Spell Bee Word: Preview

What does preview mean?

Word: Preview

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Preview means a short look at something, like a film or a book, before it comes out for everyone.

How do you spell preview?

Syllables: pre - view

Tricky part: The tricky part is view, which is spelt i-e-w, not e-i-w.

Watch out for: preveiw, previw, previeu

Memory tip: Preview ends with view, the same view you get from a window: i, then e, then w.

Preview in a sentence

Example 1: We watched a preview of the new cartoon film.

Example 2: The book fair gave a free preview of five new books.

Example 3: The preview made me excited to see the whole show.

Fun Fact

Film trailers are previews. They got the name trailer because long ago they were shown after the main film, trailing behind it.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) praview
b) priview
c) preview
d) preeview

Show answer

c) preview. The word starts with pre, meaning before.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

wevrepi

a) erpview
b) perview
c) rpeview
d) preview

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d) preview. Find the word view in the letters, then put the other three in front.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

prevview

a) e
b) w
c) v
d) i

Show answer

c) v. View has only one v, so preview has only one too.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The preview of the new cartoon was very funy.

a) preview
b) cartoon
c) very
d) funy

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d) funy. Funny has a double n, like sunny.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these could be a preview?

a) a full film on a long trip
b) a ticket for an old film
c) a short clip from a new film
d) a review written after a film

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c) a short clip from a new film

2. Which word also starts with pre, meaning before?

a) pressure
b) precious
c) president
d) preschool

Show answer

d) preschool

Associated Words

Words that start with pre: predict, prefer, prevent

More words from this list

skateboard, towel, anger, bright, couch, fawn, health, minute

Next steps

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