The document discusses prefixes and their importance in language learning. It explains that prefixes are groups of letters added to the beginning of words to modify or extend their meaning. Common prefixes like "un" can change a word's meaning. The document emphasizes that teaching prefixes to kids early on can greatly improve reading comprehension and vocabulary. It also notes that understanding prefixes can help students understand unfamiliar words through context clues. Overall, the document promotes learning prefixes at various stages of education.

1. Learning Prefixes
A prefix is a group of letters attached to the beginning of a root or word (or even group of words)
serving to modify and/or extend meaning. Prefixes generally have an easily understood meaning in and
of themselves, which they apply to
the root word to which they are affixed. For example, “un” is a negative
prefix which will change the otherwise positive word “happy” into
“unhappy”. Learning about prefixes early on is important in that it greatly
improves reading comprehension at all levels. Kids and adults alike enjoy
learning about prefixes through fun word matching games.
Understanding prefixes and suffixes for kids is an important part of learning
English grammar. Just as teaching kids root words is crucial to improving
general reading comprehension skills, so does learning prefixes and using
prefixes greatly increase kids’ vocabulary.
Knowing prefix meanings and prefix definitions also helps students see and
use context and etymological clues, allowing them to make educated guesses
about the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Teaching kids prefixes early on (prefixes for elementary school students)
helps build a strong foundation of parts of speech which will be very useful
later on when taking graduate and professional school entrance exams —
especially since there are many prefixes on the GRE itself. For an early
introduction to be most successful, it should be followed by learning prefixes
in middle school and further reinforced by continuing to study prefixes in
high school.
As numerous suffixes are derived from Greek and Latin roots, ESL students
and teachers can benefit from a multi-lingual approach to the meanings of
suffixes.
Whether learning or teaching prefixes, there are excellent online prefix
resources for creating prefix worksheets as well as prefixes activities and
prefix lists. Fun prefix games for kids are also a great way to embark on
prefix learning.

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Construcción de Vocabulario
Impara il lessico inglese
Apprendre le vocabulaire Anglais
Λειλγιο ΕκμaOηoης Αγγλικwν
Lernen SieEnglisch-Vokabular
Naucz się Angielskich Słówek
Изучайте Английские Слова
İngilizce Kelime Dağarcığını Öğrenin
Вивчайте англійські слова
Научи думички на английски език
Lær Engelsk ordforråd
Lær Engelsk
Invata Vocabularul Limbii Engleze
Naučte se anglická slovíčka
Utöka Ditt Engelska Ordförråd

4. Leer je Engelse Woordenschat
באנגלית מילים אוצר ללמוד
الان ج ل يزي ة ال ل غة م فردات ت ع لم
vUxzsth'kCnkoyh lh[kuk
英語のボキャブラリーを増やそう
เรียนรูค้ำศ
学习英语词汇
學習英語詞彙

5. OUR QUEER LANGUAGE

6. With the English tongue we speak
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me if it’s true?
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of a verse
Cannot cop his horse with worse?
Beard sounds not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow but low is low.
Shoe is never rhymed with toe.
Think of hose and dose and lose
And of goose and yet of choose;
Think of comb and tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll, home and some.
And since pay is rhymed with say,
Why not paid with said, I pray?
We have blood and food and good
Mould is not pronounced as could
Whereas done but gone and lone
Is there any reason known?
Well, in short, it seems to me
Sounds and letters disagree.
Vowel Sounds

7. The vowel “a” has many different pronunciations. In each case, the word on the
left is the keyword to show you how to pronounce the letter “a” in each word in
that group.
Keyword
hat
(short a) back balance attitude majesty
crack gratitude annual passenger
valley caterpillar garage baron
companion alligator damp bamboo
may
(long a) courageous major alias status
razor baby famous lady
unable crazy accommodate taste
patience capable crayon nation
bit
(short i) village image palace necklace
purchase orange signature fortunate
accurate certificate savage bondage
air
(circumflex a) care aware square various
dare scare aeroplane stare
swear prepare farewell Aquarius
are
(broad a) star barred marble garden
bar alarm artist bazaar
carve card farm chart
Reading Exercises

8. 1. Many squatters wanted water and demanded it.
2. The man says she has bananas and some vegetables.
3. My father can’t change his accommodation .
4. The famous lady will alter the awful cottage.
5. The postman saw a drama at the cinema and it made him stay awake later.
6. The artist was alarmed when he wasted the chalk.
7. Walk faster as it is half past two.
8. The captain and the sailor praised the waiter.
9. The mailman failed to deliver the mail in the rain.
10. In Britain, certain curtain materials is a bargain.
11. The chauffeur was in the audience and he laughed at the comedian.
12. My aunt came from Austria in the autumn.
13. The pauper said the authorities were the cause of his poverty.
14. The maiden said the tailor was in jail.
15. In the restaurant, the author had sausages and cauliflower.
DIALOGUE 1
A. Good morning.
B. Good morning, sir. What are you going to have this morning?
A. I’d like to have pineapple juice, scrambled eggs, bacon and toast.
B. And what do you want to drink: coffee, tea or milk?
A. A cup of coffee, please. And bring me a glass of water too.
B. Do you want cream in your coffee?
A. Cream but no sugar.
DIALOGUE 2
A. Hello, Ted. Are you going to have breakfast now?

9. B. Yes, I am, but not much. I’m not very hungry this morning.
C. What are you going to have, sir?
B. A donut and a glass of milk please.
C. Would you like some fruit juice first? We have pineapple juice, calamansi
juice and orange juice.
B. Do you have guyabano juice?
C. We’re out of guyabano juice.
B. Never mind. Just bring me a donut and some milk.
C. Your order will come in a minute, sir.
All of us know the story of Easter Sunday. // It was the story of light over
darkness, /life over death.// It was the vindication of a seemingly
unreasonable faith//; it was the glorious resurrection of a Leader,/ only
three days before defeated and executed like a common felon.// Today,/
on the commemoration of that Resurrection,/ we can humbly and without
presumption declare our faith and hope in our own resurrection,/ our own
inevitable victory.//
We, too, shall rise.// After we have paid the price of our redemption, /we
shall return to show the scars of sacrifice/ that all may touch and believe. //
When the trumpets sound the hour/ we shall roll aside the stone before
the tomb and the tyrant’s guards shall scatter in confusion.// No wall of
stone shall then be strong enough to contain us,/ no human force shall
suffice to hold us in subjection;// we shall rise in the name of freedom /and
the East shall be a light with the glory of our liberation.//