Spell Bee Word: Lunch

What does lunch mean?

Word: Lunch

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Lunch means the meal you eat in the middle of the day.

How do you spell lunch?

Syllables: lunch

Tricky part: The ch sound is written with a c before the h, after the n. Lunsh and lunh often turn up in young children's writing.

Watch out for: lunsh, lunh

Memory tip: Eat your lunch on a bench. Both words finish with nch.

Lunch in a sentence

Example 1: I had rajma chawal for lunch.

Example 2: We eat lunch at one o'clock.

Example 3: Amma packed my lunch in a steel tiffin.

Fun Fact

Mumbai's dabbawalas carry home-cooked lunches in tiffin boxes from homes to offices, about two lakh boxes on a working day.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) lunch
b) lench
c) lanch
d) lonch

Show answer

a) lunch. Lunch has a u after the l, as in fun.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

lunche

a) l
b) u
c) e
d) c

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c) e. Lunch stops at the h; it has no e.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

breakfast, ____, dinner

a) dessert
b) supper
c) feast
d) lunch

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d) lunch. We eat breakfast in the morning, lunch in the middle of the day and dinner at night.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

My friends and I always eat lunch togather.

a) friends
b) always
c) togather
d) eat

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c) togather. Together has an e after the g: to-geth-er.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A healthy school lunch could be ____.

a) dal, rice and sabzi
b) a bag of toffees
c) a cup of tea
d) a glass of cola

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a) dal, rice and sabzi

2. A lunch eaten outdoors in a park is called a ____.

a) parade
b) party
c) picnic
d) prize

Show answer

c) picnic

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with l: liquid, laugh, local, lion, lonely, leaf

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plot, shake, thirteen, actually, block, cloud, enjoy, grape

Next steps

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