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Word families - general
prefixes and suffixes
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Noun suffixes exercise 2
Sixty gapped sentences requiring a noun with verb or adjective form given as cue.
 
 
Noun suffixes quiz 1
Fourteen-question exercise. Students fill in noun suffix from gapped sentences. e.g. 'The develop____ of mobile phone networks in poor countries...'
 
 
Noun and adjective suffixes quiz
Fifteen question short answer quiz. Make the correct noun or adjective form of a word using suffixes.
 
 

 

 
 
 
Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate book cover 
Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate
Unit 9 Attraction  Page 84 
(1) Adding suffixes to adjectives escribing personality to make other memebers of word family; (2) Matching prefixes with stems (personality adjectives) absent + minded etc.
 
Unit 10 Genius  Page 95 
Ss complete grid: nouns, adjectives and example collocations. science, scientist, scientific, scientific research
 
 
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New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book
Module 2 Life's ups and downs  Pages 20 - 21  Forming nouns and gerunds
(20) Noun - verb pairs: research and researh etc. (20) Passage with mulitple choice words: noun /verb/adjective etc, (21) Word completion
 
Module 2 Life's ups and downs  Page 27   Practise
End-of-unit extra practice section
 
Consolidation module 1 - 4  Page 51   forming nouns and adjectives
Form adjectives from given houns
 
 
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New Inside Out Student's Book Advanced
Unit 1 Conversation  Pages 6 - 7  Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus
Discussion + split reading. Vocabulary: word families - students complete a table of the different parts of speech of various items from the reading
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon