W O R KS H E E T 7 A B2

DOES YOUR LOVELESS LOVER

LOVE LOVELY
LOVE NOVELS?
DEVELOP A PASSION FOR LEARNING. IF YOU DO,
YOU WILL NEVER CEASE TO GROW.

Word formation is something that is going to help you enhance your vocabulary in a great way!
Today, we are going to learn how in 4 easy steps:

1 Make sure you really know what part of speech a word is

By the way, what is...
A verb: ____________________________________

A noun: ____________________________________

An adjective: ____________________________________

An adverb: ____________________________________

WHAT IS IT?
Mark (vb) for verbs; (n) for nouns; (adj) for adjectives and (adv) for adverbs.
Some words have more than one correct answer.

go ______ life ______ worse ______ know ______

tall ______ gradually ______ worst ______
simple ______
never ______ often ______ air ______
fast ______ honestly ______ milk ______ simply ______
sleep ______ car ______ good ______ responsible ______
well ______ classroom ______ math ______
better ______ die ______ see ______ serious ______
good ______ day ______ ironically ______ calculation ______
best ______ book ______ great ______
guitar ______ lion ______ lazy ______ calculator ______
teacher ______ discipline ______ sadly ______ eat ______
teach ______ Blendex ______ cold ______
seriously ______
library ______ bad ______ fork ______
live ______ badly ______ life ______ permanent ______
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2 Learn the most common suffixes

A suffix is a group of letters placed at the end of a word in order to
make a new word.

From nouns or adjectives, we can make verbs by adding

these suffixes to them:

-ate, -ise/ize, -en, -fy

origin - to originate legal - to legalize wide - to

widen just - to justify

From verbs or adjectives, we can make

nouns by adding these suffixes to them:

-ance, -ence, -(at)ion, -(i)ty, -ism, -ness,

-ment, -or, -er, -ist

intelligent - intelligence create - creation

social - socialism work - worker

From verbs or nouns, we can make adjectives

by adding these suffixes to them:

-able, -ible, -al, -ic, -ed, -ing, -ive, -ful, -ish,

-less, -ous

drink - drinkable alcohol - alcoholic color -

colorful end - endless

From adjectives, we can make adverbs by

adding these suffixes to them:

-ly, -ally, -award(s)

quick - quickly romantic - romantically back

- backward(s)

3 Learn the most common prefixes.

A prefix is a group of letters placed at the beginning of a word in order to make a new word.

We use them in all kind of words (verbs, nouns, adjectives or adverbs) and some of the most common are:

pro-, pre-, re-, ex-, sub-, in-, im-, ir-, un-, mis-, under-, over-, anti-, super-

pay - prepay fresh - refresh logical - illogical mature - immature possible - impossible regular -
irregular order - disorder likely - unlikely
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4 Let your creativity fly!
In Pairs, try to get as many words as you can from the word given. Don't worry about being right or wrong. JUST TRY!
Then check them with your teacher.

social active civil sex create

sociable
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produce person accept rational real
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necessary formal true nation
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conscious argue class belief signify
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vary moral like sense value
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TO LIVE A CREATIVE LIFE WE MUST LOSE OUR FEAR OF BEING WRONG