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The prefixes in the box can be added to some nouns, verbs and adjectives to make them negative. In 1-7 below, the same prefix can be used with all three adjectives to make them negative. Choose the appropriate prefix for each group and write the negative forms. The first one has been done for you. Adjectives 1 lucky/pleasanv/reliable dis- un- ir ile 3 legalllogicallegible 4 moral/matureimodest 5 practical/patient/perfect 6 regular/responsible/relevant 7 honestiobedient/satisfied Negative unlucky/unpleasart/unreliable 2 experienced/competenvitolerant Note that int- is not normally used with words beginning with I, m, p or r. ‘What happens instead? 3 What meaning do the affixes in bold have in the following words? [undercook overeat prehistoric postaraduate hypermarket] microelectronics misspell rewrite ex-wife manageress Language focus 3: Gerunds and infinitives B 1 Look at the following extracts from the listening and answer 1 a | remember studying this piece of grammar last year. the questions below. 'b | must remember to study my notes on gerunds and infinitives tonight. a Weare fre te Big lr eventand wen > we age to announce that al waist Yok wl - Lets ° rience delays of up to two hours. Interviewer: Let's hope you can go on winning! ope A and anypartine modeling work now 'ecahig te wont Yr. got to themeeting could be useful for the future. edetcaser nae Itenewer: You meen you might goon fo become a 3 ® !souge4 10 2 newspaper on my way home om full-time model? ee ' b I've stopped buying newspapers. You can't believe a word ln which sentence does go on mean you read in them. continue to do the same activity? bb change to a different activity? 2. Meanings also affected when using ether the gerund or the infinitive with the following verbs: remember forget. stop regret 1 Decide what the difference in meaning is between the two ses of each verb in the following pairs of sentences. mean 4 a | tried having tenis lessons, but they didn't make much difference to my game. b | tried to have tennis lessons, but none ofthe teachers was available in the evening 5a |'mlad | took the exam. It meant doing a lot more studying, but it wes wort it inthe end. 'b | meant to do some studying last night, but Tom called and we spent an hour on the phone. 22 lL—, . Review Word formation |. In 1-6 below, one of the four words is not normally used. Underline the word. 1 undercook —undercharge underestimate _undersleep 2 overgrown overweight overlittle overcrowded 3 overeat oversing oversleep overwork 4 misbehave misunderstand misspell missucceed 5 dislove dishonesty disappearance disobedience 6 manageress _doctoress actress waitress 2. For questions 1-6, complete each of the spaces with the correct form of one of the words from exercise 1. 1 These jeans should have cost £30, but the assistant made a mistake and me. I only paid £20 for them. 2 The house has been abandoned for years. That's why the garden is looking so 3 I'm sorry I'm late. My alarm didn't go off, so 1 4 You've my surname. There are two ‘ts in Hutton, not one. 5 Police are investigating the of confidential documents from the Prime Minister's office. 6 Shall Task the ___for the bill? 3. Now write five sentences of your own using some of the other words from exercise 1. Leave a space in each sentence where the word should be and ask another student to complete them. Use of English: °) Word formation am Read the following text about the sport of free-diving. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). Former swimming (0) __instructor_ Tanya Streeter, 26, has achieved what many INSTRUCT ‘thought was (1)_______ and dived to 370 feet below the sea on asingle POSSIBLE lungful of air. 2) in free-diving take a deep breath before COMPETE @ into the depths of the ocean. Rigorous training has helped APPEAR Tanya to go deeper than male (4)____and break one of the most DIVE difficult diving records, Free-diving is a dangerous sport. Deaths are frequent and it is not 6) ‘to pass out or have a nose bleed on the descent. Tanya, who COMMON ‘can hold her breath for five minutes (6)___, says that many men tried WATER t0(7) her from attempting to break the record. ‘They all said COURAGE it was (8) that a woman could reach such depths without breathing LIKELY equipment. They (9) my abilities and I proved them wrong.’ In 1988 JUDGE the French film (10) Luc Besson made a film about free-diving, DIRECT Le Grand Bleu, which became the biggest box-office hit in France of all time. How long can you hold your breath for? How far ean you swim underwater? 24

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