aspire verb
spire noun
aspiration noun
aspirational adjective
Tom _______to become a doctor.
The children listened to an __________ speaker and felt motivated to help others.
What is your _________ for the future?
The lofty church _______ soared upwards to the clouds.
Grammar Exercise
Fill in the space with the missing word.
1. You have put your shoes on.
2. You should haveput your shoes on.
3. Wehave no money left.
4. We would have no money left if we didn't save it.
4 They have got 3 tries.
5. They might have got 3 tries if he had run faster.
6. We have gone to the movies.
7. We could have gone to the movies if we had not missed the bus.
Write down sentences using two of these words
current
currently
concurrently
recurrent
1. He was studying the sciences and the art _____________
2. What is the __________ temperature outside?
3. A ___________ problem was Tom's absence from school.
4. The topic we are ___________ studying is called Art Alive
Fortune
Noun: Fortune, misfortune fortuitousness
Adjective: fortunate, misfortunate, unfortunate, fortuitous, unfortuitous
Adverb: fortunately, unfortunately, misfortunately, fortuitously, unfortuitously
1. It was very ____________ that he just missed the bus by minutes.
2. He slipped and _________ just missed, by millimeters, slashing his head on a sheet of metal.
3. It was his __________ that the rain came just as he left the house.
4.
Express
Verb: express
Adjective: expressive unexpressive expressionless
What words fit in this word family?
1. Picasso's is often classified in the group of painters whose style is known as _____________
2. The speech was so boring as the speaker spoke ____________ . His voice was a monotone.
3. It is important to use __________ when recording your voice overs.
4. The painter tried to _________ the theme of loneliness by using dark colours.
5. "I love it," said declared _________.
content
What words fit in this word family?
nouns -contentment discontentment
adjective - content discontent
adverb - contentedly discontentedly
From the words we generate which fits where?
1. The cat slept _________ on Tom's lap.
2.She felt quite _______ with her painting so she left it to dry.
3. Tiara slammed her book shut _______, feeling frustrated at not being able to make sense of it.
4. With ____________ she looked at her newly weeded garden and smiled.
5. The scowl on his face, as he opened he envelope, showed his __________ with his results.
See how many ways you can change these sentences by adding to the front/middle/back.
Make sure your sentences make sense, and your adding has enhanced them not made them clunky.
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