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Each worksheet in this section focuses on one particular word and analyses some of its many meanings and uses.

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This section deals with some of the most important and versatile words in the English language. These words form some of the core vocabulary of any speaker, but they may have so many uses and meanings that the learner would need to learn these new meanings and uses while progressing through the levels. The aim of this section is to explore these words as fully as possible to practise them as much as possible. So far there are four words in this section: act, get, nerve and time. Other words will be added in the password protected sections, including give, go, make/do, move and take.

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Body words

Body Words - Eye Extended meanings of the word eye.
Body Words - Eye gapfill Extended meanings of the word eye.
Body Words - Hand Extended meanings of the word hand.
Body Words - Hand gapfill Extended meanings of the word hand.



Good

The Good Page Uses of the word good with prepositions.
The Good Page gapfill Uses of the word good with prepositions.


Act

Act act, action, active, actual, enact, etc
Act gapfill act, action, active, actual, enact, etc



Get
Get + object Verb substitutes for get
Get + object gapfill Verb substitutes for get
Get - Change of state 1 get doing, get done
Get - Change of state 1 gapfill get doing, get done
Get - Change of state 2 get doing, get done
Get - Change of state 2 gapfill get doing, get done
Get - Change of state 3 get big, get bigger
Get - Change of state 3 gapfill get big, get bigger
Get - Change of state 4 get big, get bigger
Get - Change of state 4 gapfill get big, get bigger
Get - Produce a result 1 get (someone) to do something
Get - Produce a result 1 gapfill get (someone) to do something


Make and do
Make and do 1 Uses of the verbs make and do
Make and do 1 gapfill Uses of the verbs make and do


Nerve
Nerve nerve, nerveless, nervous, unnerved
Nerve gapfill nerve, nerveless, nervous, unnerved



Time
Time - determiners sometimes, sometime, every time
Time - determiners gapfill sometimes, sometime, every time
Time - words and expressions 1 time's up, time's tight, overtime
Time - words and expressions 1 gapfill time's up, time's tight, overtime


Hot and cold
Hot words Compound words with hot
Hot words gapfill Compound words with hot

Answers
Answers Answers to all the exercises