Topic: Derivation

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Show learners the first slide and the four sentences. Ask them to transform the base word in brackets into an adjective by using an affix. Ask them to attempt this individually, then in pairs and finally to share with the whole class. Discuss to see if they noticed any patterns. Show the solutions in the next slide. All these examples use suffixes to change a noun into an adjective that shares the same qualities. Also, note that sometimes spelling changes are required. 

Starter

Remind learners of the words they saw last lesson which can be modified with suffixes and which denote a job or role. Show them the three new examples: what do they notice about them? Discuss with the whole class and reveal the answers in the next slide: all these examples use a suffix to create an abstract noun. If necessary, ask the learners to give more examples and definitions of concrete and abstract nouns. 

Starter

Read these two sentences. Transform the base word in brackets into a more appropriate word class by adding a suffix.

1. Her assistant isn't doing a good job since he's so (forget).
2. We're going down to the river. Is the water (drink)?

What word class did you start with and what did it change into? 

Starter

Read these four sentences. Each one has a base word in brackets you need to transfrom into an adjective by adding an affix.

What do the examples have in common? Where do they differ?

Starter

Read these three sentences. Identify the adjective in each. Discuss if you can add an affixes to change the meaning of the adjective in each sentence. 

1. This is the only weekly magazine.
2. She had a cold and a red nose.
3. My kids always get too active after having sweets.

Here are some ways you could have changed the adjectives with affixes. 

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: