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Lesson Plan of Inflectional Endings, Compound Words and Prefixes

English Grade VInflectional Endings

Students’ Learning Outcomes

· Recognize specific parts of words, including common inflectional endings, compound words and affixes.

Information for Teachers

· An inflection is an addition:

o To the beginning of a root/base word e.g. ‘re’, ‘im’ or ‘un’.

o To the end of the word e.g. s, es, ed, ful, less.

o In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the amendment of a word to express diverse grammatical types such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation,

· Prefixes: When letters are added to the beginning of a root/base word to make a new word we call them prefixes.

· Suffixes: When letters are added to the end of a root/base word to make a new word we call them suffixes.

· Root word or base word is the main word on which inflection is done or to which we add prefixes or suffixes.

· Inflections are used to :

o Change words into plural form, or

o Change the tense of the word (timing of the action), or

o Make new words.

· Compound Word: When two words join together to make a new word, the new word is called a compound word. Such as apple + sauce, Earth + quake, brain + storm, ear + rings, finger+ prints etc.

· Compound words are written in different ways: sometimes they are written as one word e.g. ‘armchair’, ‘sunflower’, sometimes with the words separated by hyphen- e.g. “gear -change”, “fruit-cake” etc.

Material / Resources

Chalk/marker, flash cards of compound words (e.g. pencil + box, card + holder, foot + ball, lunch + box), you can also bring these real objects in class. Photocopies of worksheets for all students or make the worksheet on a chart paper and paste in class for the students to copy. Make all flash cards for compound words like the sample made below

Pencil

Box

Worm up activity

· Spend five minutes with students and recap their knowledge about words and their different parts. E. g. write ‘blackboard’ and ask if it one word. Students must reply ‘no’.

· Some of them could say it is a compound word as they have learnt this concept in previous class.

· Do the same practice with few more words. E.g. notebook, flashcard, class fellow etc.

Development

Activity 1

· Hold a pencil box in your hand and ask the students to name it.

· Pastes the flash cards of pencil box on the board and ask them as to why do you add a plus sign in both words.

· Students must be able to tell that it is a compound word, because they have done this concept in previous classes.

· Take some examples of compound words from the students to check their understanding and prior knowledge.

· Students write the definition of compound words with few examples in their notebooks.

· Do the activity on worksheet of compound words:

1. I take breakfast daily.

break	+	fast	=	Breakfast
2. My brother and I went to watch the basketball match.
basket	+	ball	=	Basketball
3. I like to use mint flavored toothpaste when I brush my teeth.
tooth	+	paste	=	Toothpaste
4. Strawberries are my favorite fruit.
straw	+	berries	=	Strawberries
5. The beautiful butterfly fluttered around the flowers.
butter	+	fly	=	Butterfly
6. I used to visit this place at every weekend.
week	+	end	=	Weekend
7. Goldfish is my favorite fish.
gold	+	fish	=	Goldfish
8. Peanut is my favorite food.
pea	+	nut	=	Peanut
9. This is my bedroom.
bed	+	room	=	Bedroom
10. Doorbell is ringing by whom?
door	+	bell	=	Doorbell
11. Teapot keeps the tea worm for long time.
tea	+	pot	=	Teapot
12. Apple is useful fruit for our health.
use	+	full	=	Useful

Activity 2

· Tell the students that like plants have roots, our language has root words from which other words grow.

· Inform the class that new words can be made by adding some letters to the beginning of the root words.

· These letters are called prefixes (pre means before and fix means attached. So prefix is attached to a root word to make a new word.)

· Paste the flash cards or draw them on the board. (flash cards for prefixes are given as below:

Prefixes you might need
Un_	Dis_	Re_	mis_	De_	Im_	In_	Il_	Non_	Pre_
__________clockwise				_________behave				_______sense
__________possible				_________place				_______fix
__________happy				_________lucky				_______legal
__________code				_________visible				_______connect
__________fiction				_________mind				_______appear
_________ view				_________prove				_______able
_________play				_________frost				_______wind
_________obey				_________cover				_______honest
_________healthy				_________sent				_______chief
_________serve				_________historic				_______fair

	Answers: anticlockwise, misbehave, nonsense, impossible, misplace, prefix, unhappy, unlucky, illegal, decode, invisible,			Disconnect, non-fiction, remind, disappear, preview, improve, disable/unable, display/replay, defrost, unwind/rewind, disobey, uncover/recover, dishonest,			Unhealthy, resent, mischief, reserve, prehistoric, unfair,

· Ask the students to pronounce the words.

· Students can make more words with each prefix such as ‘re’, ‘un’, and ‘im’:

Re	+	Appear
Re	+	Do
Re	+	Arrange
Re	+	Cover
Un	+	Clear
Un	+	Happy
Un	+	Fair
im	+	Possible
Im	+	Mature
Im	+	Perfect

Sum up / Conclusion

· Ask the students the function of the inflection/prefixes and definition of compound words.

· Give examples of words with prefixes.

Assessment

· Assess students’ understanding through responses and written work.

· Teacher is required to involve the student in solving the problems given in the exercise at end of unit/chapter.

Follow up

· In your notebooks write, 5 compound words and draw pictures.

· Write 5 words with prefixes.