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Word Formation Exercises

The document contains a word formation exercise where the last word of each line is used to form a new word to fill in the blank in that same line, describing owls as creatures with special meanings to people that have very good senses and hearing to protect their territory at night.

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Word Formation Exercises

The document contains a word formation exercise where the last word of each line is used to form a new word to fill in the blank in that same line, describing owls as creatures with special meanings to people that have very good senses and hearing to protect their territory at night.

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Word formation exercises

Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
For thousands of years the owl has been a (0) creature which has had a special (1) CREATE
______________ for people. Primitive people had many superstitions about the MEAN
owl, (2) ______________ because of the strange sound of the cries it makes. In MAIN
many parts of Europe, the hooting of an owl is (3) _____________ to be an omen THINK
of death.
In Ancient Greece, the owl was a symbol of (4) ______________ so it was WISE
closely linked with the female (5)______________Athena. GOD
The owl is a bird that really comes to life at night and its whole body is (6)
_____________ suited to this way of living. SPECIAL
An owl has very (7) ___________________ hearing and a remarkable (8) SENSE
_______________ to see in the dark. If there are any other animals around at ABLE
night, it will hear them (9)_____________________, and because the owl is so IMMEDIAT
(10) _______________ of its territory, it will frighten them away with some PROTECT
strange hoot.

Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line:

NOT A COMPUTER WHIZZ-KID


I was……lazily…………… browsing through the small ads in the local LAZY
newspaper when I saw an………………………for a second-hand ADVERTISE
word ………………………..so I decided to give them a ring to get PROCESS
more ……………………… . I have a computer but it doesn’t really INFORM
have a ………………….enough memory for the project I’m involved POWER
in at the moment. In most…………………..nowadays, it is becoming OCCUPY
useful to be “computer literate” but in my……………………….it has PROFESS
become an absolute…………………………. . I must admit I do not get NECESSARY
much……………………….out of sitting in front of a computer screen PLEASE
for hours, but I don’t stand much chance of……………………………. PROMOTE
without computer skills. So I made an ………………………………to APPOINT
See my bargain computer the next day.

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