Task 1. Complete the text with the derivatives of the words.
I Don’t Feel Like Ending Up Bachelorhood Now

1.Mark Ball has been concentrating on his RECENT
2.life, 3.his relation with PERSON, SPECIFIC
Claire Jackson 4. have chronicled his and PHOTOGRAPH
Claire’s 5.meeting in Italy, Greece, Spain and ROMANCE
in the 6.part of France. By the look of it, the romance SOUTH
is going from 7.to 8. leading to the STRONG, STRONG
obvious 9.about their 10.. Though in SPECULATE, MARRY
one of the interviews Mark has said that for now, at least, he is
not feeling like ending up his Bachelorhood.

Task 2. Choose the appropriate items to complete the sentences.
1. The farmer somehow managed tofrom the arid land.
a. scratch a living b. scratch a surface c. scratch together d. scratch around
2. Clara has always been to take any decision.
a. hesitating b. hesitant c. hesitation d. hesitated
3. There were serious in the city last summer.
a. disturbs b. distresses c. disturbances d. distributions
4. These drugs are for the of tropical diseases.
a. treaty b. treats c. treating d. treatment
5. The child rubbedwhat he had written on the blackboard.
a. along b. down c. in d. out
6. The kids went to the park while sat in the garden.
a. growns b. growners c. grown-ups d. growns-up

Task 3. Complete the text.
1. had biscuits 5. where we found them
2. watch for traffic 6. in the plastic cup
3. and the plant goes up 7.at nursery school
4. and play and work
Wisdom Gained in the Sandpit
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do and how to be I heard
A. Wisdom was not at the top of the university mountain, but there in the sandpit. These are the things I learnt. Share everything. Play fair. Put things back B. Clean up your own mass. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Live a balanced life: learn a bit, and draw and sing and dance Cevery day.
Take a nap in the afternoon. When you go into the world, D, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down
E, and nobody really knows why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed F-they all die. So do we. And then one of the fish words you learn to read, the biggest word at all: look.
Think what a better world be if we all Gabout three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap or if we had a basic policy always to put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.