Saturday 31 May 2008

Word Formation

This week we started working on prefixes and suffixes.
Remember:

A prefix is a group of letters which you can add to the beginning of a root word to change the meaning of the word.
e.g. mis + fortune = misfortune

A suffix is a word ending. It is a group of letters you can add to the end of a root word. e.g. walking, helpful

A root word stands on its own as a word but you can make new words from it by adding beginnings (prefixes) and endings (suffixes).

Here are some games for you to practise. Good luck and enjoy them!

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,

There were very good games, BBC it's a great page!
I liked the game, it would help us while we are learning sufixs and prefixs in class. There were some very easy, i get to the C level in both with 90 % and 100 %.
Hope you add more games to the blog.

See you,

Shany M

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
I played the last one first.
it was a little tricky because sometimes there were sufixs and prefixs but it was good.
I am going to play the second one know.
Let´s see if the same thing of the last time you posted lots of games happens again.
Kisses
Valerie P.

Anonymous said...

Dear Miss Ale,
I played the second game I LOVED IT.
Great idea of the quiz!!!
I got a 90%!
Lets see if it goes that well in the first one.
Kisses
Valerie P.

Anonymous said...

Hello Miss Ale,
I finished playing the first game.
It was like the second one.
But I liked the quiz.
Want to know the best part of all???
... I had a 100% in that quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kisses
Valerie P.

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale, I liked very much the games. They were fun and I learnt from them.
Sofia S.

Anonymous said...

Miss ale the one of the prefix was my favorite of the 3 I took a 10/10 I helped you a lot to learn it clearly and I think it was very fun.
clara.r.

Anonymous said...

miss ale, I played the game only of preffix and I was good, but more a less.It s a great idea to link it to the BBC page, it is really funny.

Bye

Maxi B

Anonymous said...

In the exercise 2 I think that I had the prefixes very well in my head and tehn with it I mixed all! So I think I have to practice some more!... Try to put more games of BBC because they are very fun and at the same time you learn from them! So...See you..

Agus.T!!

Anonymous said...

Miss ALe the 4 games were supper a little easy. It was a joke but well it serve me and this week i'm going to participite in class because i KNow Thank You
INes G.

Anonymous said...

Hello Miss Ale
I think that the suffixes and prefixes are very useful( in useful ful is the suffix right?) because they change the word and we can understand it better. I didn´t know they were called like that until you told us and we started practicing them. I enjoyed a lot working on the blackboard with the word respect. We thought of many suffixes and prefixes. I played the first game and I got a 10/10 and in the second one I took a 8/10.
See you soon,
Barbie M

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
In prefixs i took a 90/100, the one I took wrong was the one of the PRE-WAR I put there non o0f those words but it was before!
This game was really good because we all like quizes, and this kind of games! Thank you for putting them!
kiki

Anonymous said...

Hi miss ale, I play only the game on preffix and I have fun. I got a 100% in that game!!!!!!!!!!!!
BYE FACUNDO G

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
in suffix i didn't come so well I must say, because really I made a mistake, I thought it was before, so i really made it bad! But I will continue practising!
kiki

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
I think this game is great because it helps us practice in a very succesful way and also in a very fun way!!! I think that it is very important for us to recognize and know very well our PREFIX and SUFIX and also our ROOT WORDS because it will help us in many different ocasions and it will do our peaces of writing very interesting and we will be including different words that maybe, before, we didn´t use that much...
WELL, I THINK IT IS WAS AND WILL BE A VERY FUN AND USEFULL IDEA!!!
BYE BYE
THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING IT MISS ALE!!!!
I ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!
CAMI W.

Anonymous said...

Miss ale!
In the game of PREFIXES in the most hard level I got a 100%!!
I think I know this quite much!!!!
and I like it! well miss ale, I hope you have a great week!
agus.c

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
The prefixx catch never end, until a lot off time when it said GAME OVER i don't really know if that was that I lost... But that game was fun! I really enjoyed it...But.. I have to ask what does it has to do with CAPERUCITA ROJA!!! ok, never mind, the game is great. I have already the money for the fantasy story!! I am going to take tomorrow morning if I can, because I want to start reading it!! It looks very interesting, maybe another day I can buy the dolphin one. Do you remember it??
see you In class tomorrow
kiki

Anonymous said...

Hello Miss Ale,

I liked the game of prefix and the one of sufix because I only played in those two games!!!

You had a great idea to include the sufix and prefix in a game in the blog because now we can all test our selfs if we payed attencion in the class and if we know sufix and prefix very well and also our knowledge will grow and we will grow bigger and bigger every day!!!!!

In the game of prefix I got 100 percent and in the game of sufix I got 80 percent (in the first level!!!!)

Jajajajajaja!!!

byebye Miss Ale!!!!!

VALENTINA G.

Anonymous said...

Hi Miss Ale good games I took 90 % in the prefix game and 100 % in the sufix game.But the one I liked more was the prefix catch . I am finding these games very useful and fun. We can play studying. The prefix catch was a very good game and I played it a lot until the game was over (I knew because it said GAME OVER). I am going to tell you some thing: my dad always watched BBC WORLD and I found it boring until you posted this games in the blog. great games!!!

bye bye
Thomas D

Anonymous said...

We have been talking about prefixes and sufixes. Great games! Today I went to the book fair, and I bought an appealing book called : "The lives of Cristopher Chant. I started to read it, and until now, it hooks me, I wish I rote like Diana Wynne Jones!
do you like that author? I do!
See you in class.
Andy P.

Anonymous said...

ther very good the games it helped me alot now i am studing for the test
jorge.g

Anonymous said...

Hello Ale I played to the one on sufix and prefix. One was really easy and I goot 10/10.(prefix)but the othr one was a little bit hard and I got 7/7(sufix). I like when you put games like this because I learn a lot. I didn`t know much about prefix and sufixbecause I was absent thet day.

Ramiro T

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale: Now I practice Prefix CAtch, a little difficult but well it is a new subject explained by a computer and also very good expressed. I had to move from a sisde to the other to catch mos t of the apples. THAnk YOu!!!!!!!
INes G.

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale this games are supper I played and I got 10/10. I really like it. Now I now alot more of sufix etc....Hope that you put more games.

Santos d.

Anonymous said...

Hi miss ale it was very fun the second game I loved it I liked the idea Ive got 90 percent see you
Mati k

Anonymous said...

Thank you, I always had a lot of trobel to remember that.
The page was olso very good and because of that post it will be easier for me to remember wich is wich.

Agustin D

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale I played the game of "Prefix catch" and it was a lot of fun! I got 29 prefix!!!! I love this type of games because they are a lot of fun!!! Ale I think it is a great idea to create this page and post this fun games!!
agus.c

Anonymous said...

Hello miss Ale its me Amalia. I am quite confused because today u never taught us prefiz and sufix, on thye other hand now i know what they are!!! I did level A and got all correct. Miss Ale I think that theese coments belong to the pupils of 6th of last year. I hope you tell me if their last years students!!
See you tomorrow!!
Amalia.G