CPE project - n.1 | Homework | Try this challenge if you can.

Hi, it's me Mario!
Here we are again. A week has almost passed and tomorrow I'll have the third lesson - can't wait for it.
It always surprises me how much I like going to Naples and attending this course, I really enjoy these lessons and even the break, the holy break that helps me not go bananas during two and a half hours of English.

But now, let's talk about something specific. 
John, our teacher, asked us to do some homework for tomorrow - and as usual, I'm late.
(Sorry John, forgive my endless procrastination.)
Today we will carry out two different tasks, one linked to the last lesson and the second linked - maybe - to the next one.

First Task:

Analyse three words and express their meanings in the same way a Dictionary does:

• Legenda:  (n): noun - C: Countable. 

                   (v): verb - [T]: Transitive

1. Villain  /ˈvɪlən/: (n) C - name that refers to someone who plays the bad guy, the evil character, the antagonist who never follows the rules. Often people fall in love with him or her and in the end he/she usually dies or becomes good. 

2. Inspire /ɪnˈspaɪə/: (v) [T] - inspire someone: when a person, with her/his acts or words, is able to motivate someone to do something or change something. 

Sometime this verb can even refer to art or a book, in general, to everything that stimulates someone's soul. 

3. Reality /rɪˈælɪtɪ/: (n) C - abstract entity you can only live and that is sometimes always not like you'd expect. Often people blame Disney or, in general, movies and books for their high levels of reality/life expectation. 

Second Task: 

Create a "Word-Formation" exercise:

This type of exercise is common in all the Cambridge exams and you have to put the right word in the space, using the keywords in brackets. Obviously, the word in brackets is the "root" of the whole word, and from this root you can create a verb, a noun, an adjective, an adverb both in the positive form or in the negative one. So, you need to pay attention to the context and read several time before writing your answer. 

The boy who ____ (live)

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were ______ (perfect) normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you ______ (expect) to be involved in anything strange or ________ (mystery), because they just didn't hold with such _______ (sense).
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with _______ (hard) any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very _______ (use) as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no ______ (fine) boy anywhere.
The Dursleys had _______  (thing) they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their _______ (great) fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they _______ (meet) for several years;
in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her
sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be.

[...]

He______(live) with the Dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could remember, ever since he'd been a baby and his parents had died in that car crash. He couldn't remember being in the car when his parents had died. Sometimes, when he strained his memory during long hours in his _______ (board), he came up with a strange vision: a _______ (blind) flash of green light and a burning pain on his _______ (head). This, he supposed, was the crash, though he couldn't imagine where all the green light came from. He couldn't remember his parents at all. His aunt and uncle never spoke about them, and of course he was forbidden to ask questions. There were no ________ (photo) of them in the house. 

If you want, you poor peasants, you can try to do the second exercise even if you don't attend our course. It would be a pretty cute challenge because many of my friends here love Harry Potter and with this they can prove if they are a real fan or not.

So, the game is on, everyone can reply to this post and leave their answers without cheating.


And it's all for today,
see you next week and enjoy the challenge.


XOXO
Gossip Girl  T.S.