After You Listen

Vocabulary – Strategy 2: Recognizing Word Families

Many words belong to groups called word families. For example, speak, speaker, spoke, and unspoken are related words; they are all in the same word family. By adding suffixes or prefixes, or changing the spelling slightly, words can play different grammatical roles.

To complete each sentence below, choose an adjective, adverb. noun, or verb from the word family.

1.

Some students feel calling their teacher by a first name.

  1. awkward
  2. awkwardly
  3. awkwardness

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2.

Many people pronounce unfamiliar names .

  1. awkward
  2. awkwardly
  3. awkwardness

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3.

To show , a smile and a “thank you” is often enough.

  1. grateful
  2. gratefully
  3. gratitude

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4.

Someone who appreciates your help is a person.

  1. grateful
  2. gratefully
  3. gratitude

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5.

Poor can be the reason that cellphones don’t always work.

  1. receptionist
  2. receiver
  3. reception

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6.

Are you to new ideas? If so, we could say you are open-minded.

  1. reception
  2. receptive
  3. receive

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7.

Parents who dream their kids will become doctors may be if their children choose to work in a trade.

  1. disappoint
  2. disappointed
  3. disappointing

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8.

It is to watch your favourite sports team lose a match.

  1. disappointment
  2. disappointing
  3. disappointedly

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