Word formation

1. What do the following prefixes in bold mean?

1. reaply/redo

2. disbelief/impolite/illogical/unusual/irresbonsible/invisible

3. overcrowded/overvharge

4. underestimate/underweight

5. postgraduate/postmortme

6. ex-husband/ex-President

7. submarine/subway

re-....................................................................................................................

dis-

im-

il-

un- ............................................................................................................

ir-

in -

over-...............................................................................................................

under-.............................................................................................................

post-...............................................................................................................

ex-..................................................................................................................

sub..................................................................................................................

2. What parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, or adverbs) do the suffixes in bold indicate?

1. quickly/backwards

2. employment/happiness/inflation/socialism

3. employee/teacher/conductor

4. famous/sunny/hopeful/brownish/useless

1. ..................

2. ..................

3. ..................

4. ..................

3. Make as many words as you can by combining different parts of the box.

Example: disexcite excite exciteful, excitement

.........................................................appoint...................................................................

.........................................................honest....................................................................

.........................................................patient.....................................................................

.........................................................success....................................................................

..........................................................direct......................................................................

...........................................................kind.......................................................................

..........................................................profit......................................................................

Compound words

1. Complete each compound word with a word from the list.

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1. Make sure you walk on the foot.................., because the road is dangerous.

2. I need to fix these two sheets together. Have you got a paper....................?

3. As I was doing up my shoes, the shoe .......................in one of them broke.

4. On our first day at school, we copied down our time...................................

5. Tom had a hair...........................yesterday and is friends made fun of him..

6. It's really sunnt today, and I've forgotten my sun........................................

7. Could I have a couple of aspirins? I've got a terrible head...........................

8. The bus swerved to avoid a dog and hit a lamp-...........................................

2. Complete each sentence with a compund word made from two words from the list.

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1. I love...................... ...........................films with robots in them.

2. Old Mr Low has a bad leg and always leans on his.......................... ...................

3. David's teacher wrote lots of good things in his ........................... ......................

4. As soon as the .......................... ............................ rings, I jump out of bed.

5. When it's hot, I turn on the ..................... ........................ and it cools the room.

6. Julia invited all her friends from school to her ....................... ............................

7. This house has ........................ ................................ and there is a radiator in every room.

8. If you have any dirty clothes, just put them in the ………… ………… .

3. Match idioms with their meaning

1. Family tree

2. Be/get in the family way

3. Run in the family

4. At your mother's knee

5. The mother of all sth (informal)

6. From father to son

7. Like father, like son

8. Be gathered to one's fathers

1. to be/become pregnant

2. from one generation of a family to the next

3. to die

4. to be a common feature in a particular family

5. a diagram that shows the relationship between members of family.

6. Son's character is similar to that of his father

7. When you were very young.

8. Sth very large

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