Ejercicio 2 · Word formation
Word formation: 8 preguntas con solución explicada y descarga en PDF.
Escribe la palabra derivada que encaja en cada hueco. Se corrige solo y te explica cada fallo. Si lo prefieres en papel, lo tienes en PDF aquí arriba.
Ejercicio 2 · Word formation
Escribe la palabra derivada que encaja en cada hueco.
The quiet rise of the repair café
Ten years ago, the idea of taking a broken toaster to a volunteer in a church hall would have struck most people as (1) . Today there are repair cafés in more than thirty countries, and their (2) shows no sign of slowing.
The appeal is partly financial, but organisers insist it is mainly about (3) . Customers arrive expecting a free service and leave having learned something, which they find unexpectedly (4) . Volunteers, many of them retired engineers, describe the work as far more (5) than the jobs they were paid to do.
Manufacturers have not always been (6) . Some argue, with a certain (7) , that repairing modern devices is unsafe. Others have quietly begun publishing manuals again, an (8) that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
- (1) RIDICULEridiculous — adjetivo derivado de ridicule.
- (2) GROWgrowth — sustantivo de grow.
- (3) KNOWknowledge — sustantivo irregular de know.
- (4) SATISFYsatisfying — el adjetivo en -ing describe la experiencia, no a la persona.
- (5) REWARDrewarding — gratificante.
- (6) HELPhelpful — el contexto pide un adjetivo positivo negado por not.
- (7) PLAUSIBLEplausibility — sustantivo detrás de with a certain.
- (8) ADMITadmission — sustantivo de admit.