Lesson Plans: Prefixes & Suffixes

Negative prefixes before AWL vocabulary for EAP classes

Prefixes and suffixes with opposite meanings memory game.

Meanings of prefixes and suffixes presentation

Making antonyms of personality adjectives jigsaw and two speaking tasks, including word formation with un, im, in, ir and dis.

Students practise adding suffixes to country words to make nationality adjectives with two fun matching words with the same endings card games, a slow one based on pelmanism/ the memory game/ pairs, and/ or a fast reactions one based on Snap.

Personalised speaking practice of the language of personal preferences and country and nationality words with a fun lying game, including a coin game variation.

Affixes to make opposites jigsaw activities, with academic vocabulary and Cambridge Proficiency Use of English versions.

Antonyms with different prefixes to discuss and then remember - good for academic writing and opinions practice in advanced classes.

Nouns that take two prefixes with opposite meanings jigsaw task, good for academic vocabulary and C2 level classes.

People's roles nouns endings and subject questions practice.

A fun card game based on Othello to help memorise different forms of words, with academic vocabulary and Cambridge Proficiency Use of English versions.