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Spell Bee Word: Gorilla

Gorilla (noun): the largest ape, a very strong animal that lives in the forests of Africa.


What does gorilla mean?

Word: Gorilla

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Gorilla means the largest ape, a very strong animal that lives in the forests of Africa.

How do you spell gorilla?

Syllables: go - ril - la

Tricky part: Gorilla has only one r but a double l near the end. Many children swap them round and write gorrila.

Watch out for: gorila, gorrila, gorillah

Memory tip: One r for the one big gorilla, and two l's for its two long arms.

Gorilla in a sentence

Example 1: The gorilla beat its chest.

Example 2: We saw a gorilla at the zoo.

Example 3: A baby gorilla rode on its mother's back.

Fun Fact

A grown male gorilla can weigh more than twice as much as an adult man.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) gorilla
b) garilla
c) gerilla
d) gurilla

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a) gorilla. The first vowel in gorilla is o.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lroilag

a) groilla
b) gorilla
c) goirlla
d) ogrilla

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b) gorilla. Say it in three beats and put the letters of each beat in order.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A goriller sat quietly under a tree.

a) quietly
b) sat
c) goriller
d) tree

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c) goriller. Gorilla ends in a, even though it can sound like er.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a gorilla mostly eat?

a) seeds and grain
b) leaves and fruit
c) meat and bones
d) fish and crabs

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b) leaves and fruit

2. Which of these animals is most like a gorilla?

a) a buffalo
b) a kangaroo
c) a bear
d) a chimpanzee

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d) a chimpanzee

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with g: grandparent, glider, grandchild, graph, growl, grandfather

More words from this list

jacket, movement, quite, sour, tulip, another, carpet, dive

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