HOW TO FORM AND TO EXPAND WORDS

 

1. UNDERLIGNE THE PREFIXES IN TABLE ONE

ORGANIZE THEM IN TABLE TWO

Table One

1. pro-European

2. television

3. antifreeze

4. hypermarket

5. microchip

6. macroeconomics

7. quadrupled

8. antecedent

9. biannual

10. mistake

11. multinational

12. impossible

13. irrelevant

14. extraordinary

15. monoplane

16. foreman

17. periscope

18. triangle

19. retrospective

20. abnormal

21. co-chairman

22. equivalent

23. overvalued

24. megastore

25. (to) upgrade

26. demilitarisation

27. sextuplets

28. pentathlon

29. trilingual

30. by-product

31. underestimation

32. disarming

33. interactive

34. downsizing

35. sub-normal

35. superconductor

37. atypical

38. post-war

39. prerequisite

40. cooperation

41. infrastructure

42. illiterate

43. restructuring

44. encircle

45. unpaid

46. semiconductor

47. outskirts

48. mid-term

49. polyglot

50. malpractice

51. introspection

52. ultrasound

53. income

54. unisex

55. nonaligned

56. misundertanding

57. disappear

58. ineffectual

59. deregulate

60. minibus

 

Table Two

Contrary

Size (taille)

Position, Situation

Number / Ratio

.

 

 

 

.

.

.

Chronology

Relationship

Wrong / Bad

Repetition

.

 

 

 

.

.

.

 

 

2. FORM NEW WORDS ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN ON THE LEFT
structure

infrastructure

red

.

chip

microchip

wave

.

market

supermarket

conductivity

.

printer

teleprinter

marketing

.

circular

semi-circular

detached

.

standard

substandard

contractor

.

arming

disarming

count

.

founder

co-founder

author

.

mine

undermine

estimate

.

nationalize

denationalize

stabilize

.

 

3. TRANSLATE IN ENGLISH USING ONE OF THE PREFIXES
under-, ir-, over-, sub-, un-, de-, mis-, by-, mal-, en-

  1. fonctionnement
  2. mal gérer
  3. court-circuiter (un intermédiaire)
  4. sous-payé
  5. defaire
  6. décoder
  7. surestimer
  8. mettre en danger
  9. non pertinent
  10. sous-comité
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  2. .
  3. .
  4. .
  5. .
  6. .
  7. .
  8. .
  9. .
  10. .

 

 

4. WRITE THE CONTRARY OF THE FOLLOWING WORDS USING :
im-, de-,dis-,ir-, ab-, un-, in-
  1. resolute
  2. paid
  3. moderate
  4. efficient
  5. normal
  6. stabilize
  7. advantage
  8. dramatize
  9. connected
  10. polite
  11. responsible
  12. settled
  13. mortality
  14. expensive
  15. moral
  16. armament
  17. agree
  18. militarization
  19. embark
  20. perceptible
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  2. .
  3. .
  4. .
  5. .
  6. .
  7. .
  8. .
  9. .
  10. .
  11. .
  12. .
  13. .
  14. .
  15. .
  16. .
  17. .
  18. .
  19. .
  20. .

 

 

5. SUFFIXES

Underline the suffixes in the following words

What type of words are they ?

rechargeable

annual

weekly

successful

tiring

twofold

active

spectacular

waterproof

clockwise

hemophiliac

courageous

dictatorial

endless

alcoholic

Italian

Scottish

Japanese

collapsible

worldwide

formal

whitish

leftist

rainy

yearly

 

 

6. SUFFIXES

Underline the suffixes in the following words

What type of words are they ?

partnership

freedom

booklet

advertising

traumatization

printer

director

growth

complexity

maintenance

cookery

likelihood

creation

handful

bankruptcy

actress

delivery

pesticide

technology

journalist

employee

shortage

kindness

liar

consultant

typist

difference

economics

certainty

idolatry

mileage

assignment

Yorkshire

width

protectionism

 

7. SUFFIXES

Underline the suffixes in the following words

What type of words are they ?

objectively

downwards

sideways

otherwise

anticlockwise

 

8. SUFFIXES

Underline the suffixes in the following words

What type of words are they ?

(to) blacken

(to) generalize

(to) exemplify

.

.

 

 

9. FILL IN THE FOLLOWING TABLES

Noun

Adjective

Verb

Activity

nation

.

.

.

.

private

.

.

.

.

commercialize

.

Verb

Agent

Activity / State

Adjective

prospect

.

.

.

.

.

management

.

.

analyst

.

.

.

.

.

economic

.

.

competition

.

photograph

.

.

.

Noun

Verb

Negative Adjective

Negative Adverb

success

.

.

.

.

avoid

.

.

.

rely

.

.

.

use

.

.

care

.

.

.

 

 

10. ACTIVITIES

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Identify the prefix (1)

Identify the prefix (2)

Form compounds with the suffix -able

Form compounds (1)

Form compounds (2)

Form compounds (3 )