Lesson 1.9 Chiniese vs English: Morphology/ Word-formation

  • Lesson 1.9 Chiniese vs English: Morphology/ Word-formation

    Learning Objectives:

    By the end of this lesson, students would be able to

    1) Understand the differences and similarities of Chinese and English word-formation

    2) Know the basic rules of word formation in both Chinese and English

    3) Have knowledge of basic affixes in English

    4) Analyze new words with the word-formation knowledge

    5) Improve translation and interpretation skills

    • Lesson 1.9 Assignments

      Do word-formation exercises 1 & 2. Submit your answers in the drop box in PDF.

      Exercise 1 – Add Prefixes and Suffixes to the following words.

      1. Passion____
      2. Remember____
      3. ____conscious
      4. Sense____
      5. ____acceptable
      6. Entertain____
      7. ____representation
      8. Neat____
      9. Invent____
      10. ____interpret

      Exercise 2 – Form Compound Words
      Go through the words in the box given below and use them to form ten compound words.

      Up    table    spend    load    machine   case    make   estimate   over   self

      1. _______ confident
      2. Washing _______
      3. Time _______
      4. Under _______
      5. _______sufficient
      6. Up_______
      7. _______set
      8. Suit_______
      9. _______over
      10. _______thrift