Unit 7: Career changes
Past perfect tense
Select a unit
- 1Pop-ups
- 2Hidden talents
- 3Can't buy me love
- 4Travellers' tales
- 5The colleague from hell
- 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7Career changes
- 8Art
- 9Project management
- 10The dog ate my homework!
- 11The diary of a double agent
- 12Fashion forward
- 13Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14Extreme sports
- 15Food fads
- 16Me, my selfie and I
- 17Endangered animals
- 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19I'm really sorry...
- 20Telling stories
- 21Fakes and phrasals
- 22Looking to the future
- 23Becoming familiar with things
- 24From rags to riches
- 25Against the odds
- 26Our future on Mars?
- 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28Dodgy dating
- 29Annoying advice
- 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
Session 1
What's the difference between smokeless and smoke-free? These are the two suffixes we're exploring in this session. Join us for 6 Minute Vocabulary and lots of practice activities
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Activity 3
More suffixes
Revise -ee, -able, -ible, -ness, and job suffixes
Learning what prefixes and suffixes mean can really help you improve your vocabulary. We revised prefixes in Unit 6 of this course. Now we're going to help you feel more confident with suffixes too.
We've already taught some prefixes in our Lower Intermediate course. For example, in Unit 1 we looked at:
1) ee = creates a noun meaning 'person who receives an action'
- employee, interviewee, trainee
2) able = creates an adjective meaning that the subject can do something OR that something can be done to it
- excitable, loveable, breakable
3) ible = a different spelling of -able
- responsible, visible, terrible
4) ness = creates a noun which describes a quality or state
- happiness, politeness, kindness
In Unit 10 of our Lower Intermediate course, we looked at job suffixes - things you add to words to make them job titles.
5) job titles ending in –er
- presenter, teacher, train driver
6) job titles ending in –or
- actor (some people say actress for female actors), translator
7) job titles ending in –ian
- librarian, politician, optician
8) job titles ending in –ist
- journalist, receptionist, dentist
Barreeffama kana dubbisii shakala kana xumuri
To do
A loveable but excitable dog. A breakable vase. It sounds like it will end badly! Can you fill in the gaps in the story with the correct words, even if you haven't seen them before?
Woof, woof, smash
6 Questions
Even if you don't know all these words, try to use your knowledge of suffixes to fill the gaps
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Activity
Even if you don't know all these words, try to use your knowledge of suffixes to fill the gaps
karaarra buusu
We want to describe the state of being darkQuestion 1 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Even if you don't know all these words, try to use your knowledge of suffixes to fill the gaps
karaarra buusu
We're looking for a word which means the same as 'staff'Question 2 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Even if you don't know all these words, try to use your knowledge of suffixes to fill the gaps
karaarra buusu
It's so expensive that it is 'without a price'...Question 3 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Even if you don't know all these words, try to use your knowledge of suffixes to fill the gaps
karaarra buusu
Someone who investigates is an... ?Question 4 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Even if you don't know all these words, try to use your knowledge of suffixes to fill the gaps
karaarra buusu
This one has both a prefix and a suffixQuestion 5 of 6
Gargaarsa
Activity
Even if you don't know all these words, try to use your knowledge of suffixes to fill the gaps
karaarra buusu
This one's a job titleQuestion 6 of 6
Excellent!Great job!Carraa badaa!Qabxii argatte:
End of Session 1
Well done. We hope learning suffixes has filled you heart with happiness. Or at least made you feel they're not so terrible! See you in Session 2 when we talk about...
Session Vocabulary
Suffixes
-less = 'without' the noun before
- worthless (not having worth), tasteless (having no taste)
-free = 1) 'without' the noun before 2) can mean the noun before is 'not allowed' in an area
- pollution-free (having no pollution), car-free (describes an area where cars are not allowed)
-ee = creates a noun meaning 'person who receives an action'
- employee, interviewee, trainee
-able = creates an adjective meaning that the subject can do something OR that something can be done to it
- excitable, loveable, breakable
-ible = a different spelling of -able
- responsible, visible, terrible
-ness = creates a noun which describes a quality or state
- happiness, politeness, kindness
Job title suffixes
–er (presenter, teacher, train driver)
–or (actor, translator)
–ian (librarian, politician, optician)
–ist (journalist, receptionist, dentist)
