FCE: Prefixes and Suffixes

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

Here we go! Can you guess what this is?

It's a coffee bean!

Important: 

Use of "log in names" in LessonUp

Any disrespectful names and we will stop using LessonUp as an interactive lesson!

What you need to know about negative prefixes

With adjectives, the most common negative prefixes are:

un- (unbelievable, etc)*

in- (inconvenient, etc)*

im- (impossible, immovable, etc)

ir- (irrelevant, etc)

il- (illegal, etc)

dis- (disagreeable, etc)

non- (non-negotiable, etc)

Grammar Rules 

* un___ / in____

The rules for ir-, il- and im- are much easier to learn and more general. As we have seen, these prefixes are followed by words beginning with particular letters, namely:

ir+r… (irreplaceable)

il+l… (illegible)

im+p… and im+m… (impassable, immature)

Unfortunately, the only way to  know when we use which prefix is just to  memorise words with un- and words with in- one by one.

Watch the video

What are prefixes?

What are suffixes?

Which ones are mentioned in the video?

What does each of these prefixes and suffixes mean? 

Memory Card Game

1. Get in Groups of three or four
2. Spread the cards across the table and take turns trying to find pairs of words which take the same negative prefix, keeping them if they match, or putting them back in the same places if they don’t. 
3. Play with the cards face down for extra fun and challenge.

SNAP

1. Deal out the pack of cards but don’t look at the cards.
2. Take turns putting your top card face down on the table, and race to be first to shout out “Snap” when the last two cards take the same negative prefix, e.g. when “polite” and “mature” are next to each other on the table. 
3. If you are right, you get all of the cards that are on the table and play continues. If the last two cards don’t match, they should just stay silent until the next card is turned over and put down. If you say “Snap” when the two cards don’t match, they have to pay a penalty by giving two cards to the other player(s). The winner is the first person to get all of the cards in the whole pack, or the person with most cards in their hand when the teacher stops the game.
   

Homework

We can do some exercises in tomorrow's English lesson  However........

Please make sure that you have studied the information  on slides 1-9  in this LessonUp very carefully as it forms the basis of the test on Thursday the 29th of January (Formative test  Prefixes and Suffixes).

MAKE CAREFUL NOTES OF THE CORRECT ANSWERS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK! 

Collocations

Which one word can be used to complete all of the following three sentences? 

1. The children were given a warm ........ of applause for their performance.

2. Shall we play a ........ of golf this weekend?

3. He decided not to go out with his friends as he couldn’t afford to buy a .......... of drinks.

COLLOCATIONS: ANSWERS

The missing word is ‘ROUND’. Write your own definition or example sentence to help you remember these collocations:

round of applause

round of golf

round of drinks

Lesson 2

Suffixes

Refresh your memory

Prefixes.....

Try and score 100% in the digital quiz on the next slide

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Remember the correct spelling ....only one "L"

Suffixes that change verbs to nouns

 (-er and -or)

These suffixes change the meanings

of verbs to name a person who does a job or action:

work/worker, love/lover, help/helper, act/actor.)

Suffixes that change verbs to nouns

 (-ness and -ment)

 -ness (a state of or condition of) and -ment (a result of).

 happy/happiness, dark/darkness, excite/

excitement, ill/illness, treat/treatment.)

Suffixes that create adverbs (-ly)

The suffix -ly. Words that end in -ly usually describe action words or adjectives [describing words].

Examples:  correct/correctly, love/lovely,

happy/happily. 

Suffixes that create adjectives (-able, -less, -est, and -ful)

 -able (can do it), -less (without), -est (the

most), -ful (full of). These suffixes change words so that they describe things.

Job Title Suffixes : -er -or & -ist

Is there any rule which tells us when to use ....er or ....or and when to use .....ist at the end of a job name?

There are no rules, I'm afraid, although a number of patterns emerge. Unskilled or semi-skilled job-holders are often denoted with …er, whilst those in scientific or medical professions are often designated with …ist. But there are many exceptions.

The …er suffix is very common, but so is …or. The …ist ending is also quite common, but so is …ant. We also have …ant (accountant, shop assistant, civil servant, flight attendant), …man (postman, fireman, dustman, barman, draughtsman, fisherman), …ess (waitress, hostess, Headmistress) …ee (trainee, employee) and …ive (representative, machine operative), etc.

Teacher 

Narrator

Explorer

Creator

noun

verb

teach

narrate (to tell a story)

explore (to discover)

to make something new

adjective

teachable

narrative

exploratory

creative 

adverb

___n/a_______

___n/a____

exploratively

creatively

A. Directions

1. Read the word in the first column aloud with your teacher.

2. Find the prefixes and suffixes and write them in the correct columns.

 3. Write the

meanings of the prefixes and suffixes.

4. Write the root word in the fourth column.

5. Write the word meaning in the last column.

3. Fatten

  X

  X

   X

   X

What is the opposite of the verb:?
to pack

What is the opposite of the verb: fair?

What is the opposite of: honest?

What is the adverb of the word: kind?

what is the verb of the word: negotiation?

What is the noun - "agree"

What is the opposite of the verb: (lock)

What is another way of saying: something is not factual

1. oncorrect
2. incorrect
3. imcorrect
4. uncorrect

the state of being asleep for the winter: (noun)

1. hibernation
2. hibernate
3. winter sleep
4. hibernatedly

Homework/Self study

IMPORTANT

Please make sure that you have studied the information in this LessonUp very carefully as it forms the basis of the formative test (Test  Prefixes and Suffixes) planned for Thursday the 30th of January.