Lesson 4 unit 3 and exam folder CAE Word formation 09-22

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• Leerjaar 4

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Homework check: Open close of the email text

Chapter 3

Exam folder 3

(The Cuckoo's Calling: we'll do this next week)

Open close: Fill the gaps, using ONE word per gap. (Number them 1 to 10)

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Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. What did Obama tell the community they visited?

2. What two ideas should be united?

3. Why are women important for this?

4. What do women need to be more helpful?

5. The school is named after two women:

      Who are they?

      Why were they important?

Compare your answers. Discuss.

Speak English!

CAE Use of English

Word formation

Tips

• read the title and the complete text first 
• find out what you need:  a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb etc.
  
• positive or negative meaning?
• plural form?

How to improve

When reading a text in English:

divide long words into their stem/root, prefix and suffix. 

Step 1: Which word type do you need?

Noun, verb, adjective or adverb?

1. Collecting garden gnomes might seem an unusual ..... , but many people do it.     ACTIVE

2. Professor Watkins wasn't only an   .......  to me, but to thousands of others lucky enough to have met him.                                                                                                                                               INSPIRE

3. For someone so young, Carl is a very literate and ....... young man.                                ELOQUENCE

4. The new year ..... in this area of the country involve dancing and drinking.               CELEBRATE

5. The ......  of the Rubik's Cube peaked in the early 1980s.                                                      POPULAR

6. This  work is very .....  and difficult to understand.                                                                  CONCEPT

7. Tom ........  told us he wasn't coming, then he turns up with two guests!                      INITIAL

8. It is the bride's father who has ........... paid for a wedding.                                                  TRADITION

Step 2: is it positive or negative?

1. The leader of the trade union campaigned ....... for reelection. In the end he was beaten by 12 points.                                                                                                                                                           SUCCESS

 2. This wine has a very sour flavour to it and a ..... after-taste. I really don't like it.    PLEASE

3. ........  as it may seem, mammoths were alive only five thousand years ago.           CREDIBLE

4.  As is ......... the case when I go to a restaurant, I ate too much and spent a fortune!

VARIABLE

5. Local planners admit they .... the number of tourists that would come for the festival.

ESTIMATE

6. Many of the houses are considered to be .......... and will be torn down by the end of the month. SAFE

Step 3: singular or plural?

1. People with ...... have been campaigning for better access to public buildings.    ABLE

2. When I heard what the company was paying I accepted the job without ..... .       HESITATE

3. Very few countries still have forms of corporal .....  in their laws.                                 PUNISH

4. Children's books contain very beautiful ................  .                                                             ILLUSTRATE

5. We have some brand new  .............. in our club.                                                                      EQUIP

6. ......... will be served in the hall in the afternoon .                                                                  REFRESH

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Practice materials

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/word-formation-index.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_use_of_english_part3.htm

Objective Advanced

pages: 91, 99, 126 

TIP:

STUDY PAGE 31

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Do exercise 6 on page 45

1 read the text first

2 what kind of word?

3 positive or negative?

4 singular or plural?

Work on your planner

Two things to notice (grammar):

1 I wish is NOT followed by would (same as if-sentences), unless

   would means: be willing to

2 Notice this structure: I'd rather he go now.

Homework

Finish chapter 3, Exam folder 3

Learn text chapter 3 (close reading)

Work on chapter 4, exam folder 4

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