FCE word formation challenge game
FCE Use of English Part Three
with words from FCE Examination Papers with Answers 4 (CUP 2010) Tests 1 to 3
Choose one of the words below from real Cambridge First Use of English Part Three tasks and make as many true statements about words formed from it as you can. Any other form is okay, including other parts of speech, opposites, plurals and other tenses, as long as they make sense. Your teacher may ask you to spell them before you are given a point. You get one point for each correct form, but you lose all the points gained from that word if you make any mistake before you give up. You get a bonus point if you get all the forms on the teacher’s list for that word. You also get a bonus point if you choose the ones below which feature more than once in the book of past papers which these words come from.
- advantage
- automatic
- centre
- compete
- courage
- energy
- enjoy
- extraordinary
- finance
- general
- lead
- occupy
- operate
- pay
- photograph
- please
- popular
- power
- profession
- recognise
- scene
- signify
- solve
- spectacle
- steady
- success
- suit
- usual
- vary
- wealth
When your teacher stops the game, look at the suggested answers and ask about any forms which you are not sure about, discussing the part of speech and meaning as a class each time. Then do one of the exam tasks in the book which these words were taken from (or another exam book if you don’t have access to that one).
Suggested answers/ Sheet for teacher
Words in bold below are featured more than once in the test book these came from and so get bonus points
- advantage – advantages/ disadvantage/ disadvantaged/ disadvantages
- automatic – automatically/ automate/ automated/ automating/ automation
- centre – central/ centres/ centred/ centralise/ centralising/ centralised/ centralisation
- compete – competition/ competitor/ competitors/ competitions/ competes/ competed
- courage – discourage/ courageous/ encourage/ courageously/ discouraged/ encouraged/ encouraging/ discouraging/ encouragement/ discouragement
- energy – energetic/ energies/ synergy/ synergies/ unenergetic
- enjoy – enjoyable/ enjoyment/ enjoys/ enjoyed/ enjoying
- extraordinary – extraordinarily/ extraordinariness
- finance – financial/ financially/ financier/ financed/ financing
- general – generally/ generalise/ generalising/ generals/ generalised
- lead – leader/ leaders/ leadership/ leading/ leads
- occupy – occupation/ occupations/ occupied/ unoccupied/ occupying/ occupier/ occupiers
- operate – operated/ operating/ operation/ operations/ occupant/ occupants
- pay – paid/ payment/ paying/ pays/ payments
- photograph – photography/ photographer/ photographers/ photographic/ photographed/ photographs/ photographic
- please – pleases/ pleasant/ pleasure/ unpleasant/ pleasures/ pleased/ pleasing/ unpleased/ unpleasing/ displeasure
- popular – unpopular/ popularity/ unpopularity/ popularly/ popularise/ popularised/ popularising
- power – powerful/ powerfully/ powerless/ empower/ empowered/ powering/ powered/ empowering/ empowerment
- profession – professor/ professional/ professionally/ unprofessional/ unprofessionally
- recognise – recognition/ recognised/ recognising/ unrecognised
- scene – scenery/ scenic
- signify – significance/ significant/ significantly/ insignificance/ insignificant/ insignificantly
- solve – solution/ solutions/ solved/ solving/ dissolution/ dissolve/ dissolving/ dissolved/ unsolved
- spectacle – spectacles/ spectacular/ spectacularly/ unspectacular
- steady – steadily/ unsteadily/ unsteadiness/ steadiness/ steadying
- success – succeed/ succeeding/ succeeded/ successes/ successful/ successfully/ successor/ unsuccessful/ unsuccessfully/ succeeds
- suit – suitable/ unsuitable/ suitability/ unsuitability/ suitably/ unsuitably/ suits/ suited
- usual – unusual/ usually/ unusually/ usualness/ unusualness
- vary – various/ varied/ varying/ variation/ variations/ variable/ variability/ invariable/ invariability
- wealth – wealthy/ wealthiness
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Related pages
FCE Use of English Part Three page (with links to other word formation and Use of English stuff)
