USE OF ENGLISH PART 3 – WORD FORMATION

EXERCISES from “First Certificate Trainer” (Cambrisge U.P.)

India's rainforest by night

India has amazing countryside with some of the most (0) remarkable. REMARK

wildlife on Earth, and its 96 National Parks are becoming (25) INCREASE

popular. These parks contain a huge (26)of creatures, from VARIOUS

multicoloured butterflies to magnificent tigers, but (27) for visitors, FORTUNATE

many of them are active mainly at night and then seem to (28) APPEAR

during the day. In southern India's Periyar National Park, however,

they have found a solution to this problem: night tours.

Walking through the rainforest in the dark is a wonderful way to

observe creatures in their natural (29)You quickly become more SURROUND

(30)to the sounds of birds and animals, and you soon begin to SENSE

recognise some of their calls. You are accompanied by local guides to

prevent you getting lost, and also for (31)reasons: there are big SAFE

cats around, and (32)snakes, too. POISON

Many visitors want to continue their (33)of the jungle all night, EXPLORE

but if you want a break from the tropical (34)there are rivers HOT

where you can go for a cooling swim by moonlight.

INCREASINGLY – VARIETY – UNFORTUNATELY – DISAPPEAR – SURROUNDINGS – SENSITIVE – SAFETY – POISONOUS – EXPLORATION - HEAT

The city of Miami

The (0) American city of Miami was founded in 1896 by Julia Tuttle, AMERICA

a (25) Florida businesswoman. From a population then of just 300, WEALTH

it has become a vast urban area of 5.5 million (26), attracting INHABIT

(27) from all over the world. Its excellent transport links mean it can VISIT

(28) be reached by road, rail, air or sea. EASY

The city's continuing (29) as a tourist and financial centre has led to GROW

a construction boom. Many of the new buildings are over 120 metres in

(30), giving Miami the most impressive skyline in the country after HIGH

New York and Chicago.

Its wide variety of (31) includes sandy beaches, nightclubs, music and ATTRACT

dancing, as well as activities such as skateboarding and cycling in the

world-famous, (32) South Beach area. The city centre has a number of FASHION

(33) parks and gardens, and of course there is the wonderful weather: DELIGHT

(34) any other major city in the USA, it has a genuinely tropical climate. LIKE

WEALTHY – INHABITANTS – VISITORS – EASILY – GROWTH – HEIGHT – ATTRACTIONS – FASHIONABLE – DELIGHTFUL - UNLIKE

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EXERCISES from “First Certificate Trainer” (Cambrisge U.P.)

India's rainforest by night India has amazing countryside with some of the most (0) remarkable. REMARK wildlife on Earth, and its 96 National Parks are becoming (25) INCREASE popular. These parks contain a huge (26)of creatures, from VARIOUS multicoloured butterflies to magnificent tigers, but (27) for visitors, FORTUNATE many of them are active mainly at night and then seem to (28) APPEAR during the day. In southern India's Periyar National Park, however, they have found a solution to this problem: night tours. Walking through the rainforest in the dark is a wonderful way to observe creatures in their natural (29)You quickly become more SURROUND (30)to the sounds of birds and animals, and you soon begin to SENSE recognise some of their calls. You are accompanied by local guides to prevent you getting lost, and also for (31)reasons: there are big SAFE cats around, and (32)snakes, too. POISON Many visitors want to continue their (33)of the jungle all night, EXPLORE but if you want a break from the tropical (34)there are rivers HOT where you can go for a cooling swim by moonlight. INCREASINGLY – VARIETY – UNFORTUNATELY – DISAPPEAR – SURROUNDINGS – SENSITIVE – SAFETY – POISONOUS – EXPLORATION - HEAT

The city of Miami The (0) American city of Miami was founded in 1896 by Julia Tuttle, AMERICA a (25) Florida businesswoman. From a population then of just 300, WEALTH it has become a vast urban area of 5.5 million (26), attracting INHABIT (27) from all over the world. Its excellent transport links mean it can VISIT (28) be reached by road, rail, air or sea. EASY The city's continuing (29) as a tourist and financial centre has led to GROW a construction boom. Many of the new buildings are over 120 metres in (30), giving Miami the most impressive skyline in the country after HIGH New York and Chicago. Its wide variety of (31) includes sandy beaches, nightclubs, music and ATTRACT dancing, as well as activities such as skateboarding and cycling in the world-famous, (32) South Beach area. The city centre has a number of FASHION (33) parks and gardens, and of course there is the wonderful weather: DELIGHT (34) any other major city in the USA, it has a genuinely tropical climate. LIKE WEALTHY – INHABITANTS – VISITORS – EASILY – GROWTH – HEIGHT – ATTRACTIONS – FASHIONABLE – DELIGHTFUL - UNLIKE

Hot-air balloons

Riding in a hot-air balloon is a (0) surprisingly calm and peaceful experience, SURPRISE quite (25) any other form of flying. With no engines to provide LIKE power, a balloon depends (26) on the winds around it to move in ENTIRE any direction. (27), the maximum speed is normally around CONSEQUENCE 15 kilometres per hour. This kind of balloon is based on the simple (28) principle that SCIENCE the (29)of hot air is less than that of cold air. It is not, however, WEIGH a large (30), as a cubic metre of hot air is only about 250 DIFFERENT grams lighter than the same amount of cold air. This means it takes (31) four cubic metres of hot air just to lift one kilo, which ROUGH explains why balloons that carry people have to be so enormous. A gas burner is used to (32) the air inside the balloon, causing it HOT to rise. To go up more slowly, or to make a (33), hot air is DESCEND released from the top of the balloon. The fact that the wind blows in different directions at different heights (34) the pilot to steer the ABLE balloon left or right by moving it to higher or lower positions in the sky. UNLIKE – ENTIRELY – CONSEQUENTLY – SCIENTIFIC – WEIGHT – DIFFERENCE – ROUGHLY – HEAT – DESCENT - ENABLES

A brief history of surfing Most (0) historians agree that surfing began centuries ago in the Hawaii HISTORY Islands in the Pacific Ocean, where the (25) regarded it as an INHABIT important part of their culture, not as a recreational (26). It ACTIVE was not until the early 20th century that it achieved (27) as a RECOGNISE sport, and for many years it remained (28) to see surfers USUAL anywhere other than in three main (29): Hawaii, California and LOCATE Australia. All that began to change in the 1960s, partly as a result of (30) IMPROVE in the design of surfboards, but also because of the success of films and pop bands, (31) The Beach Boys, that were associated with PARTICULAR surfing culture. Since then there has been rapid (32) in the GROW popularity of surfing throughout the world, and for many surfers it has become a highly (33) sport that requires skill and courage COMPETE to deal with the (34) conditions in some of the roughest seas on CHALLENGE Earth. INHABITANTS – ACTIVITY – RECOGNITION – UNUSUAL – LOCATIONS – IMPROVEMENTS – PARTICULARLY – GROWTH – COMPETITIVE - CHALLENGING

112 pets A woman living in the city centre has asked for (0) assistance to find a ASSIST bigger house and garden - so that her 112 pets can live in less (25) conditions. Jennifer Symons, 26, has always loved animals CROWD and now has a (26) that includes twelve cats, seven dogs, four COLLECT monkeys, two horses and a (27) of smaller creatures, including VARY

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