S5A U2 UYE Word Families

When it is pouring with rain, we often say, "it's raining cats and dogs" which sounds totally (ridicule), but sometimes it's not too far from the truth!

• ridicule

• ridiculous

• ridiculic

• ridiculed

• ridiculing

(usual) rain is a very bizarre phenomenon, but it's been reported from all corners of the globe.

• usual

• unusual

• usually

• unusually

Scientists have come up with some interesting (explain) for the strange rain, but haven't been able to prove any of them so far.

• explanation

• explanations

• explain

• explainable

In 1981, the citizens of Nafplio in Greece woke up to a (remark) sight.

• remark

• remarkable

• remarks

• remarking

There was another strange (discover) that added to the mystery.

• discovered

• discovery

• discovering

• discovers

(similar), a town in southern Tasmania experienced something rather strange one night in 1996.

• similar

• Similarly

• similarly

• Similar

After a thunderstorm, the people of the town found everything outside covered in a (stick) white substance

• stick

• sticky

• sticks

• stuck

Scientists quickly came to the (conclude) that it had been raining fish eggs or jellyfish!

• conclude

• conclusion

• concluding

• concluded