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III. VOCABULARY EXPANSION: Oral Exercises

NOTE: Once you learn one form of a word, ex. verb: to heat, you should learn to
recognize and understand the other forms as they usually contain the
same basic meaning.

EXAMPLE: Verb: to heat, i.e., The sun heats the air.
Noun: heat, i.e., Deserts have a dry heat.

Noun: heaters, i.e., Small electric heaters are cheap.

Adjective: heating, i.e., Many houses have central heating
systems.

Adjective: heated, i.e., The heated air expands and rises.
Abbreviations: Noun = n. Verb = v. Adjective = adj. Adverb = adv.

Use the correct forms of the words listed to complete the following sentences. Some of the
words may be used more than once.

a. angle(s), n. angle(d), v. angled, adj.
1) When you come to the intersection, take the road that __________ to the right.

2) We learned how to measure _______________ in school.
3) During one part of the year the northern hemisphere is _________toward the sun.

4) The road goes up the mountain in a series of _____________ turns.

b. cool(ed), v. cooling, adj. cooled, adj.

cooler, n. coolly, adv. cool (er) (est), adj.

1) This ___________ will keep soft drinks cold for about three hours.

2) In this section of the country ________________ weather begins in September.

3) I'll have to wait until the coffee _____________ before I can drink it.
4) A lot of cars don't use water, they have air __________________ engines.

5) Our classrooms were very hot last week, the central __________ system was
broken.