The document provides examples and activities about clipped words. Clipped words are formed by shortening words through deleting syllables without changing the meaning. Several types of clipping are defined including back, fore, middle, and complex clipping. Students are given tasks to identify clipped words, provide the full forms, match clipped words to their meanings, and use clipped words in sentences.

1. Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words
(clipped) based on given context clues

2. Pronounciation Drill:
Words with zh sound
Asia business association

3. Recall about compound words:
Mark slung his backpack over his shoulder and ran. The bus
company had just introduced a new bus route. Over the cliffs in the
distance, Mark could see the sea sparkling. With a smile, he paid for
his ticket and sat down. On the drivers lap there was a newspaper
with a bold headline reading ‘Burglar Caught’. At the back of the
bus, a commotion started up with two teenage boys arguing. Over
the bridge, the bus traveled on until it pulled up at Mark’s stop.
Below the deep water in the canal, fish swam in the murky depths.
Turning down a side alley, Mark reached his front door and took out
his key. From the back lawn the dog was barking a welcome, and
Mark was very glad to be home at last.

4. Strategy that develop creative or higher-order thinking skill:
1.How did Mark pay his ticket?
2.What are compound words mention in the selection?
3.How are headline, newspaper and backpack formed?
-the side alley, bus company, and back lawn formed?
-the higher-order, by-stander, and well-prepared formed?

5. Game -The pupils are pre-group into three. As the teacher show different
science terms like veterinary doctor, science idea, laboratory
equipment, chemistry subject, and abdominal muscle, a member from
the group will put the words into correct basket labeled closed, opened,
and hyphenated compound words. The pupil who correctly put the word
into the right basket will get a score.
Manages learners behavior by applying positive /non-violent
discipline
What do you feel everytime you win in a game?
Is it good to brag out your achievement to your classmates or friends?
What character trait you must possess when you win in a game or
contest?
Is it nice to have a humble friend?

7. Notice the italized shorten words. Let the pupils guess its original word.
-Some big company spends a lots of money on ads.
-Many of the teens nowadays like to watch sci-fi TV series.
-I go to the gym every afternoon.
-Give me a kilo of rambutan.
- Show me a sample of the school bags before I order.

8. What are the types of Clipping?
Types of Clipping
1. Back clipping- is the loss of one or more syllables at the end of a
word.
Example:
dormitory- dorm( back clipping) A large room containing many
beds especially in a boarding school or university
2. Fore clipping- refers to the omission of one or more syllables at the
beginning of a word.
Example:
taxicab –taxi (fore clipping) A kind of land transportation with 4
wheels.

9. 3. Middle clipping (Syncope) retains the middle part of a word,
getting rid of the beginning and ending parts.
Example:
refrigerator- fridge ( middle clipping) A piece of kitchen
equipment which uses electricity to preserve food at cold
temperature.
4. Complex clipping- is the shortening of a compound word by
preserving and combining its initial part (or parts syllables)
Example:
Sitcom- situation comedy

10. Activity 1:
Give the original word of the given clipped word based on its
meaning. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. Gent=a man of refinement
a. Genealogist b. gentleman c. general agent
2. Grannie/Granny=mother of your mother or father
a. grandmother b. grandfather c. granary
3. Coke=carbonated drink flavored with extract from a Kola nuts.
a. coconut b. cocaine c. coca-cola
4. Vet=a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
a. Veterinarian b. veteran c. vegetarian

11. Activity 2:
Read the meaning of each clipped words and give its original word.
Write your answer on the space provided for.
1. prom=a formal dance held for a school class toward the end of the
academic year._____________
2. mic=a device that is used for recording sounds or for making your
voice louder when you are speaking or singing to an audience.
___________
3. Vet=a doctor of animals. ___________
4. grad=a holder of an academic degree or diploma ___________
5. lab = a place equipped for experimental in studying a science or for
testing.

12. Activity 3:
Identify the clipped word in the sentence. Give its
full form.
1. How did you find the questions in Science exam?
2. John rides in a mountain bike to the hill.
3. Grandma began painting when she was a teen.
4. My brother used to stay in a dorm near the
school where he studied.
5. The schedule of my plane flight is today, 8:00 in the morning.

13. Group Activity:
Base 1- Give the meaning of the following clipped words.
a.fridge b. phone c. dorm
Base 2- Clip the following words:
a.veterinarian b. science fiction c. decaffeinated.
Base 3- Use the following clipped words in a meaningful sentence
a. gent b. coke c. granny

14. Clipped words are often used to shorten word/words for
their convenience. Refer to words formed by deleting one
or more syllables from a larger word or phrase without
changing its meaning.

15. Direction: Infer the meaning of the following clipped words by matching
below. Use an arrow to connect the answers.
gator A.an aircraft that has fixed wings and
powered by propellers or jets.
plane B .a land mass that is higher than
the hills.
auto C. person who travels beyond
the earth ‘s atmosphere
mount D. thick- skin ned, long- bodied,
aquatic animal
E. usually four –wheeled vehicle designed
astro for passenger transportation.

16. Assignment:
List down 5 clipped words and write the meaning.