FAMILY WORDS: adaptabilities, adaptability, adaptable, adaptation, adaptations, adapted, adapter, adapters, adapting, adaptive, adaptor, adaptors, adapts, unadapted

Learning the Word

1. First, read the entry for ADAPT in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Do this very carefully, and try and understand as much as you can from the entry.
2. Look at the way ADAPT is used in sentences by clicking ADAPT, adaptabilities, adaptability, adaptable, adaptation, adaptations, adapted, adapter, adapters, adapting, adaptive, adaptor, adaptors, adapts, unadapted,
3. (Advanced) Find words with similar meanings to ADAPT by using the thesaurus.

Reviewing the Word

Now complete the following gap fill activity related to ADAPT.

Practising the Word

Watch the following video about an organisation called 'ADAPT'. Whilst watching, make notes about the following questions:

1. What is 'ADAPT'?

2. How does 'ADAPT' try to achieve its aims?

3. What is the big issue for 'ADAPT' at the moment, and why do they feel it is important?

Next go to the Great Animals Vocabulary WIKI for some further practice with ADAPT.

Meanwhile, your BLOG entry for this word family should have the title 'Adapting to Something New'. In this entry, talk about a time when you had to adapt to something new, for example, a new school, a new college, a new job, a new country etc. What kind of adaptations did you have to make? What were the most difficult things to adapt to? Etc.

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