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The extra challenge 2: the ideas

Hello again everyone! Here is the second challenge of this "extra time". I'm sorry for the delay! I will be checking the words in the previous challenge soon. Keep an eye on the comments section! But in order to keep moving, let me tell you how to use the many words you have produced in challenge extra 1: The basic idea I wanted to present to you consists in presenting a series of topics and asking you to describe/develop/discuss the topic briefly using at least FIVE of the words you have created in challenge 1. I was inspired by the 50-word challenge , which some of you told me had been really enjoyable (if difficult). So here I was, asking myself what topics I could propose, and the exam being so near, all I could think of was sustainability, because it's always a favourite. You can never go wrong with that, which is why we insist on it so much for two years! I typed "sustainable" on google and the first collocations that appeared (the hottest top

The extra challenges 1: the words

Hi everyone! As some of you may know already, I have decided to post some extra challenges: ten new challenges that will take us all the way to the day of the exam! Are you ready for the revival? Our first challenge takes us to word formation, and hopefully, the answers will be completed collectively in the comments. How long has it been since you last brushed up your prefixes and suffixes? Let's see how fresh they are in your mind! Here's the first extra challenge: - Find below one root word for each letter of the alphabet. Think of as many elements in that word family as you can. - Share them in the comments. - If you're not the first to answer: check your partners' comments, and write in bold all the new additions you're making to each word family. Ex: B - beauty  -  beautiful, beautifully, beautician (this is my new addition) B - beauty  - beautiful, beautifully, beautician, beautify (?) (I write it with a question mark because I'm not