T2 Word formation

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This lesson contains 19 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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WORD FORMATION

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Today's lesson
Aim:
Practising word formation

Outcomes:
- You can explain in your own words what word formation is
- You can form nouns, verbs and adjectives with given root words
- You can correctly change a word  to fit in given sentences

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What is word formation?
Word formation is changing the form of a word 

e.g. from a noun to an adjective, or from a verb to a noun.  




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 For example:
The _____ was very nervous. (sing)

You have to complete the sentence with the person noun (singer). 
You change the verb (sing) into the person noun (singer).

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Follow these steps:
• Look at the word you have to change. 
Which words do you know that are in the same word family?

• The beginning of the word is often the same and the end of the word changes.
 


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Follow these steps:
• What form is the new word? A verb? A noun? An adjective? An adverb?

• Nouns often end: -ment, -ion, -ness, -ity.

• People nouns often end: -er, -or, -ist, -ian.

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Follow these steps:
• Adjectives often end: -able, -ible, -ive, -al, -ic, -ed, -ing.

• Some verbs end: -ise, -ate, -en.

• Adverbs often end: -ly.


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Follow these steps:
• Is the new word negative? If so, you may need a prefix, e.g. un- (unhappy), im- (impolite), in- (inexperienced), dis- (dishonest), etc.

• If you don’t know the new word, guess. You may be right!

• Check your answers carefully when you finish

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Time to practise!
Change the following words:

Root word          -   verb form              - noun  form            - adjective form
know
produce
action
help

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Exercise
On the following slides you will find a couple of exercises.

Read the sentence and use the word in brackets  to form a new word that fits in the sentence.

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This queue hasn't moved in five minutes. I'm getting a bit ______!
(patient)

Slide 11 - Open question

If you go walking around the factory, ensure you have ______ clothing on.
(protect)

Slide 12 - Open question

Are you sure you have cleaned the kitchen? There is still a pretty _____ smell coming from it.
(pleasant)

Slide 13 - Open question

Finding a cure for cancer will be a huge _____ breakthrough for mankind.
(medicine)

Slide 14 - Open question

Have you seen my handbag John? It seems to have totally ________!
(appear)

Slide 15 - Open question

It isn't very ____ that Paula is at home, is it? She usually works at this time.
(like)

Slide 16 - Open question

I was just trying to be ___ towards him and he accused me of wanting his money! - (friend)

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Did you reach the lesson outcomes?
You can explain in your own words what word formation is
- You can form nouns, verbs and adjectives with given root words
- You can correctly change a word to fit in given sentences
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Slide 18 - Poll

Homework
We will be working on T&T during the English lesson on Thursday due to the scheduled first aid training during T&T today (4th). SO........                                                               for English!



See you 3rd hour online for T&T and in class Thursday :-)

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