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Negative Prefixes Word Search
This is a Pre-Intermediate/Intermediate word search puzzle for teaching and revision of the prefixes used to form a negative form of an adjective. List of words used in this word search: IMPOLITE,...
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Word Families Worksheet
It is a comprehensive worksheet on the word families and is best for the students of intermediate level and above. It also helps practise the formation of nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs from the...
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Adjective Formation Worksheet
A 2-page worksheet, suitable for intermediate students, on adjective formation. It includes explanations and example sentences at the top of the page followed by 3 exercises in which students are...
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Words That End In -GRY
It's about very rare word ending that appears in only a couple of words in the English language. We have stopped counting how many times we have received this question by email… "There are three words...
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The Greek or Latin Roots for -ped- Quiz
A vocabulary quiz using the Greek or Latin root (-ped-) for decoding some of our English words, for example: biped, tripod, pedicure, peddler,pedal, pedestrian,impediment, quadruped, centipede, and...
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Song Worksheet: Consider Me Gone by Sting
I designed this worksheet when I was training my students at word formation for one of the first modules of a CAE coursebook. It was meant as a follow-up to the activities for word formation at...
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Word Formation Worksheet 2
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising word formation. There are simple explanations followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to form new words using the suffixes and the...
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Word Formation Activity
33 sentences to practise the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. The students have to fill in the blanks with the correct from of the words in brackets, so they have to decide which part...
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Word Formation: Derivatives From The Root Word USE
There are numerous derivatives from the root word USE. This exercise aims at the consolidation of these expressions. There are examples of: useful, useless, usefulness, misuse, abuse, disuse, abusive...
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Word Formation (from Verb to Noun or Adjective)
This worksheet consists of two exercises. In the 1st one the students have 18 sentences with blanks and verbs in brackets. They have to write the correct form of the noun. In the 2nd one they have 17...
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Word Formation (from Noun to Verb or Adjective)
This worksheet consists of 32 sentences to practise word formation. In the first exercise te students have to fill in the blanks with the correct adjective from the noun in brackets. In exercise two...
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Word Formation (from Adjective to Noun or Verb)
More practice with word formation. The students have two exercises: in the 1st one they have to fill in the blanks with the correct noun from the given adejctive; in the 2nd one, they have to give the...
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-IBLE vs -ABLE
This worksheet is about -ible and -able suffixes which are frequently mixed in the words. Although a lot of grammar books do not pay attention to this fact, this grammar rule is of immense importance....
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More Word Formation
This worksheet is the last (so far) of my word-formation series. There are two exercises. In the 1st one the students have to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word in brackets (noun, verb...
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Prefixes: Meanings & Examples
This worksheet provides an overview of the most commonly used prefixes such as mis- un- pre- and dis-. It can be used for a reference for your students. You could also delete the example words and...
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Nouns Derived from Adjectives: Vocabulary Building (for Thai students)
This worksheet tests the ability of students to distinguish between a noun and an adjective. It focuses on using different words as adjectives on one hand and nouns derived from adjectives using a...
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Affixes
This chart will help students in understanding the root of affixes and also the meanings of the branches... it also help the young learns to understand very easily. This chart can be used as a...
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Rules for Adding Suffixes to Root Words
The chart has examples of suffixes and root words and provides some of the basic rules for adding suffixes (ie - "change y to i, then + suffix"). The worksheet asks the students to write the meaning...
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Business Prefixes
This is based on the book Intelligent Business. Since it doesn't really have a workbook and a vast range of revision exercises, I devised this brief worksheet as extra practice for my students. It's...
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Prefixes in English
This is a reference worksheet about wordformation by means of prefixes in English. It includes a classification of prefixes according to overall meaning (neoclassical, negative, measure, reversative,...
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