Developing vocabulary p41 Noun suffixes 1 Students look at the words with noun suffixes and decide which of the nouns are people. Key mathematician performer
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Fast finishers Students write a word-formation exercise to test their partner using one of the words from 1, e.g. There are not many employment opportunities in the rural or desert areas of Saudi Arabia. EMPLOY
Homework
Refer students to the Workbook, page 28.
professor journalist
2 Students change the words into nouns or a different type of noun, using the suffixes in 1. Remind them that they may need to change the spelling and that sometimes they can make more than one noun from each word. Key actor, action confidence education, educator electricity, electrician employment, employer
happiness invention, inventor relevance scientist
Teacher development: Language
Listening p42 Warmer Students brainstorm the names of the world’s most famous zoos, e.g. Singapore Zoo, Riyadh Zoo, Smithsonian National Park (Washington DC), National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Berlin Zoological Garden etc. Write questions on the board for students to interview each other in pairs: What are your earliest memories of going to a zoo? What are the good and bad things about zoos? Do you like zoos? What was the last news story you heard about a zoo? 1
SPEAKING In pairs, students look at the photos and discuss how intelligent they think the animals are and say why. Elicit answers from around the class and ask students to give reasons.
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Listening 16 Play the CD for students to listen to a brother and sister talking about the animals and decide if the statements are true (T), false (F) or the information is not given (NG).
Noun suffixes Suffixes come at the end of the word. Just as prefixes (e.g. im-, re-) change the meaning of a word, suffixes change the type of word. They show whether a word is a verb, noun, adjective or adverb. If students learn these suffixes, they will be able to recognise different parts of speech more easily.
Exam success Students read the tips for completing word-formation exercises and then turn to page 76 (Use of English – Word-formation cloze activities) for more ideas.
Teacher development: Student training
Word formation Word formation is one of the keys to success for students at this level. English exams such as the TOEFL, Cambridge ESOL First Certificate, CAE and Proficiency use word formation as a key testing element. Encourage students to record vocabulary in word groups, i.e. with the concept noun, the personal noun, adjective, verb form, etc. 3 Students complete the text with the correct form of the words in capitals. Key a scientists b importance c electricity d invention
e inventor f improvements g disappearance
h darkness i ability j difference
Audioscript A: Did you hear the story about that chimpanzee yesterday? B: No. What chimpanzee? A: Well, there was a chimpanzee in a zoo in Sweden. The thing is that the chimpanzee used to get so tired of visitors to the zoo that he’d throw stones at them. B: What’s so interesting about that? A: The unusual thing was that he collected the stones when the zoo was closed and there were no tourists around. Early in the morning, he looked for stones that he could throw. There were none on the little island where he lived, so he’d put his hand in the water round the island and get them from there. Then he made them into simple discs so that he could throw them better. When he couldn’t find rocks or stones in the water, he made new ones by hitting the floor hard and making the concrete break. And then he’d hide them in special places on the side of the island where the tourists came, so it wasn’t too difficult to find them when he needed them. The thing is that when he did all this, he was really calm and relaxed and yet when the tourists came back, he got nervous and angry and he went straight to get his stones and start throwing them. B: So what does that prove?
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