Is it Teachable?
Words with the Suffix ‘-able’: Lesson Plan The ability to use suffixes changing a word from one word class to another is what makes our vocabulary flexible and dynamic. It allows us to play around with words and create new…
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DANCE-ISH?
“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave…
ARE YOU TICKETY-BOO?
Guess the Meaning of the Word: Borrowed Words/Loanwords in English Have students guess the meaning of a particular word (that has a certain degree of the ‘wow factor’). TICKETY-BOO? Listen to the song and try to guess the meaning of…
