Spell Bee Word: Drink

What does drink mean?

Word: Drink

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Drink means to take water, milk or juice into your mouth and swallow it.

How do you spell drink?

Syllables: drink

Tricky part: The nk at the end is the tricky bit. You hear ng-k, but you write only n and k.

Watch out for: drinck, dringk

Memory tip: Drink rhymes with pink and think, and all three end the same way, with n and k.

Drink in a sentence

Example 1: Drink a glass of water after you play.

Example 2: My baby brother drinks warm milk.

Example 3: Always drink clean water.

Fun Fact

The word drench, to make something very wet, comes from the same Old English word as drink.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) drenk
b) drynk
c) dreenk
d) drink

Show answer

d) drink. A short i, as in pin, sits in the middle of drink.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Asha likes to drink cold milk after her swiming class.

a) swiming
b) drink
c) cold
d) milk

Show answer

a) swiming. Swimming has a double m.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

drink

a) eat
b) bite
c) sip
d) chew

Show answer

c) sip. To sip is to drink in small amounts.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

d_ink

a) r
b) w
c) l
d) h

Show answer

a) r. Drink begins with dr, as drum does.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these do people drink?

a) idli
b) poha
c) chapati
d) lassi

Show answer

d) lassi

2. Yesterday I ____ two glasses of milk.

a) drinked
b) drinking
c) drink
d) drank

Show answer

d) drank

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with dr: drain, dream, draw, dragon

More words from this list

giggle, lean, pattern, scarlet, tailor, yell, begin, child

Next steps

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