Word Formation (FCE task)

Разделы: Конкурс по английскому языку «Cambridge English Teacher»

Классы: 10, 11

Ключевые слова: английский язык

ФОРМА УЧАСТНИКА КОНКУРСА CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH TEACHER

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Activity title:

Word transformation (FCE task).

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Skill(s):

reading a short text with numbered spaces and writing the missing words changing their forms to complete the gaps.

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Level(s):

B2

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Exam part:

Reading and Use of English, Part 3.

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Aim(s):

The task is designed to test the vocabulary.

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Materials needed:

All answers must go on an answer sheet.

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Preparation:

Teachers should choose texts suitable for B2-level learners.

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Procedure:

Step 1. Candidates should skim the text. Having an overview of the content will help to identify the right form of eight words they have to change.

Step 2. Candidates should work through the text, reading the whole sentence to choose the correct form of words to complete the gap.

Step 3. When all the gaps in the text are completed, candidates should read the whole text again to make sure it makes sense.

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Variation(s)

Exercise 1

The (1) ______ thing about modern moral debates "is their interminable character", the Scottish philosopher Alasdair Macintyre once observed, sounding like a man already sick of Twitter, even though he wrote it in 1981. "I do not mean by this just that such debates go on and on - although they do - but also that they (2) ______ can find no terminus." That's because we conduct our quarrels, he argued, with two clashing assumptions. We start from certain values we realise we can't (3) ______, on grounds that everybody would accept. But then we argue as if our opponents might be swayed by (4) ______ arguments emerging from those values.

STRIKE

APPARENT

JUSTICE

RATION

Philosophers, including Macintyre, have proposed (5) ______ paths out of this quagmire. But the immediate practical point is that we should stop assuming the other side is being either (6) ______, insincere, or both. Sometimes, they just have different values; though you don't need to indulge those values, you'll get nowhere by pretending they're not really there.

VARY

LOGIC

Since we're on the topic of people who trigger partisan anger, it seems apt to close with a quote from Tony Blair, in (7) ______ to a colleague who asked if he'd drop the New Labour rebranding now that he'd been elected: "It's worse than you think: I (8) ______ do believe in it."

RESPOND

REAL

Answers: 1) striking 2) apparently 3) justify 4) rational 5) various 6) illogical 7) response 8) really

(The article «You can walk a mile in someone else's shoes, but still won't agree». The Guardian, 22.02.2019)

Exercise 2

Dozens of UK business (1) _____ are using artificial intelligence to scrutinise staff behaviour minute-to-minute by harvesting data on who emails whom and when, who accesses and edits files and who meets whom and when. OWN
The (2) _____ of 130,000 people in the UK and abroad are being monitored in real-time by the Isaak system, which ranks staff members' attributes. ACT
Designed by London company Status Today, it is the latest example of a trend for using algorithms to manage people, which trade unions fear creates (3) _____ but others predict could reduce the effects of bias. TRUST
The system shows bosses how (4) _____ workers are and whether they are " (5)______" or "change-makers". The computer can also compare (6) ____ data with

COLLABORATE
INFLUENCE
ACTIVE

(7) ____ assessments of workers from personnel files or sales (8) ______ figures to give managers a detailed picture of how behaviour affects output.

QUALITY
PERFORM

Answers: 1) owners 2) actions 3) distrust 4) collaborative 5) influencers 6) activity 7) qualitative 8) performance

(The article «UK businesses using artificial intelligence to monitor staff activity». The Guardian, 07.04.2019)

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Reflections

Such tasks are very helpful for vocabulary practice and help learners build confidence in word formation.