Vocabulary: Community p. 27

Complete the community manifesto written by Joshua's group with the verbs from STEP 3.

Our community manifesto
1 Find a place: it can be a communal area or a private building, but it must be a safe space where people can meet to share and ________ ideas.
2 Prioritise relationships: ________ for official meetings, but also give importance to and ________ personal connections.
3 Ensure inclusiveness and diversity: it's good to ________, but also to meet formally and make sure to include a broad range of perspectives.
4 Listen first, then talk and act: ________ meetings to understand the local needs before giving solutions.
5 Get organised: choose which community project to focus on, then work together and organise an event and / or a campaign to ________ the public.

Match the words to their definitions.

A place where people go when they want to…
1 do physical activity: ________
2 buy something: ________
3 watch a film: ________
4 borrow a book or study: ________
5 drink a cup of coffee or have a snack: ________
6 pray or visit a monument: ________
7 have a walk in nature or relax: ________

Help Joshua complete the blog post about the community he lives in by choosing the correct alternative.

Do you want to know about the place where I live? It's a lively ________ outside the centre with a ________ in the middle, where people can meet. Nearby you find the shops and services you need – a café, the post office, a corner shop. There's no problem with ________, it's a safe area where we all know one another, plus there's always something going on, like a festival or an outdoor market. There's a sense of great ________ in all the events because all the neighbours work together.
I'm also part of a group that organises activities in the community. The ________ is free and the group includes neighbours of different ages and origins. This promotes ________ and is a great source of ideas. We often launch campaigns to collect funds for community needs and to preserve the ________ in our neighbourhood, which houses some historic sites. Right now we're trying to create an arts centre in an old warehouse and we need everyone's ________.

Write the correct verb near each definition.

socialise ● engage ● gather ● foster ● exchange ● participate in

1 When you meet people and form a group: ________
2 When you spend time together in a fun and / or relaxing way: ________
3 When you give and receive something from another person: ________
4 When you join an activity and take part in it: ________
5 When you encourage the development of something such as a feeling or an idea: ________
6 When you get involved in something or when you attract the attention or interest of another person: ________

Look at the word formation box on noun suffixes. Then use the noun suffixes given to create new words. Each suffix must be used twice.

-dom ● -ship ● -hood ● -ment

1 pay → ________
2 star → ________
3 citizen → ________
4 sister → ________
5 relation → ________
6 manage → ________
7 duke → ________
8 likely → ________