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b) Cut, split and burst are all irregular verbs whose three basic forms are identical to each
other (i.e. cut, cut, cut; split, split, split and burst, burst, burst). You could add put, hurt
and set to this group.
C) Information, furniture and food are all uncountable nouns - you could add milk, money
and work to this group.
3 Possible words and exbressions to add:
a) pricey, underpriced, price tag b) to lend someone a hand, a handful; a handbag, underhand, etc.
1 Possible word tree for school:
2 Possible ways to complete the word forks:
stunnin
3 a) drive b) fly c) Riding
Unit 3
The list is probably connected to a lesson or lessons about time or a text about someone's
relationship with time. A possible organisation might include bringing the clock words together in
a word-map or bubble diagram (clock, wristwatch, hands, minute-hand); other words could then
be added later (hour-hand, faceldial, digital, etc.)
Tell the time and What time do you make it? could form a separate list of 'time phrases', to which
others could be added, e.g. Have you got the time?, My watch is fastlslow, etc. Drowsy and wide
awake could be treated as antonyms, and some notes about the usage of beneath and under would
be useful. The list could have information about word-class too.
Theatre seems the obvious word.
Other testing systems include re-entering any word you have difficulty remembering, so that it
appears more than once in the notebook. Another useful discipline is to set yourself a small, fixed
number of words to memorise each week, e.g. 20, and to tick them off in the book as you do
them. You could also take out any ten words from your book and put them on individual slips of
paper which you stick in prominent places around your room or house, e.g. on the fridge door, so
that you are regularly looking at them.
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1 noun verb adjective person
production produce productive producer
industry industrialise industrial industrialist
export export export exporter
Note the change in stress from export (noun) to exm (verb); adjective: export, e.g. Our export
figures have increased; person: exmer.
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