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• HELP WITH VOCABULARY
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• Word building (3): word families
a Work in pairs. Fill in the gaps in the table with the
• words in bold in the article. Write the infinitive form of
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• the verbs .
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• verb noun adjective
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• disappoint disappointment disappointed, disaJ2QointinJJ
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• enjoyment enjoyable
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• protect protection ---
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• care care
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• attract attractive
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entertain entertaining
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relax
relaxing, relaxed
The real Spider-Man b Look at the table again. Underline the suffixes in the
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nouns and adjectives.
1 Alain Robert has climbed about 100 of the world's tallest •
buildings, including the Empire State Building in New • disappointment, disappoint~ disappointing
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York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Petronas Twin • c Do we use these suffixes to make nouns (N) or
Towers in Malaysia. It's not surprising people call him •
• adjectives (A)?
'The real Spider-Man'. •
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2 Alain began climbing on the cliffs near where he lived in • -ment N -ing A -ed -able -ion
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Valence, France. O ne day, when he was 12, he got home • I -ive -ful -less -ence -ation
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and realised that he'd forgotten his keys. So he climbed up •
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the side of the building and into his family's flat through the • d Check in i!lt!lf!1:lllf!1;tlfl• p154 .
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window - which was eight floors up. That was when he •
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decided to become a professional climber. a Work in pairs. Look at the verbs in the table. Fill in the
3 In his teens he climbed all the difficult mountains in the • gaps with the correct nouns and adjectives.
Alps and found them "rather disappointing". However, •
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he did have a few bad falls. In 1982 he fell 15 metres • verb noun adjective
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and was in a coma for five days. Doctors said he'd never • create creation creative
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climb again. Alain was back on a mountain after only six •
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months. • pollute -
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4 In 1994 he climbed his first skyscraper, in Chicago, and • employ
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realised he enjoyed doing what seemed impossible. He • embarrass
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climbs without ropes or protective equipment - just with •
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his hands and feet. He's always very careful, of course, • depend
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but admits that the danger is part of the attraction. Also • harm
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he usually climbs without permission, which means he • predict
often gets arrested. "That's no problem," says Alain. • --
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"I prefer staying in prison to staying in hospital." • confuse ---
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5 For the release of the first Spider-Man film in 2002, Alain • reserve - - - -
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climbed the tallest skyscraper in Venezuela wearing a • b Check in llM@:li!f!j;tlfl• p154 .
Spider-Man costume and was watched live on TV by over •
10 million people. He also climbed the 88-storey Jin M ao
Building in Shanghai in 2007, again dressed as Spider- Work in pairs. Take turns to say a verb. Your partner says
Man, after which he was arrested and held in prison for the noun and adjective(s).
five days. And in 2011 he climbed the tallest building in
create creation, creative
the world, the 828-metre Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai, in
just over six hours. ~ ~
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6 However, Alain doesn't climb buildings just to provide . Create your own superhero! Work in groups. Look
entertainment for the public. For him, climbing is a form at p114.
of relaxation, but there's also a deeper meaning to what
he does. "It gives me a sense of what is important on
Earth," he says. "When you're facing your own death,
money is not that important."