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-....................................................................................................................(again)

dis-

im-

il-

un- ............................................................................................................(the opposite of)

ir-

in -

over-...............................................................................................................(more than usual)

under-.............................................................................................................(not enough)

post-...............................................................................................................(after)

ex-..................................................................................................................(former)

sub..................................................................................................................(under)

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. ..................(adverbs)

2. ..................(nouns)

3. ..................(a person concerned with)

4. ..................(adjectives)

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

Example: excite - disexcite, exciteful, excitement

appoint...(disappoint, appointee, appointment)..................................................

honest.....(dishonest, honestly, honesty)....................................................................

patient.....(impatient, patiently, patience)..............................................................................

success.....(successful, succeed, unsuccessful).......................................................................

direct.......(direction, directional, directioness).......................................................................

kind.........(kindness, kindly, kindliness)............................................................................

profit.......(profitable, profitability, profitably)..............................................................

Compound words

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

ache clip cut glasses lace path post table

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

air alarm birthday central clock conditioning fiction heating machine party school science stick walking washing

report

1. I love..........(science fiction)............ ...........................films with robots in them.

2. Old Mr Low has a bad leg and always leans o his.....(walking stick)...................

3. David's teacher wrote lots of good things in his ......(school report)..................

4. As soon as the .....(alarm clock)... ............................ rings, I jump out of bed.

5. When it's hot, I turn on the ......(air conditioning)........... and it cools the room.

6. Julia invited all her friends from school to her ...(birthday party)......................

7. This house has .......(central heating)................................ and there is a radiator in every room.

8. If you have any dirty clothes, just put them in the ........................(washing machine)....................................

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

Odp: 1e, 2a, 3d, 4g, 5h, 6b, 7f, 8c.

Aga !

Wysyalm Ci drugi raz to samo tylko ze z kluczem i tłumaczeniem słówek. Mam prosbe sprawdz słowotwórstwo nie wiem czy wszystko jest dobrze. Przetłumaczyłem wszystkiew słówka z ćwiczeń bo nie wiem które znasz. Pozdrawiam i do zobaczenia. Zrobie może cos jeszcze mmoze te mieszane conditionale??

Bartek

Tłumaczenia:

1.

footpath - scieżka

paperclip - spinacz

shoelace - sznurówka

timetable - rozkład

haircut - strzyżenie

sunglasses - okulary przeciwsloneczne

headache - ból głowy

lamp-post - latarnia

2.Scence fiction - sama wiesz

Walking stick - laska

School report - świadectwo szkolne

Alarm clock - budzik

Air conditioning - klimatyzacja

Birthday party - przyjęcie urodzinowe

Central heating - centralne ogrzewanie

Washing machine - pralka

Idiomow nie tlumacze bo na tym polega cwiczenie _

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