Learning prefixes and suffixes can help students guess the meaning of new or unfamiliar words which is a valuable skill. There are currently 96 worksheets to help you teach students about prefixes and suffixes and give students more practice using them. Let's take a look at a couple of the worksheets from this section. This worksheet focuses on five prefixes and gives students lots of practice with more than thirty sentences. The answer key is provided so it couldn't be easier to use this worksheet in your classes. If you do not want to dedicate that much time to prefixes, you might still want to use some of the sentences from this worksheet. For additional assistance when planning your lessons, here is a table of suffixes that can help you organize your teaching materials. These worksheets are not ideal for every teacher or course but there are others as well. Take a moment to look over some more worksheets. They are all free and printable so you can download as many as you'd like.
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This the first part of a collection of 40 exercises for you to practise wordbuilding in order to help you to be able to get round Cambridge Use of English section of the examination. The exercis ...
In the slides we have a vanishing dialogue and some grammar points about word formation. First of all you ask you students to repeat the dialogue and practice in pair. Then, you go to the second ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising noun formation. From the word at the end of each sentence students are asked to form a noun (by adding a suffix) that fits suitably in the blank space ...
This is the poem to practice regular and irregular plural form of nouns in English...it's excellent for Phonetic lessons. You should be able to read it out loud or use it for narrow transcription. ...
This is a single page Halloween themed phonics worksheet, with a focus on words ending in -at. The learner needs to say the main word "bat" - with the emphasis on the "at" sound and fill in the l ...
Students work in pairs to revise/learn prefixes. One student gives their partner the prefixes on their sheet and dictates the noun, verb or adjective for their partner to match with one of the giv ...
Grammatical rules concerning formation of new words. All the prefixes and suffixes that create nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs et cetera. This worksheet is a presentation of how it works, togeth ...
This is a worksheet for revising word formation at intermediate level. There is a simple activity in which students are asked to form the opposites of the words in brackets by adding one of the p ...
This is a reference worksheet about word formation by means of suffixes in English. It includes a classification of sufffixes according to the grammatical category they create (noun suffixes, adje ...
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, reversati ...
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 ...
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 meani ...
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 pic ...
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 ...
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 a ...
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, ...
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 importa ...
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 ...
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 t ...
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 ...
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, abus ...
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 pa ...
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 a ...
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 FL ...
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, an ...
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