What does lighthouse mean?
Word: Lighthouse
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Lighthouse means a tall tower near the sea with a powerful lamp at the top that warns ships about rocks and guides them at night.
How do you spell lighthouse?
Syllables: light - house
Tricky part: The first half has a silent gh after the i, as in night, so pupils who spell by sound write litehouse.
Watch out for: lithouse, litehouse, lyghthouse
Memory tip: Think of the quiet g and h as the lamp at the top of the tower: they shine, but they make no sound.
Lighthouse in a sentence
Example 1: We climbed the lighthouse at Kovalam and saw the whole beach.
Example 2: The lighthouse beam swept across the dark water.
Example 3: On stormy nights the fishermen watch for the lighthouse.
Fun Fact
The Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, built more than 2,000 years ago, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) lighthouse
b) lighthuose
c) lighthouce
d) lightehouse
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a) lighthouse. The home half has o before u and an s, never a c, and nothing extra sits at the join.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
huoseghtil
a) lighthouse
b) lighthsoue
c) lightouseh
d) lighthoues
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a) lighthouse. Two words are mixed together here, a lamp word and a home word.
Word Cookie
Fill in the two missing letters to complete the word:
light_ous_
a) t, e
b) w, e
c) h, a
d) h, e
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d) h, e. The second half starts with h, just as it does on its own, and a silent e closes the word.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The lighthouse lamp flashed all night to warn the fishing botes.
a) flashed
b) fishing
c) botes
d) lighthouse
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c) botes. Boats has oa, as in coat; lighthouse is spelt right here.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A lighthouse is most useful to ____.
a) train drivers
b) pilots in the sky
c) sailors at sea
d) drivers on a highway
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c) sailors at sea
2. A lighthouse keeper's main job was to ____.
a) sell tickets to visitors
b) paint boats in the harbour
c) keep the lamp lit at night
d) catch fish for the village
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c) keep the lamp lit at night
