Ex. 3. Read the text carefully and comment on its heading
Which paragraph of the text does the heading cover? Offer a more formal heading.
Ex. 4. Categorize the following words and word combinations into two groups: volunteer happy (A) or unhappy (B).
A B
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Focus on vocabulary
Word building
Ex. 1. Add appropriate suffixes to the following nouns to form adjectives.
| -ful, -ial, -ic, -able, -ive, -al |
| altruism | help | conservation |
| romance | circumstance | stress |
| benefit | communication | support |
| meaning | management | environment |
Ex. 2. Work in pairs to describe someone you know well using adjectives from exercise 1.
Ex. 3. Use vocabulary from exercise 1 to complete the sentences below.
a) They would never have been able to win the prize without the ... efforts of their firm.
b) His ... attitude to people is amazing. He considers the happiness of others before his own.
c) He was so ... in arranging the conference.
d) This famous novel is a ... story of love and devotion.
e) She is totally ... and still thinks that a woman’s place is in the home.
f) A ... person is eagerly willing to talk or give information.
g) He was promoted to this post because of his ... skills.
h) The holiday has had a ... effect on him.
i) When she asked about the result of the exam the teacher gave her a ... smile.
j) Her description of the method under consideration is so ...., it contains all the details.
k) Emotionally ... situations can lead to depression.
Word meaning
Ex. 4. Work out the meaning of the underline expressions from the context. Use them in sentences of your own.
Word partners
Ex. 5. Match the words in column A with their definitions in column B.
| A | B |
| a) romance | 1) to find a new member to a group or organization |
| b) benefit | 2) to provide smb with a reason for doing smth |
| c) to recruit | 3) consideration of the good of others before one’s own |
| d) to motivate | 4) concerned with one’s own advantage |
| e) altruism | 5) a story of love |
| f) selfish | 6) a fact or event influencing another event, person, etc. |
| g) poll | 7) questioning people to find out general opinion |
| h) circumstance | 8) advantage, good effect |
Ex. 6. Fill in the words from the exercise above in the following sentences.
a) Our vital aim now is … new members to our party.
b) How is his little … with Julia going?
c) He has had the ... of a first-class education.
d) He is thinking only about his own, the notion of …. is alien to him.
e) He was ... only by the wish to help me and expected nothing in return.
f) Under no … will there be wage reduction while I am head of the department.
g) The results of the ... will not be known until midnight.
h) He is utterly devoid of altruism, without care for others he is so ... .
Focus on speaking II