U2_Listening+suffixes

• newEditor
• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

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What would a good video about drawing something have?

Welcome!

Open the lesson by framing listening as an active skill: students listen for meaning, clues, and useful language, not every single word.

Learning goal

I can use listening strategies to answer multiple choice, true/false, and open questions about a fragment on art and creativity.

I can recognise & use common suffixes.

Before you listen

• Read the questions first

• Predict the topic and key words = Speakers at this level paraphrase the correct answer

• Notice names, dates, opinions, and numbers & questions

• Stay calm: you do not need to understand every word

Emphasise that previewing questions helps students listen with a purpose. Link this to a likely fragment about artists, exhibitions, creative processes, or opinions on art.

True/false questions

• Find the key words in the question first

• Listen for whether the statement matches the speaker exactly

• Pay attention to negatives such as not, never, however, and hardly

• Watch for quantifiers such as some, often, and usually

• One wrong detail can make the whole statement false

• key words

• Use words from the fragment when helpful

• Check whether the question asks for a reason, example, explanation, or opinion!

Open questions & while you listen

• Note words about ideas, feelings, and process

• If you miss something, keep listening

• Use context to guess unknown words

A useful reminder: true/false tasks often test precise meaning, so students should compare the whole statement with what they heard, not just a few words.

Grammar: suffixes

• -ive / -ful: => adjective

• -ist / -er: => person

• -tion / -ity: => noun

• -ly: => adverb

A suffix is a group of letters added to the end of a word. It can change the word class and/or the meaning.

• create → creative

• play → player

• beauty → beautiful

Link grammar to listening directly: if students hear an unfamiliar word such as 'creative', the suffix may help them recognise it as an adjective and understand the sentence.

Which suffix turns the adjective happy into a noun?

A

-ly

B

-ness

C

-ful

D

-ment

What does the suffix -er usually show in the word writer?

A

a place

B

an action

C

a person

D

a quality

Negative and descriptive suffixes. Then do 2.3E in Learnbeat

Some suffixes change the tone of a word. If homework is done with care, it is called ‘careful’ work, but if it is done badly, it may seem ‘careless’. In stories, a character who creates a lot of trouble may be described as ‘dangerous’. By noticing these endings, readers can guess meaning more easily and expand their vocabulary.

ful

less

ous

ily

tion

ment

ness

able

ive

What was difficult & easy about the listening? Explain

I can easily use suffixes