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Unlocking Vocabulary Skills

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📚 Part 1: Multiple Choice & Matching

1. When you meet an unfamiliar word in a text, which strategy is most useful to try first?

Use context clues in the sentence

Skip the sentence and move on

Change the topic

Memorise the spelling immediately

2. Which shows the correct morphological breakdown of unbelievable?

un- + believe + -able (not + believe + able)

un- + believ + -able (not + believ + able)

un- + be + lieveable (not + be + lieveable)

3. The prefix photo- comes from which language and what does it mean?

Greek — light

Latin — water

Old English — sound

French — colour

4. Check all that apply: Which actions help you confirm a word's meaning?

Look it up in a dictionary (paper or online)

Analyse prefix, root and suffix

Use surrounding context clues

Guess without checking any resource

5. Match each word (left) with the best meaning or root (right). Draw lines between columns.
A. autobiography
B. subterranean
C. benevolent
D. intermittent
1. kindly; wishing good
2. written account of one's life
3. occurring at intervals; not continuous
4. under the ground

✏️ Part 2: Short Answers & Exit Ticket

6. Break down subterranean into prefix, root and suffix. Write the likely meaning.
7. Use intermittent correctly in one sentence (show you understand its meaning).
8. Name two ways knowing a word's etymology (origin) can help you remember or use the word.
9. Exit Ticket — Write one new word you learned today, its parts (prefix/root/suffix or origin), and one sentence using it.

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