week 36 Lesson 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome to today's class

Today's lesson:

• Check WiP homework and exercises 2+ 3 Solutions
• Do Exercise 5 Solutions + check
• Explanation on Word Formation
• Practice Test Flo-Joe

Goals:

• Know what Word Formation is. 
• Understand how to manipulate words to make new words. 

Word Formation

• Base form in capital letters at the end of the line​
  
• Change to adjective, noun, verb or adverb​
  
• Affixes (HONEST – DISHONESTY)​
  
• Internal changes (STRONG – STRENGTHEN)​
  
• Compounding (RAIN – RAINDROP)​
  
• Several changes (EXPECT – UNEXPECTEDLY)  
  

We'll work on the second one today

Word formation

Verb:             to educate

Noun:           education, to educate

Adjective:  educational, educated

Adverb:       educationally

Try this:

Make nouns, adverbs and verbs from these adjectives:

long       weak       deep     strong     wide     short     warm

Make a table in your notebook to fill in, and for easy checking in a bit

adjective	noun	adverb	verb
long	length	lengthy	lengthen
weak	weakness	weakly	weaken
deep	depth	deeply	deepen
strong	strength	strongly	strengthen
wide	width	widely	widen
short	shortage	shortly	shorten
warm	warmth	warmly	warm

Word Formation

Quiz

Large spiders, _______ from South East Asia, are now being seen in the local countryside.
(ORIGIN)

Collecting garden gnomes might seem an unusual
____ , but many people do it.
(ACTIVE)

Professor Watkins wasn't only an _____ to me, but to thousands of others lucky enough to have met him.
(INSPIRE)

For someone so young, Carl is a very literate and
______ young man.
(ELOQUENCE)

The new year ____ in this area of the country involve dancing and a drink made from melons.
(CELEBRATE)

The ____ of the Rubik's Cube peaked in the early 1980s.
(POPULAR)

This musician's work is very ___ and difficult to understand. Many people say it's just noise.
(CONCEPT)

Tom ____ told us he wasn't coming, then he turns up with two guests! I'm furious with him.
(INITIAL)

The speaker explains how to make our .......................................

function better. (memorise)

We can make....................................................

in our ability to memorise. (improve)

We use a .........................................

of long-term and short-term memory. (combine)

There are several things we can do to recall ....................

. (inform)

We can use word ........................................

to remember a concept. (associate)

The term .........................................

means imagining a picture. (visualise)

You can use different ...........................................

to remember historical facts. (formulate)

Following these tips will improve your ...................................

to remember. (be able to)

Let's practise 

Get out your Chromebook and go to flo-joe.co.uk

Go to FCE B2

Step 2: Practice Tests

Test 1: Word Formation