Prefix and Suffix JSS2 English Studies Lesson Note

WORD FORMATION

CONTENT

Review of Prefix and Suffix

Affixes are small word bits like –s, and -ed added to the base forms of particular words. Affixes are of two main types: prefixes and suffixes.

Prefixes are affixes added to the base form of words.

Examples: 

    Prefix       Word                Word formed

Un            happy                 unhappy

Non           violent                 non-violen

Il                logical                 illogical

Im               patience             impatience

In                 accurate             inaccurate

Dis              connect             disconnect

Mis              calculate             miscalculate

Super           star                       superstar

Over              eat                    overeat

Pre               independence       pre-independence 

Post             primary                post-primary 

Suffixes are added to the end of the base forms. Examples: 

Suffixes              Word           Word formed 

Ness                 happy              happiness 

Ify                    diverse                diversify  

En                     dark                       darken 

Ful                    spoon                    spoonful 

Al                      nation                  national 

Ship                    owner                ownership 

Or                      act                        actor 

Ion                       educate               education 

Hood                   child                      childhood

Less                     power                      powerless

EVALUATION

Underline the prefixes or suffixes in the following words: counterattack, downwards, subhuman, disappointment, assistant, introduction, clockwise, illiterate, maltreat, hypercautious. 

READING ASSIGNMENT

Exam Focus English JSSCE p. 96-100.

 TOPIC: Speech Work

CONTENT: Revising the Sounds: / ae/ and /a:/

Listen and say the following word

/ ae/      /a:/

Ban       barn

Cat          cart

Pat            part

Hat            hart

Bat            bart

As             ask

Pack          park

 EVALUATION 

Write two words for each of these sounds.

TOPIC: Writing 

CONTENT: An Account of Outing for School Magazine. 

Study the instruction of p. 228 and write the account of p. 222 

TOPIC: Vocabulary Development

CONTENT: Prepositions 

Study the prepositions on pp 223-224 and answer the questions on them.

TOPIC: Literature: Sunrise Poetry 

CONTENT: Ajantala

This poem is an ancient Yoruba poem that discusses the mischief of a mysterious child –Ajantala 

EVALUATION

Activities 1-2 p.

READING ASSIGNMENT

Effective English p. 227 (noun phrases).

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTIONS

1.         Write an essay on the title ‘My Future Ambition’.
2.         Give the comparative and superlative form of the following words: a.soon b. hard c. fast d. early e. beautiful 

Change the following sentences to past perfect tense,

• I eat rice and beans before going to school.

Ans. I had eaten rice and beans before going to school.

Now, do these:

1.         Ade sees the plane when it takes off.
2.         John and Nash meet with Ade after the programme. 
3.         My teacher flogs me for coming late.
4.         We take the money before my father returns.
5.         Bode has finished his work before going home. 

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

Exam Focus p. 103 Revision Exercises A and  B.