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=**EXPRESSING IDEAS & OPINIONS ** = === **Do you ever get tired of being misunderstood? Does it seem to you that sometimes people just don’t listen to you? It can be so frustrating! Of course, you want to be someone whose opinions are valued and who people actually listen to. ** **If you learn how to express your thoughts very clearly and have people listen to you, you will get such a thrill out of it! Everything you do in your work and personal life will be easier and more fun. But how do you put your ideas across and have people listen to you? ** **Here are a few tips which will enable you to express your ideas and opinions clearly: ** ===

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Have an aim in mind
It is a lot easier to speak expressively when you know what you’re talking about and what you want to achieve. If you have planned what you want to achieve from a conversation, you can be much more confident when you speak and that will allow you to do so more clearly.

Don’t stress about being perfect
Nothing and no-one is perfect, and no-one expects you to be perfect when you speak. It’s not an insurmountable problem if you make a small error in what you say. You can always correct yourself later. If you stress too much about making a mistake you will panic and fall apart. Don’t let that happen to you!

Keep it simple
What makes you stop listening when someone is talking to you? Perhaps one of the most likely times to switch off and not listen is when we are lectured. Being lectured is boring and it doesn’t give the listener any respect to their opinions. Then, no need to use fancy language. Simple words and sentences are best. These simple facts should be expressed in an animated, enthusiastic way to hold the attention of the person or people to whom you are talking. Don’t complicate things with details you don’t need.

Overcome your nervous
If you are nervous about speaking to a crowd of people, try pretending you are alone. If what you have to say is important, you should have practiced it beforehand, so just imagine yourself back in your practice situation. Imagine yourself alone and saying what you need to say in a relaxed environment. You will feel much more comfortable and you will speak much better as a result.

Practice and revise
If whatever you are saying is important to get right, make sure you practice a few times before you need to deliver your speech or have the conversation. As you practice, listen to yourself. Are you really saying what you want to say? If not, and something seems unclear – change it!

**Step 1: Vocabulary in Context **[[image:Untitled.jpg align="center"]]



 * Step 2: Find main idea**


 * Step 3: Supporting details**





Main Idea**
 * __ORGANISE MAIN IDEAS AND SUPPORTING DETAILS__

Major Supporting Detail # 1
 * 1) Minor Supporting Detail
 * 2) Minor Supporting Detail
 * 3) Minor Supporting Detail

Major Supporting Detail # 2
 * 1) Minor Supporting Detail
 * 2) Minor Suporting Detail
 * 3) MInor Supporting Detail

Major Supporting Detail # 3
 * 1) Minor Supporting Detail
 * 2) Minor Supporting Detail
 * 3) Minor Supporting Detail

Step 4: central point/main idea


 * Step 5: Signal Words**



=**SINGLE WORDS-PHRASES ** =

We have claimed that elements which have the same distribution have the same categorial status. We have also seen cases where phrases can be replaced by a single word. This leads us to the conclusion that these words have the status of the phrases they replace. This might sound contradictory, but it is not. The fact is that phrases can consist of one or more words.

Phrasal verbs are multi-word verbs constructed from a normal, single-word verb (**e.g., run, drink, or play**) and one or more additional words (usually words from the categories preposition and adverb) called particles. Phrasal verbs can be transitive (**e.g., walk into someone**) or intransitive (**e.g., sing along**). In the case of transitive phrasal verbs, the position of the particle may be fixed before the direct object (**e.g., come across (some money)**), after the direct object (**e.g., chat someone up — the verb being chat up**) or either (**e.g., bring a movie over or bring over a movie**).

Phrasal verbs consist of a "base verb" (**such as go, put or set**) and a "particle" (**such as down, back or off**).

**Phrasal verbs for formal or informal use**
Single-word verbs can be much less common in academic writing than their equivalent phrasal verbs. For instance, omit is used less frequently than the phrasal verb leave out; seek is less common than look for; and eradicate is used less often than stamp out. In other words, there are many situations - even in quite formal writing - when using a phrasal verb is the most common and natural way of expressing an idea. The phrasal verbs are used even though the writer can use a single-word.
 * consist of (comprise) || leave out (omit) ||
 * deal with (tackle) || look for (seek) ||
 * give up (abandon) || make up (invent) ||
 * grow up (become an adult) || slow down (decelerate) ||

There are also times when you have to use phrasal verbs because they express ideas that simply don't have a natural-sounding, single-word equivalent. Often, there are small, but important, differences in the meaning of a phrasal verb and a single-word verb. Take, for example, the phrasal verb slow down and the one-word verb decelerate. Decelerate can only be used as an alternative to slow down in certain situations

__ Internal structure of sentence elements __
Sentence elements may be one of three forms: a (single) **[|word], a [|phrase], a [|clause]**.

__ single word sentence elements __
Single word sentence elements may be directly related to [|parts of speech]. A single word subject or object is necessarily a noun. A single word verb is a verb. A single word predicative is either a noun or an adjective. Single word adverbials are adverbs.

__ phrasal sentence elements __
A phrasal sentence element is any group of words which collectively serve as a sentence element, but which does NOT constitute a clause. We can identify four types of phrase.
 * noun**: these phrases have a noun (or pronoun) head. Adjectives, determiners and relative clauses may modify the noun. Noun phrases may form the subject, object, predicative and adverbial sentence elements.
 * //the old **man** who lived next door// (with pre and post modification)

. =**DERIVATIONS: ROOT WORDS, PREFIXES & SUFFIXES ** =

Derivation ** is "Used to form new words, as with happi-ness  and <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">un-happy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> from <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">happy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, or <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">determination <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> from <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">determine <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. A contrast is intended with the process of inflection, which uses another kind of affix in order to form variants of the same word, as with <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">determine <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">/ <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">determine <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-s <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">/ <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">determin <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-ing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">/ <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">determin <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-ed <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A derivational suffix usually applies to words of one syntactic category and changes them into words of another syntactic category. For example, the English derivational suffix -ly changes adjectives into adverbs ( <span style="color: #109aea; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">slow <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #109aea; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">slowly <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">). Some examples of English derivational suffixes: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Although derivational affixes do not necessarily modify the syntactic category, they modify the meaning of the base. In many cases, derivational affixes change both the syntactic category and the meaning: modern → modernize ("to make modern"). The modification of meaning is sometimes predictable: Adjective + ness → the state of being (Adjective); (white→ whiteness). A prefix ( <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">write <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">re <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">write <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">; <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">lord <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">over <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">- <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">lord <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">) will rarely change syntactic category in English. The derivational prefix un- applies to adjectives ( <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">healthy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">un <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">healthy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">), some verbs ( <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">do <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">un <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">do <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">), but rarely nouns. A few exceptions are the prefixes en- and be-. En- (em- before labials ) is usually used as a transitive marker on verbs, but can also be applied to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verb: <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">circle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (verb) → <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">en <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">circle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (verb); but <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">rich <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (adj) → <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">en <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">rich <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (verb), <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">large <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (adj) → <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">en <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">large <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(verb), <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> rapture <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(noun) → <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">en <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">rapture <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (verb), <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">slave <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(noun) → <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">en <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">slave <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (verb). Note that derivational affixes are bound morphemes. In that, derivation differs from compounding, by which free morphemes are combined (lawsuit, Latin professor). It also differs from inflection in that inflection does not create new lexemes but new word forms ( <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">table <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">→ <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">table <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">s <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">; <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">open <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">→ o <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">pen <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">ed <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Derivation[[image:sylvester_thinking.jpg width="100" height="100"]]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">adjective-to-noun: -ness ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">lazy <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">→ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">laziness <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">adjective-to-verb: -ise ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">modern <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">modernise <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">) in British English or -ize ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">archaic <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">archaicize <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">) in American English and Oxford spelling
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">noun-to-adjective: -al ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">recreation <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">recreational <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">noun-to-verb: -fy ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">beauty <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">beautify <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">verb-to-adjective: -able ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">manage <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">manageable <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">verb-to-noun (abstract): -ance ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">deliver <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> → <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">deliverance <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">verb-to-noun (concrete): --er ( <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">write <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">→ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">writer <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> A prefix is a letter or a group of letters that has special meaning and appears in front of a word. Prefixes are added to some root words to create new words. Words do not always have a prefix. By learning some key prefixes you will learn the meanings of many words without using a dictionary. Sometimes you may recognize a letter or group of letters as a prefix, but find that it does not carry the meaning of the prefix. For instance, look at the word internal. It has nothing to do with the prefix "inter," which means between. Check out the prefixes below. They are broken up by their meanings:
 * [|Not] || [|A Number] || [|Where] || [|When] || [|Together and Apart] ||

**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Prefixes That Mean "Not" (Negation) Or The Opposite **  <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">**Prefixes That Mean "A Number"** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">**Prefixes That Mean "Where" Prefixes That Mean "When" Prefixes That Mean "Together and Apart" ** A suffix is a letter or a group of letters that has special meaning and appears at end of a word. For example, by adding suffixes to the root word "danger" the following words can be formed: danger ous, danger ously, and danger ousness. Suffixes can change the part of speech of a word and its meaning. For instance, adding the suffix "y" to the noun "dream" forms the adjective "dream y " ( "dreamy" full of dreams; given to dreaming or fantasy ).
 * Suffixes **


 * [|Noun] || [|Adjective] || [|Adverb] || [|Verb] ||

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">**Common Noun Suffixes** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Common Adjective Suffixes <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **
 * Common Adverb Suffixes**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Common Verb Suffixes**

**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Mixed **
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">e.g. base with <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**both prefix and suffix** Adjectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> uncomfortable, unavoidable , ** unimaginative ** , inactive , semi-circular Nouns: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> disappointment, ** misinformation ** , reformulation

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Word formation
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Formal written English uses nouns more than verbs. For example, **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> judgement **rather than judge, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** development ** rather than develop , <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** admiration ** rather than admire.

There appeared to be evidence of differential //treatment// of children. This is reflected in our //admiration// for people who have made something of their lives, sometimes against great odds, and in our somewhat disappointed //judgment// of those who merely drift through life. All airfields in the country would be nationalised, and the government would continue with the //development// of new aircraft as recommended by the Brabazon Committee.

Associated with nominalisation is the occurrence of prepositional phrases, introduced by // of //:

judgment //of// those treatment //of// children development //of// new aircraft

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** -tion ** is the most common suffix used in this way. For example: **<span class="example" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">alteration, resignation. ** However others are: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**// - // ity ** ability, similarity, complexity ; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** -ness ** blindness, darkness, preparedness ; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** -ment ** development, encouragement ; **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -ship ** friendship; **// - //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> age  ** mileage; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** -ery ** robbery, bribery; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** -al **  arrival;  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** -ance ** assistance, resemblance.


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 * <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center; vertical-align: super;">ACTIVITIES THAT CAN BE DONE TO TEACH THESE ITEMS IN CLASS **

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO TEACH PACKETS OF VOCABULARY**

__Tent cards.__ Take a vocabulary set. As class activity, pair the words (choose which to pair with which by general agreement). Ask the students in groups of 4 to make tent-shaped cards (i.e. bent over like a tent), and write one of the paired words on each side of the ‘tent’. Place them between the players. The game lies in remembering which word is on the hidden side. These tent cards could be robust and reusable if you make them with self-adhesive memo paper, and so stick words on a tent face. They could be coloured attractively and kept in sets. For example sets of adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, time words etc.

__Learning by association.__ Put together a verb from a verb set with a word from a vocabulary set in a memorable way. The same word could be used, lets say, 4 times. This works best when the pupils have a verb list and vocabulary list open before them for free association. The verbs could go in one tense. The verbs could be freely taken from a page of the glossary or just from 10 indicated verbs. e.g. parts of the body + verbs Her hands cried. Her hands laughed. Her eyes sank. Her eyes spoke. Her body fell. Her body sang. ** Activity for Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make a stack of prefix cards and suffix cards on the table with a group of 3 or four students. One card is turned over and they start the timer for 2 minutes. They have to write every word they can think of with that prefix or suffix. After 2 minutes each person shares the words they have created. For every word that a student has that someone else has not thought of they receive one point. Of course, if the word does not make sense or if the prefixes and suffixes are not used correctly the word does not count. >> Attach the petals to the stem and display their completed flower on a bulletin board.
 * From green or autumn colored paper, they cut leaves on which they write with marker, all the words they have found for that root, one leaf per word.
 * Have them glue the leaves to the trunk and display the trees on a bulletin board.
 * For the Greek stems, have them cut a flower stem from green paper on which they write the Greek Stem with black marker.
 * From brightly colored paper, they are to cut flower petals on which they write all the words they have found for their stem.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For more root word worksheets click here [|Vocabulary.com]

For prefix board game <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Activity sheet for expressing opinions

For more vocabulary building lesson plans and game ideas http://www.proteacher.org/a/132439_Vocab_Games.html





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