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EF C1.1 p 43. Share the Hate, Ruin the Date. Word Formation
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Hater promises to bond potential lovers over things the loathe. (1)____________ (TURN) the traditional cheery positives, Hater allows eager singletons to form relationships based on their mutual (2)_______________ (AVERT) instead. Boy, let's really get that negativity out there! More openly expressed (3)____________ (HATE) in the world- just what we need!
Nevertheless, like most apps, it would pass the time (4)___________ (HAPPY) enough at a bus stop. If someone else at the same bus stop were also on the app, (5)________________ (SIMULTANEITY) swiping their own (6)_______________ (LIKE) of cat calendars or people who walk too (7)______________ (SLOW) in the street, that would make a decent start for (8)________________ (FLIRT).
And yet, and yet. One of the key dangers of the internet is that it (9)______________ (COURAGE) us to give everything an immediate verdict, a thumbs up or down (and usually down). It’s easy for our first thoughts on anything to be negative, and we forget to be kind.
The search for love has always motivated us to make an effort; on first dates, we are usually our best selves. Our hair is at its (10)_______________ (CLEAN), our interest its (11)_______________ (SHARP), our smiles their (12)______________ (READY). That’s why dating (13)_______________ (QUESTION) (14)_______________ (TRADITION) list the things we enjoy: it’s a shop window for the happy life we are offering a (15)__________________ (PROSPECT) partner. And (16)_________________ (SURE), the longer you keep trying to be your best and most (17)_________________ (CHEER) self, the happier life will be? It can’t be wise to start (18)__________________ (COMPLAINT) before you’ve even had your first date. When it comes to finding a partner, (19)_____________ (COVER) the things you both love is a far (20)________________ (HEALTH) start.
Adapted from The Guardian
KEY
1. Overturning
2. aversions
3. hatred
4. happily
5. simultaneously
6. dislike
7. slowly
8. flirtation
9. encourages
10. cleanest
11. sharpest
12. readiest
13. questionnaires
14. traditionally
15. prospective
16. surely
17. cheerful
18.complaining
19. discovering
20. healthier
EF C1.1 p 26. Roald Dahl: Boy. Open Cloze and Word Formation
Open Cloze
Part 1 Every (1)_____________ and again, a plain grey cardboard box was dished (2)__________ to each boy in our House, and this, (3)____________ it or not, was a
present from the great chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury. Inside
the box there were twelve (4)___________ of chocolate, all of different
shapes, all with different fillings, and all with numbers from one
to twelve stamped on the chocolate underneath. Also in the box there was a (5)__________ of paper with the
numbers one to twelve on it as well as two blank columns, one
for giving marks to each chocolate from nought to ten, and the
other for comments.
Word formation
All we were required to do in return for this (6)___________ (SPLENDOUR) gift was
to taste very (7)_____________ (CARE) each bar of chocolate, give it marks, and
make an intelligent comment on why we loved or (8)___________ (LIKE) it.
It was a clever stunt. Cadbury’s were using some of the (9)____________ (GREAT) chocolate-bar experts in the world to test out their
new inventions. We were of a sensible age, between thirteen
and eighteen, and we knew (10)___________ (INTIMACY) every chocolate bar in (11)_____________ (EXIST), from the Milk Flake to the Lemon Marshmallow. Quite (12)____________ (OBVIOUS) our opinions on anything new would be (13)___________ (VALUE). All of
us entered into this game with great gusto, sitting in our studies
and nibbling each bar with the air of connoisseurs, giving our
marks and making our comments. ‘Too subtle for the common
palate’ was one note that I remember writing down.
Part 2
For me, the (14)_____________ (IMPORTANT) of all this was that I began to realize
that the large chocolate companies (15)_____________ (ACTUAL) did possess
inventing rooms and they took their inventing very (16)_____________ (SERIOUS).
I used to picture a long white room like a laboratory with pots
of chocolate and fudge and all sorts of other delicious fillings
bubbling away on the stoves, while men and women in white
coats moved between the bubbling pots, tasting and mixing and
concocting their wonderful new (17)_____________ (INVENT). I used to imagine
myself working in one of these labs and suddenly I would come
up with something so (18)________________ (BEAR) delicious that I would grab it
in my hand and go rushing out of the lab and along the corridor
and right into the offices of the great Mr Cadbury himself. ‘I’ve
got it, Sir’ I would shout, putting the chocolate in front of him.
‘It’s fantastic! It’s fabulous! It’s marvellous! It’s (19)_______________ (RESIST)!’
Slowly, the great man would pick up my newly-invented
chocolate and he would take a small bite. He would roll it round
his mouth. Then all at once, he would leap up from his chair,
crying, ‘You’ve got it! You’ve done it! It’s a miracle!’ He would
slap me on the back and shout, ‘We’ll sell it by the million! We’ll
sweep the world with this one! How on earth did you do it? Your
salary is doubled.’
It was lovely dreaming those dreams, and I have no doubt at
all that thirty-five years later, when I was looking for a plot
for my second book for children, I remembered those little
cardboard boxes and the (20)____________ (NEW) invented chocolates inside them,
and I began to write a book called Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory.
KEY
1. now
(every) now and then/again: sometimes, but not very often. From time to time. Occasionally.
E.g.
We meet up for lunch now and then, but not as often as we used to.
2. out
dish something out (informal): to give something, often to a lot of people or in large amounts. Sp. repartir.
E.g.
Students dished out leaflets to passers-by.
She's always dishing out advice, even when you don't want it
3. believe
believe it or not (informal): used to introduce information that is true but that may surprise people.
E.g.
Believe it or not, he asked me to marry him!
4. bars
a bar of chocolate
5. sheet
a sheet of paper
6. splendid
7. carefully
8. disliked
9. greatest
10. intimately
11. existence
12. obviously
13. valuable/ invaluable
14. importance
15. actually
16. seriously
17. inventions
18. unbearably
19. irresistible
20. newly
EF C1.1 p 14. The Night Receptionist. Word Formation
People assume I get bored, but I enjoy the (1)___________ (SOLITARY) . I like the (2)_________ (HOUR) walks through the quiet corridors and listening to the patter of the rain on the windows while enjoying a cup of tea. I enjoy finishing a good book or watching the birds in the car park feeding on the muffins I put out yesterday.
The (3)___________ (TIRED) is the hardest. Sometimes I have a good routine and my sleep is not affected. Other times, I walk into doors, zombie-like, and (4)____________ (OCCASION) I’ve been surprised to find that I’ve actually made it home. My husband tells me I should find a new job, and I have been applying for some since I began working here, but ‘night receptionist’ is not a good thing to put on a CV.
I’m good with people; I just don’t like a lot of them. But though my job often (5)____________(PERPETUAL) this (6)__________(LIKE), I am (7)______________ (COMPASSION) towards those in need. I never think twice about letting someone in from the cold, or giving away a free room if it is a genuine cause. But if the intercom goes off at 2 a.m. and I see a couple who can hardly stand, I’ll probably say the hotel is full, even when it isn’t, (8)____________ (ESPECIAL) if I’ve just prepared a (9)____________(NOURISHMENT) AND (10)____________ (APPETITE) midnight snack.
KEY
1. solitude
2. hourly
3. tiredness
4. occasionally
5. perpetuates
6. dislike
7. compassionate
8. especially
9. NOURISHING
10. APPETIZING
EF p 12. 25 Jobs Before She Was 25. Cloze
Emma Rosen had one of the best, (1)___________ sought-after graduate
jobs in the country, in the civil service. 20,000 people apply, but (2)____________ than 1,000 are offered jobs. But it turned (3)___________ that she
didn’t like commuting and she didn’t like sitting (4)___________ a desk all day,
and she struggled to see how (5)____________ she was doing would make
much difference to anything. ‘I thought, ‘Get (6)_____________ it, you’re being
a snowflake millennial,’’ she says. ‘I had a job for life. I thought,
‘I’m so lucky to be here, I can’t believe I’m not enjoying it. What’s
wrong with me? (7)___________ am I so ungrateful and selfish?’’
Emma (8)_____________ have gone to work every day and complained (9)________________ her job (10)__________________ she reached retirement age. (11)_____________, she decided
to find out what made her happy, what her skills were, and what
sort of career (12)____________ use them. She wrote a bucket (13)_____________ of the
jobs she had wanted to do (14)____________ childhood and set (15)_____________ getting
two-week placements in all of them, over the course of a year.
She was 24 years old, and before her 25th birthday she wanted
to have tried out at (16)______________ 25 different jobs. She spent the months
before she resigned from the civil service saving up her salary to
cover the cost of her year off, and spent all her free time setting (17)____________ the different jobs.
‘There was archaeology in Transylvania, property development
for a company in London, alpaca farming in Cornwall, wedding
photography, travel writing, interior design, journalism, landscape
gardening, marketing, TV production, publishing – all things that
I thought I (18)____________ want to do.’
KEY
1. most
2. fewer
3. out
4. at
5. what
6. over
7. Why
8. could
9. about
10. until
11. Instead
12. would
13. list
14. since
15. about
16. least
17. up
set up: organise
E.g.
Can we set up a meeting for 8 November?
18. might
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