Word Formation 1

WORD FORMATION

1.     This is the most________ concert I’ve ever been to	EXPENCE
2.     Her husband’s not a very ____________person.	PATIENCE
3.     Susan is very __________ and wants to do well.	AMBITION
4.     Show some ________. Don’t you like the idea?	ENTHUSE
5.     Her problem is that she has not enough ______in herself	CONFIDE
6.     Dan is really very ____< even rude sometimes.	POLITE
7.     I haven’t been to the cinema_______.	RECENT
8.     Mary _____and they never saw her again.	APPEAR

1.     I’m telling you the ______! I swear!	TRUE
2.     Your composition isn’t good enough. You’ll have to _______it.	WRITE
3.     Did you know that Ann used to work as a ______ when she was younger?	WAIT
4.     They need your ________before they can do it.	SIGN
5.     It all happened quite ____. I didn’t have time to think.	SUDDEN
6.     I’m sure his new film is going to be a huge______.	SUCCEED
7.     Did Paul give an _____for his actions.	EXPLAIN
8.     The _________of the village are all very kind.	INHABIT

1.     Most people have no real ________ In ghosts.	BELIEVE
2.     Mark Twain wrote many _______________stories.	HUMOUR
3.     The children’s _________ at the concert was excellent.	BEHAVE
4.     Rita asked for a _________and the cashier gave her one	RECEIVE
5.     Do you think you have _______to pass the exam?	ABLE
6.     You need a lot of ________to write a good story.	IMAGINE
7.     I read a n interesting ______ in a newspaper.	ADVERTISE
8.     Their friendship began in their ______	CHILD

1.     The leaflet  gives a brief _________ of each place.	DESCRIBE
2.     Can you give us a quick______ of how it works.	EXPLAIN
3.     Olga broke the vase during an ________with her husband.	ARQUE
4.     Gold is very _________metal.	VALUE
5.     Peter began to feel depressed and _______.	HELP
6.     His book is the result of years of _______reseach.	CARE
7.     This snake is not __________ at all.	DANGER
8.     The bright flowers make the room look ________.	CHEER
1.     Teenagers nowadays are more interested in _________problems	GLOBE
2.     Have you seen the new Levi _______on TV.	ADVERTISE
3.     I looked everywhere but I couldn’t find him. He’s ____________.	APPEAR
4.     It’s very ____________to drink and drive.	DANGER
5.     Can you give me some more _______about this adventure holiday?	INFORM
6.     We need to put up some _____for tonight’s party.	DECORATE
7.     The weather today will be cold and ______.	WIND
8.     Margarita was very ______ with this service.	SATISFY
1.     You have to fill in an _____form if you are interested.	APPLY
2.     Sam took off his clothes, went to bed and ______fell asleep.	PROMPT
3.     The food was completely______, he was a useless cook.	TASTE
4.     There were over 500 _______to the temple every day.	VISIT
5.     In spite of her _______, Jane continued her journey.	HUNGRY
6.     You can’t hope to win the race without any _________.	TRAIN
7.     Hard as he tried, he was unable to find __________.	SOLVE
8.     The more they got to know each other, the more their __________ grew.	FRIEND

1.     They put a lot of ____on him to agree to their demands.	PRESS
2.     I’ve had three ____ nights and I feel exhausted.	SLEEP
3.     If you have problems with your _____, see a doctor.	CIRCULATE
4.     I’m feeling very_____ today, I think I’ll go for a run.	ENERGY
5.     Remember that ________are also human.	EXAMINE
6.     His nose was quite _______ for days after he’d had it pierced.	PAIN
7.     There are a lot of _______ restaurants in this area.	FASHION
8.     Although she isn’t beautiful, most men find her quite _________.	ATTRACT

WORD FORMATION

1.    Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) designed some of London’s finest (1/ architect) masterpieces. He was (2/ talent) in many fields, including astronomy, but it is as an architect that he is now most (3/ fame). He designed 53 churches, including St Paul’s Cathedral, and during his long, (4/ create) career he served three kings and two queens.

It was after the (5/ disaster) Great Fire of London that Wren’s most important works were built. The (6/ destroy) of large areas of London gave him the chance to completely replan and renew the city, and the most (7/ impress) building still standing today is St Paul’s, with its (8/ beauty) dome and detailed stonework.

On the wall near Wren’s plain tomb in St Paul’s is an inscription in Latin: “Reader, if you seek a monument, look around.” In fact, all over London the memory of Sir Christopher Wren is kept (9/ live) by the beauty of his wonderful buildings.  

2.    The manatee is a large mammal which lives mainly in the waters around Florida in the United States. Adults range in (1/ long) from 2.5 to 4.5 metres and can be as much as 700 kilos in (2/ weigh). Manatees are slow-moving (3/ create) which feed on sea and fresh-water vegetation. They live alone or in small family groups.

Members of groups (4/ usual) communicate by touching each other’s mouths and noses. Manatees are (5/ endanger) because of hunting and because they are often injured of killed by motor boat propellers. It is (6/ extreme) important to protect manatees because they help to keep the waters they live in clean and (7/ health).

3.    Charles Babbage was an important English (1/ invent) who is (2/ fame) for designing the first computer.

In 1823 the (3/ govern) gave Babbage a large amount of money to design a mechanical (4/ calculate) and he spent most of his life working on the machine. During the 1830’s he developed plans for another machine which would later become the first modern computer. The machine had a huge memory to store complicated numbers.

(5/ fortunate), the designs for his computer were lost until 1937 when (6/ luck), they were found. In 1991, British scientists (7/ final) built a surprisingly accurate computer using Babbage’s designs and called it

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