What does opportunity mean?
Word: Opportunity
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Opportunity means a time or a set of conditions that lets you do something you want to do, often something good or useful.
Synonyms: opening
How do you spell opportunity?
Syllables: op - por - tu - ni - ty
Tricky part: The middle sounds unclear, so children write oppurtunity or opertunity. It starts with a double p, then port.
Watch out for: oppurtunity, oportunity, opertunity
Memory tip: A port gives ships the opportunity to come in. Find port sitting right after op.
Idioms and Phrases
- opportunity knocks: Something good you were hoping for comes your way. Example: "When the coach asked for a new goalkeeper, Rhea knew opportunity was knocking."
Opportunity in a sentence
Example 1: The science fair gave every student an opportunity to show a project.
Example 2: I had the opportunity to meet a real astronaut.
Example 3: Do not miss the opportunity to learn a new language.
Fun Fact
NASA's Opportunity rover was built to work on Mars for about 90 days. It kept going for more than 14 years.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: opportunity
a) reason
b) reward
c) chance
d) danger
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c) chance. An opportunity is a chance to do something.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) posibility
b) opportunity
c) curiousity
d) responsability
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b) opportunity. Opportunity has its double p and tu in place; responsibility, curiosity and possibility are the right forms of the others.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The holiday camp gave us an opportunaty to see a real tiger in the wild.
a) opportunaty
b) tiger
c) holiday
d) camp
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a) opportunaty. The word ends in nity, the same as community.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tyropnuipot
a) opportunity
b) opportunist
c) popularity
d) priority
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a) opportunity. Opportunist needs an s, popularity needs an l and an a, and priority has one p too few, so these eleven letters make opportunity.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is an opportunity rather than a problem?
a) losing your bus pass on the way
b) being picked to sing at the school concert
c) finding a flat tyre on your bike
d) catching a cold before a test
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b) being picked to sing at the school concert
2. If you miss an opportunity, you ____.
a) let a good moment slip past you
b) arrive late for a class
c) fail to hear what someone said
d) forget where you kept something
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a) let a good moment slip past you
