Topic 2 : Prefix & Suffixes

Prefix and Suffixes,


Prefixes are affixed before and suffixes after a base word or word stem to add information, it can also changes the meaning of the root word, turn it into positive or negative side meaning to the root word.


Prefix,
in other words, "prefix" simply refers to an attachment before or in front of the root word.


example, 


1. able, the attachment that can be add to this word is dis-able = disable
  
    by adding 'dis' to able, the meaning of it became to be unable to do or to act in the normal physical ways. 


Suffix,


Similarly, "suffix" refers to an attachment after the end of an existing word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending,


example, 


1. able, the end attachment that can be add to this word is abil-ity = abilitiy


  by adding (i)ty to the end of the word, this word became an adjective, which is use to refer to someone ability.


by this you may know that prefix and suffix plays an important part of changing a meaning of a base word.


Prefix and suffixes teaches us a lot about that we must find the root or base word first to make it simple to understand the meaning of a word.


On this week, the class was GREAT, it was fun, we played the game JEOPARDY on learning prefix and suffix. we also played the 'barter system' game where all the groups using their word bank to negotiate between others to collect as many word as we can from the other group. in addition, we had negotiate it in English, so most of us that 'kantoi' on the way had to give our words for free. although we didnn;t win the game but we had fun.


as been told, we had to use 5 of our collected words and put it in a sentence in the blog, so here it is :-

1. negotiation(negotiate) - The negotiation between the mosque's committee was about to make an activity to gather all the villagers to do a bazaar on the Ramadhan month.
2. required(require) - You are required to give more information to settled this agreement to really make it easier for us to to do our job right.
3. preventing(prevent) - Many motivational courses had been done to help preventing the teenagers from having bad behavior on the campus.
4. anti-social(social) - A community is hard to develop if it's people are anti-social, the government are having a hard time to figure how they could get all these people together.
5. capability(able) - This company is no longer have the capability to keep all it's workers as the economy is down in this come of time.

so there they are, the 5 sentences, as promise.  :-)

so thanks again to Miss Cheah for another great week.


Thanks for reading, please leave some comments to keep this blog alive.haha...


sincerely,


Rainbow Groups.

Topic 1 : Contextual Clues - Presentations 1

This topic was quite fun for us.
It teaches us how and the right way to really read and understand sentences.
We can really use it in our everyday life, such as reading the newspaper, novel, and etc.
Its like you don't have to worry if you don't understand the difficult word in a sentences,because there always clues.
Clues that author usually put if there are difficult word being used in a sentence. Before if there are difficult word we students usually just turn the page in our dictionary to get the meaning, ignore the word or meaning or worst, give up reading. That we would just go the next part of the text and hopefully the next text or sentences would give us the slight idea on understanding the last part. But that was before we know how to use 'contextual clues'. just try it, give it more practice, you will feel the differences. :)

Try this for an example that we use in our presentation that day :-

"He was so parsimonious that he refused to give his own sons the few pennies they needed to buy pencils for school. It truly hurt him to part with his money."

right, from this sentences, the difficult word must be, parsimonious. if u really read the whole sentences, you might find a clue there.

Clues
1. 'refused to give'
2. even with his own son??
3. pennies = money(not a lot)
4. and it truly hurt him to part with his money...

there, by then you may find out that this man in the sentences is really STINGY.right? That's just it, the word parsimonious means stingy.

So, by this you may know that there are clues in a sentence that need to be closely read. Its like being a detective..huh?hehe

Finally, we had fun in this class, there are no troubles on finishing and presenting the topic. Although Shakhir and Suhaili is new to the group, but we all did our part together.

Thank you for reading,

Sincerely,

Rainbow Group.