
b) songs
c) aunt
d) cuboard
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d) cuboard. Cupboard has a p you cannot hear, because it began as a board for cups.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Before phones held music, in which machine would you play a cassette?
a) a washing machine
b) a sewing machine
c) a tape recorder
d) an electric fan
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c) a tape recorder
2. Ines's song stops when the tape reaches its end. What might she do with the cassette?
a) charge it for an hour or two
b) plug it into the wall socket
c) open it on her tablet screen
d) turn it over to the other side
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d) turn it over to the other side
