“It’s Friday the 13th, Ma’am,” said Ramesh. “It might be dangerous for us to study, especially if we do something as boring as ‘direct and indirect speech’ which we’ve been at all week. Please, Ma’am, change Friday the 13th into a lucky day by sparing us another lesson on the topic.”
“In short, you want me to make today less FRIghtful,” said Mrs. Gupta, stressing the ‘FRI’.
The children looked suspiciously at their teacher. “Ma’am, you have something in mind,” said Ramesh. “If I’m not mistaken, you plan to test us on words beginning with ‘FRI’.”
Mrs Gupta was pleasantly surprised. “Clever of you to guess that, Ramesh,” she said. “It seems a good way to mark this special FRIday, don’t you think? We can have a student-FRIendly session on vocabulary-improvement.”
“I suppose anything is better than grammar,” said Ramesh. “Of course, Ma’am, if you would only allow us to FRItter away this hour, Friday the 13th would become quite auspicious!”
Complete the following FRI words to match their meanings:
1. Silly and trivial                                              FRI -- -- -- -- -- --
2. Disagreement or conflict                                FRI -- -- -- -- --
3. Medium-sized warship                                   FRI -- -- -- --
4. Man belonging to a Catholic religious order  FRI -- --
5. Search quickly                                                FRI -- --
6. Outer limit                                                      FRI -- -- --
7. Very cold                                                        FRI -- -- --
8. Decorative band with folds                            FRI -- --
9. To burn or shrivel                                           FRI -- -- -- --
10. Decorative band along a wall                        FRI -- -- --

Answers: 1 Frivolous  2 Friction  3 Frigate  4 Friar  5 Frisk  6 Fringe  7 Frigid  8 Frill 9 Frizzle  10 Frieze.