Topic: Lessons

Starter

Last lesson, you saw how suffixes could make nouns into people or objects that do a job. E.g.

• write - writer
• boil - boiler

Look at these three other examples. What's different about them? 

• arrive - arrival
• boy - boyhood
• happy - happiness

These three examples all use different suffixes to create abstract nouns.

Starter

In the last two lessons, we looked at how compound words are formed. But there are other ways of making new words and changing word classes. Look at these two words for example:

teacher, unkindness

What do these two words have in common? How are they formed? Are they compound words? 

Both these words:

Starter

Last lesson we saw how adjectives can be combined with nouns to make compound nouns, such as blackbird or red card.

Are these next two examples the same or something different?

• grass-green 
• lifelong

These words are both examples of compound adjectives.

Starter

Look at this list of words. What do they all have in common?

alarm clock, birthday, football, homework, sunflower, weekend

How are these words different to ones like car, dog or house?

These words are all nouns which are made by combining two nouns together.

These types of words called compound words or in this case compound nouns.

Activity 1

Explain to learners that they will continue to look at antonyms, but this time by looking at adjectives. Make sure they understand these key terms by discussing the three example pairs. 

In the next slide, show the learners the five sentences. Each sentence has a gap which can be filled with an adjective or its antonym. Have learners copy the sentences and fill the gap with two possibilities. Reveal the answers and accept any other reasonable options.

Activity 1

Explain that this lesson will continue to focus on antonyms and prefixes, but this time by looking at verbs.

Check to make sure your learners know the meaning of these key terms. Use the two example sentences to help. 

Show the learners the list of six verbs. Ask them to add a prefix to each one to form its antonym. Use the next mix-and-match activity to check answers as a whole class. Bring the cards together to connect and double click to separate. 

Activity 1

Explain to learners that antonyms are pairs of words that mean the opposite of each other. This is very common with adjectives. Show the three examples; then ask learners to come up with three more pairs themselves. Check to make sure they are using adjectives. 

Activity 1

Show the learners the list of three nouns. Ask them to discuss the questions in pairs or small groups. 

After a couple of minutes, reveal the focus of the lesson in the next slide: how nouns can relate to each other by being more general or specific. Use the example to demonstrate. Ask learners if they can think of any other examples. Don't worry if they struggle at this point, as they will see more throughout the lesson. 

Ask learners to make notes on the new terminology, beacuse they will need it for the other activities.