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 to_from 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 rubbed_what 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 C_every 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 G_about 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.