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B Answer the questions below. Discuss your answers with a partner.
1 Name an important sports event. ______________ _
2 Name a popular athlete. ________________ _
3 Are you a competitive person? ______________ _
4 Do you ever fight with your parents or friends? _________ _
A Read the paragraph below. Find the missing parts of speech for the Vocabulary Skill
word families in the chart below. Add the words to the chart. Word Families
In this -chapter, you
learned the word
Evecy yeac my high echool hae a epelling competition Student& from competitive. In Chapter 1,
different gradee compete againet each other for flret prize; S 5,0001 you learned the word
compete. These words
Ibie year. my :friend ,Jon entered , , , and be won! At the end, the last are in the same word
two competitor& were, Ion and a girl named Angie Ihe winning word family. You can build
your vocabulary by
wae earcophague After, Jon epelled it eveeyone wae 14uiet Iben the learning word families.
teacher eaid "Congratulatione You�re thie year'e winner•"_
/' Noun Verb Adjective ""'\
1 1 . competition competitive
2.
2
win
\..
B Complete the sentences with the correct words from the chart in A.
1 Leo is so _______ ! He always wants to ______ _
2 In the swimming race, one was a boy named James.
3 Here's my lottery ticket. What are the _______ numbers?
4 There are five skaters in this year's ice-skating ______ _
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