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
Activity 2
Careless?
Or carefree?
Which one are you? Of course, it's possible to be both at once!
In this activity, we're going to test your knowledge of the words that have these suffixes. Sometimes a word can have either -free or -less, but be careful because this can change the meaning, as in careless and carefree.
One hint to help you is that for places where something is not allowed, we usually use -free.
ነቲ ጽሑፍ ብምንባብ ነቲ ስራሕ ዕመምዎ

To do
Choose the correct words to complete these sentences. In some of them, you will see the option of a -ful suffix, which is the opposite of -less.
Less or free?
6 Questions
Finish the sentences with the correct words
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Activity
Finish the sentences with the correct words
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Have a look at the picture on this page. The careless one spilled their breakfast cereal...Question 1 of 6
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Activity
Finish the sentences with the correct words
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One of the prefixes is more commonly used for places without somethingQuestion 2 of 6
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Activity
Finish the sentences with the correct words
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Which one is used for areas where something is not allowed?Question 3 of 6
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Activity
Finish the sentences with the correct words
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The drugs need to have a lot of powerQuestion 4 of 6
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Activity
Finish the sentences with the correct words
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Which word describes someone who has no home?Question 5 of 6
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Activity
Finish the sentences with the correct words
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If something causes no harm, it's... ?Question 6 of 6
Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
Next
Well done. Was that a stress-free experience, or did you make some careless mistakes? Next we're going to revise a few more suffixes:
Session Vocabulary
Suffixes
These three suffixes can be added to nouns to turn them into adjectives
-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)
-ful = with a lot of the noun before
powerful (having lots of power)