Five of these Danish hospital words you can already read

Five of the six Danish words in this grid can be read by an English-speaking child at first sight. AMBULANCE, MONITOR, BANDAGE and GOWN are spelled exactly as they are in English, and MEDICIN drops a single letter. That leaves LÆGE, the Danish for doctor, as the only genuinely new word on the sheet — and it is the one your child will remember, because it stands apart from the rest.

That balance makes this a sensible first Danish word search. Your child spends the time finding rather than deciphering, and finishes with the sense that Danish is not a wall. LÆGE brings in the letter Æ and runs to only four letters, so it is quick to spot once a child knows what shape to look for. Every word has its picture beside the grid.

It fits a lesson about hospitals, doctors' visits or the people who help us, and it is a calm thing to have in a bag before an appointment. Say LÆGE aloud together a few times — the Danish g is soft, closer to a y than to an English g — and the word tends to come back the next time it turns up. Free to print, free to play on a screen.