Use the words in the box once each to complete the paragraph below. Beware that the stressed syllable changes:
Verb
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Nouns
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Adjectives
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produce
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product
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productive
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production
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unproductive
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productivity
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producer
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produce
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A few years ago, Harry Coe’s, a large (1) ... of
tinned food (2) ...s, decided that some of their workers were not
(3)... enough. Much of the work of preparing fruit and vegetables was
done on rows of tables rather than on a (4)... line. So they decided
to introduce a piecework system, whereby workers got paid according
to the amount of work they completed. The company thought that this
would motivate previously (5)... workers, and thereby increase
(6).... Yet the new pay scheme did not (7)... the results they
expected: after six months they were still processing the same amount
of agricultural (8)…, but there was a lot of dissatisfaction among
the workers who were now all earning different amounts of money.
