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Spell Bee Word: meal


Basic Details

Word: Meal

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The food you eat at one time, such as breakfast, lunch or dinner.

How to Spell Meal

Syllables: meal

Tricky part: The long ee sound is spelt ea. Children often write meel because wheel and feel use ee.

Watch out for: meel, meil, mele

Memory tip: Split it into me + al. A meal is food for me.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. make a meal of something: to spend more time or effort on a job than it needs Example: "Don't make a meal of tidying your desk; it only takes a minute."

Usage Examples

Example 1: Lunch is my favourite meal of the day.

Example 2: Mummy cooked a hot meal of dal and rice.

Example 3: We share a meal with Dadi every Sunday.

Fun Fact

Breakfast gets its name from breaking the fast of the night, because it is the first meal after sleeping.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell Spies

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) seal
b) meel
c) deal
d) real

Show answer

b) meel. The other three use ea for the long e sound, and so does meal.

Word Champ

In which option are the given words arranged in alphabetical order?

1. meat 2. meal 3. mean

a) 123
b) 213
c) 321
d) 231

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d) 231. All three start with mea, so look at the fourth letters: l, n, t.

Sound Check

Which of the following words does not rhyme with meal?

a) wheel
b) shell
c) peel
d) steal

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b) shell. Shell has a short e; peel, steal and wheel all have the long ee of meal.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

m_ _l

a) ie
b) ei
c) ae
d) ea

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d) ea. Meal takes e then a, the same pair as in eat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a meal?

a) dinner
b) pillow
c) window
d) pencil

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a) dinner

2. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all ___.

a) places
b) games
c) songs
d) meals

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d) meals

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